Elected Presidents Will No Longer Be Sworn-In At Independence Square – Majority Leader

Osei Kyei-Mensah Bonsu, Majority Leader has indicated that the practice of swearing in newly elected presidents at the Independence Square will no longer happen.

Speaking at the commissioning of the new Job 600 Annex, he said, “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.”

Article 57(3) of the country’s 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.”

Source: GhanaFeed.com