Office of Speaker in the 1991 Constitution By Mohamed Azonto Kamara Nov 7, 2013 It is to credit of the All Peoples Congress (APC) party led by Joseph Saidu Momoh that lots of deep thought went into crafting of the 1991 Multi-Party Constitution.There are nuances within that Constitution which were brought about because of the experience which the crafters drew from years of observing the governance of this country. For example, in order to totally forestall any over-ambitious Vice-President (VP) from taking certain actions inimical to what the sitting President might want, the crafters ensured no Vice-President in this Republic can ever be described as the ACTING PRESIDENT. This is why Section 52 of the Constitution says whenever the VP is carrying out President’s constitutional functions in absence or illness of the President, “the Vice-President shall NOT take and subscribe the oath of office of President”. This oath of office of President, is the Presidential Oath which is to be found in the SECOND SCHEDULE of the Sierra Leone Constitution. news.sl/drwebsite/publish/article_200524120.shtml
Posted on: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 19:08:29 +0000
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