Defeated presidents do not have any legal time limit regarding leaving their official residences but are supposed to vacate their offices and bungalows before in-coming presidents take over from them, Magnus Kofi Amoatey, Chairperson for the Committee on Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, has said.
“There is no grace period for the president, there is not,” he explained in an interview with Class FM.
He indicated that the Presidential Transition Bill stipulates that any outgoing president is supposed to vacate his office before the swearing in of a new president.
He emphasised that the one-month period given to government officials “does not apply to the president and his vice, they have no grace period whatsoever, they are to vacate before the coming into force of the new president”.
According to the Member of Parliament (MP) for Yilo Krobo, the seat of government is the Flagstaff House, and if an ex-president is still there one month after swearing in, “where lies the symbol of authority of the new president?”.
Source: Ghana/AccraFM.com
