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New information coming in reveals that the Supreme Court will deliver a judgment on the constitutionality of the payment of salaries and allowances to spouses of the President and the Vice-President.
A seven-member panel of the court was expected to deliver its decision yesterday but the Registrar of the Court announced in the courtroom that the judgment had been adjourned to next year.
The case is a consolidation of two different suits filed by two National Democratic Congress (NDC) Members of Parliament (MPs) — Mr Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor, South Dayi, and Dr Clement Apaak, Builsa South, and the Bono Regional Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Kwame Baffoe alias Abronye D.
It is the case of the plaintiffs that it was unconstitutional for the committee created to determine salaries, allowances and emoluments of Article 71 of the 1992 Constitution office holders to have recommended payments of salaries to spouses of the President and Vice-President.
According to the plaintiffs, spouses of the President and Vice-President were not part of the Article 71 office holders and were also not even recognised under the 1992 Constitution for them to be paid salaries.
NKONKONSA.com
