The Workplace of the Speaker of Parliament and the Chief Justice have been excluded from the checklist of high-ranking public officers permitted to utilise sirens and bypass velocity limits.
This got here to mild after a brand new highway site visitors Legislative Instrument (L.I) was laid earlier than parliament.
An modification to the Street Visitors Rules 2012 was earlier met with backlash from Ghanaians.
Regulation 74 of LI 2180 was to allow the becoming of sirens or bells as warning home equipment on particular courses of automobiles, together with these owned by justices of the Supreme Courtroom, members of parliament, and ministers of state.
It was subsequently withdrawn and now reintroduced, excluding provisions that will have allowed MPs, the Speaker of Parliament, and the Chief Justice to utilise sirens and bypass velocity limits.
Highlighting the exclusions on the ground of parliament, the Member of Parliament for Tamale South, Haruna Iddrisu stated it’s fallacious for the Speaker and Chief Justice to be denied these privileges.
“If the Speaker of Ghana’s Parliament just isn’t entitled to a motorcade or police accompaniment, for my part, it’s fallacious. The Chief Justice of Ghana has additionally been excluded from the regulation.
“We will take away ministers and MPs from this provision, however the republic has 4 key personalities: the President, Vice President, Speaker, and Chief Justice. If I had my method, this L.I. can be reconsidered as a result of leaving the Speaker and Chief Justice out of this privilege is inappropriate,” he stated.
The Majority Chief, Alexander Afenyo-Markin additionally expressed concern over the exclusion, arguing that it may hinder MPs in finishing up their duties to the individuals of Ghana.
“Politicians are all the time in a rush to avoid wasting their heads when there’s a disaster however typically we are able to have a collective fall. We all know the challenges we face coming from residence and going to our constituencies. It’s not {that a} Member of Parliament, by advantage of getting a siren, will use it day-after-day,” he argued.