{"id":9547,"date":"2022-12-07T20:25:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T20:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expressnewsghana.com\/2022\/12\/07\/finance-minister-time-to-listen-to-the-ag\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T20:25:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T20:25:23","slug":"finance-minister-time-to-listen-to-the-ag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expressnewsghana.com\/?p=9547","title":{"rendered":"Finance Minister: Time to Listen To The AG"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><strong>The Attorney General is the only position defined by the Constitution of the Republic, 1992.<\/strong><br>The 1992 Constitution is the Supreme law of the country.<br>No law is above it.Any law in conflict with it, that law is declared null and void.<br>It is the only law that one can be compensated for salvaging its overthrow.<br>Article 88 states the functions of the Attorney General.<br>Among his functions, roles or duties, he is the Government Legal Advisor.<br>He has a huge role to advise the government on all legal matters; Contractual both local and foreign, constitutional, civil, criminal, and all manner of issues in legal remit.<br>It is the only position that comes with its profession or training. For example, every professional can be appointed at any portfolio.A medical doctor can be appointed as a Finance, Education or Energy Minister but not as Attorney General and Minister of Justice.<br>The current Attorney General, Godfred Yeboah Dame, and his team have been very proactive when it comes to government\/state legal matters both domestic and international.<br>The recent victory in Norway in the matter of Government versus a private company in Norway,on the purchase of an immovable property by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.<br>The legal team led by the AG floored their contenders to get some palatable damages for the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"417\" src=\"https:\/\/expressnewsghana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Attorney-General-adjudged-best-Minister-for-2021-Mr-Godfred-Dame.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/expressnewsghana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Attorney-General-adjudged-best-Minister-for-2021-Mr-Godfred-Dame.png 500w, https:\/\/expressnewsghana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Attorney-General-adjudged-best-Minister-for-2021-Mr-Godfred-Dame-300x250.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>He has advised the Finance Minister to be careful on the issue of haircuts on the investments by the population, as part of the Government Debt Restructure Programme.<br>This legal counseling by the AG is a timeous and appropriate.<br>I will not like to retreat the facts of the matter, but just to advise our beleaguered Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Attah to as a matter of fact and urgency, listen to Godfred Dame.<br>Once again, I commend the AG for expertly doing the needful.<br>A society without the law is a chaotic one.<br>Ahmed Osumanu Halid<br>Nima 441<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Attorney General is the only position defined by the Constitution of the Republic, 1992.The 1992 Constitution is the Supreme law of the country.No law [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2342],"class_list":["post-9547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinions","tag-ag-listen-ministrr"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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