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The Majority Leader in Parliament, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu has said that the practice of swearing an elected President at the Independence Square should be discontinued.
Article 57(3) of the 1992 Constitution states that “Before assuming office the President shall take and subscribe before Parliament the oath of allegiance and the presidential oath set out in the Second Schedule to this Constitution.”
The Minister of Parliamentary Affairs says it should be discontinued beginning next year, January subject to security consideration.
“The House has decided that the President-elect must follow the rules, subject to security considerations, be sworn-in in the presence of Parliament, before parliament and in parliament. The parliament of Ghana is proposing that the swearing-in of the president-elect should be done in the present precincts of parliament as it happened during the first inauguration of President Agyekum Kufuor.” he said at the commissioning of the Job 600 annex.
Mostly, Parliament convene at midnight to dissolve and swear in new members and after that they proceed to the Independence Square and swear in the new President that has been elected.
Source: Ghana Waves