Deputy Chief of Staff Abu Jinapor says legal issues raised by the Minority in Parliament against the acting Upper West Regional minister Amidu Ishaq have no basis.
According to him, the Deputy Minister for the Upper West Region is not the substantive Regional Minister, "he is just acting and there are no legal issues against that."
Abu Jinapor believes the Minority have no case and he will be happy to hear the legal basis for which they are questioning the position of the Acting Upper West Regional Minister.
He added that he has followed Parliamentary proceedings where deputy ministers were made to hold the fort for the substantive ministers.
Amidu Ishaq cannot act as Upper West Regional Minister
The leader of the Minority in Parliament Haruna Iddrisu has described the order by President Nana Akufo-Addo for the Deputy Upper West Regional Minister, Amidu Ishaq to act in the stead of the suspended Regional Minister, Sulemana Alhassan as unconstitutional.
 
While commending the swift decision taken by the President to suspend the Regional Minister, Haruna Iddrisu stated that it was authoritative that the President does not breach the Constitution in his effort to address the situation.
According to him, the 1992 Constitution of Ghana does not allow for a Deputy Regional Minister to act in the absence of the substantive Minister.
“We welcome the swiftness of the President’s action against the Regional Minister for attempting to frustrate efforts at getting an end to the lawlessness in the country by the masquerading NPP youth in that region and other parts of the country. But the President himself is a respected legal practitioner and must do what is appropriate legally and constitutionally within the meaning of the Supreme Court ruling on the status of deputy Ministers. It is wrong in law and constitutionally for the deputy Minister to be asked to act in the absence of the regional Minister,†Haruna Iddrisu said
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