Attorney General (AG) Godfred Dame want the annulment of the 2020 Buem Constituency Parliamentary elections. The AG has also proposed that new
Attorney General (AG) Godfred Dame want the annulment of the 2020 Buem Constituency Parliamentary elections.
The AG has also proposed that new elections be held in the Buem Constituency to include Santrokofi, Akpafu, Lolobi and Likpe (SALL).
Speaking on the floor of Parliament on Wednesday, 9 March 2022, the AG noted that holding fresh elections in the Constituency will give the people of SALL the right representation.
Mr Dame said: “It is not in doubt that the MP for Buem does not represent the people of SALL even though the people have been placed there. Indeed, the reason why we have to annul the 2020 Buem parliamentary elections is to ensure that the SALL areas are given the right representation now.”
The AG further noted that the only way to achieve the representation of the people of SALL is to include them newly-conducted elections.
“As far as I am concerned, there is no law that places SALL under the Buem Constituency. It is only C.I 128 that places SALL under the Buem Constituency. There is no other law at all. So the way to go if we indeed want to achieve representation of the SALL people in the lifetime of the Parliament is to ensure that proper areas that have been allocated in the proper constituencies that have been created will be ordering a proper election to include the people of SALL in the Buem Constituency. And we first have to allow that.”
However, reacting to the AG’s proposal the Member of Parliament (MP) for Buem Kofi Adams described Mr Dame’s proposal as incompetence on the part of government.
“This clearly shows that we have an incompetent government that was bestowed on us. This is not the first time we have had to amend our constituency boundaries. In each of those cases, we have never seen this level of incompetence. But this shows that, the government has been incompetent in handling or local government creation of the constituency. But for what he said, I see it as a joke. He was evasive with the real issues that came from his answers. But I am ready for any elections in Buem.”
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