MP for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga has sued the Akufo-Addo administration at the Supreme Court over the implementation of some of its flagship policies.
The MP is suing the government for implementing policies such as the Free SHS, Infrastructure for Poverty Eradication Programme(IPEP), Planting for food and Jobs as well as the operations of existing agencies like the Microfinance and Small Loans Center( MASLOC) among others.
According to him, the Akufo-Addo government failed to submit operational modalities for the policy framework of some of these programmes to Parliament. He is, therefore, pleading the court to compel the president to present the pertinent legislation and regulations to parliament.
Mr Ayariga in his suit seeks “an order of mandamus compelling the President or his assigned Ministers
to bring to Parliament appropriate legislation establishing the institutions or agencies to implement the said initiatives, and to have proper regulations presented to Parliament for enactment to govern the exercise of discretionary power necessarily implicated in the implementation of the said initiatives once the Appropriations (No. 2) Act, 2017 (Act 951) was passed by Parliament authorizing the appropriation of the funds.â€
He is also seeking an injunction to restrain the president from implementing the policies until the appropriate institutions and regulations to govern the implementation of such initiatives are enacted and approved by parliament.
“If the court agrees with my position, then naturally, the court will be telling them that, go back to Parliament with regulations on how you are going to implement the nation builders’ corps and spend 600 million this year,â€Â Mr Ayariga said in an interview.
The Ghana Education Trust fund, The Zongo Development Fund, School Feeding Programme, and the National Afforestation Programme were also mentioned in the lawsuit.