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Former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice in the Ernest Bai Koroma Administration Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara (JFK) has shed some light on the possibility of Parliament to function with the main opposition All People’s Congress (APC).
According to Kamara, Parliament would be less functioning with the main opposition.
“Parliament without the APC is a Sisyphean task for Governance.
“For instance, for a parliamentary debate as contemplated by sec. 98 of the Constitution, there has to be the other side,” Kamara said.
He said the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) would need the APC to initiate a debate in the well of Parliament.
“Government can’t debate with itself.
“Hence, without the APC, there will be no debate,” he said.
Days after results were announced by the Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone (ECSL), the hierarchy of the APC party intimated that they will boycott governance due to disagreement with the results.
The party accused the ECSL of lacking transparency while urging them to release results by polling stations across the country.
About a week ago, the APC released a dossier with signatures of their newly elected MPs, mayors and district chairperson planning to boycott governance.
With Parliament set to open on 13 July, the APC which control about 40 percent of total seats remain defiant.
In a ONE PARTY STATE is there no debate?
Was there parliamentary debate when the APC was running a one party state? If there was, this parliament will debate and run with or without APC. APC will not hold the country to ransome with their foolish demands. Forward ever backward never.
Are those refusing to take part not replaceable? What would have been the situation if APC had succeeded in convincing its members not to vote? So, there was not going to be any form of government to rule Sierra Leone? Please you the BOOK PEOPLE educate us! What does the constitution say about such a phenomenon? Or is the constitution silent on this as if those who wrote it could not foresee a situation like this? Please, please, you the LAW People clear the air for us!
Mind you were are now living in an era were no one party state is functionable in a democratic state. This 24th century don’t even think about parliament exist without the main opposition party.