Those who claim we should watch in context are getting it wrong.
She stated “The Quran shouldn’t be put in the same box with some other documents.”
She said it twice.
When you’re going to swear an oath in court or public account proceedings, it’s the Bible and Quran. It’s not a “wide mix of some documents like textbook, laws, constitutions etc.”
You exclusively swear the oath by the Bible, Quran or your own faith.
That’s why the panelist specifically called her out, that is it the Bible she’s referring to as other documents? That’s when she admitted that the Bible is also a Holy Book but nonetheless she stood on her point. You can’t mix the Quran with another Holy Book and that’s absolutely correct per their beliefs.
Infact, she even added that a Muslim must perform ablution before handling the Quran to maintain its religious sanctity. Her emphasis was clear, even if the Bible is a Holy Book it cannot be placed in the same box as the Quran or worse even placed on the Quran.
That’s why the panelist insisted that in this context, just like court, they were treated as instruments of work. In court the clerk or officer of the court will handover the Bible or Quran and ask you to place your hand on it and swear.
Wherever these Holy Books are placed after proceedings have ended, you’ll never know. It can be in the office underneath files or placed on a table somewhere.
They’re regarded as legal instruments of work.
A Catholic cannot insist that the Bible be handed to him by a Priest before he can swear an oath. A traditionalist cannot insist that he perform sanctification rights in court or public hearing committees before he can swear an oath.
The point has been established many times. Ghana remains a secular state. You’re more righteous than the state but cannot insist that the state act in accordance with your beliefs.
If so, then there is no such thing as government schools in Ghana.
Schools in Ghana will then be classified into Christian schools, Islamic Schools, Jewish Schools, traditionalist schools and Atheist schools etc
If not for the state, some women will not be allowed to teach in schools, practice medicine or work in public office under authority or in leadership positions because their religion forbids it.
Your point is, you’re enforcing already existing legislations and not a Bill. But as someone with legal knowledge and a legislator too, you definitely know and the courts have cemented into public knowledge that existing legislation can be wrong and can be criticized.
NPP v IGP. The IGP was enforcing existing legislation (Public Order Act) to restrict people from embarking on demonstrations without his permit. Supreme Court struck down those provisions.
Mensima v Ag. Existing L.I stated that one must be part of a cooperative society to be granted a license to be a local distiller. Court struck down that provision.
Martin Kpebu v Ag. Existing legislation that’s the Criminal Procedure Act stated that one cannot be granted bail for certain severe offenses. The Supreme Court over fifty years later struck down that provision.
When your response is that you’re just enforcing an existing legislation, any citizen of Ghana who is adversely affected by that legislation can bring an action to strike it down as breaching the constitution or administrative power.
Even in the case of Ghana Independent Broadcasters Association v NMC, the court struck down existing regulations that sought to censor and restrict the broadcasting content of independent broadcasters.
Infact common sense makes it clear that only existing legislations can be problematic.
In the case of Amanda Odoi v Ag as well as Richard Sky v Ag the court held it is not Bills but existing legislation that can be questioned by citizens in the public interest.
Ghanaians have a right to question, critique and even challenge existing legislation in court. They don’t have to be IT experts to challenge a law you think only affects IT experts.
The law potentially affects every prospective IT specialist and every single Ghanaian who will utilize those services because we will pay the extra costs when these license costs and restrictions are imposed on them, because WE are the final consumers.
Administrative fairness under the Wednesbury case principle mandates that the administrative body will be REASONABLE if it considers all that it ought to take into consideration.
On one hand you were fighting exorbitant DSTV prices for the “people” because it benefited your mandate. On the other hand you’re now imposing exorbitant fees on the same people you’re going to release as coders and such costs will be transferred to every Ghanaian.
The former government did not impose such fees under the existing law because it would’ve been unreasonable and harsh to do so.
You’re known for many things but you’re not known for passing and enforcing unreasonable laws or?
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