Consumers with the financial wherewithal to buy large quantities of food have been advised to do so because the country will face a food crisis in the coming months.
“Consumers should purchase food staples like maize, rice, millet, and others and stockpile them because prices are going to climb,” the Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana advises.
Dr. Charles Nyaaba, the Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana’s Head of Programmes and Advocacy, gave the suggestion in an interview on 3FM’s Sunrise on Monday, March 14.
Dr. Nyaaba was discussing the rising cost of life and price increases in the country, particularly in the area of fuel.
“The Supreme Court of Ghana has ruled that Standing Order 109(3) of the Standing Orders of Parliament, which was made pursuant to Article 110(1) of the 1992 Constitution, and which provides that a Deputy Speaker or any other person presiding shall not retain his original vote while presiding, is unconstitutional. The full judgement has been made available, and we call on all to peruse the judgement to appreciate the rationale for the decision to declare Standing Order 109(3) of the Standing Orders of Parliament unconstitutional. We sincerely believe that Ghanaians must be made to understand that no one branch of government under our Constitution (including Parliament) is a law unto its own self. Rather, all are subject to the provisions of the Constitution as have been outlined above,” it said.
It said comments by the Minority in Parliament concerning the judgement that it is an aberration of justice and amounts to interference in the work of the judiciary were erroneous.
“It is not for nothing that the framers of our Constitution thought it wise to include Article 2 which deals with the enforcement of the Constitution… The Supreme Court is thus empowered to make orders and give such directions as it may consider appropriate for giving effect, or enabling effect to be given, to any declaration they make,” it said.
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