MPs Are Not Above The Law But Court Should Forget It, We Won’t Come! - Ras Mubarak

The MP for Kumbungu Constituency Ras Mubarak has revealed that lawmakers are not above the laws of the country but will only respect such laws when applied properly. According to him, the decision of the Ghana Police Service to drag over 20 minority MPs to court smacks of an illegality because they failed to follow due

processes in serving or inviting them. No Member of Parliament is above the law, we have also not received any summons. There is something we call substituted service which requires that when you want to drag someone before the court and you cannot find him or her you publish the details in the dailies it is deemed

you have served that person. In respect of lawmakers, there is a procedure as required by law how they can be invited or served which is supposed to be done through the Speaker of Parliament, he explained on radio. He disclosed that the police without recourse to this norm have perpetrated an illegality because they failed to seek permission from the speaker in order to allow the

over 20 MPs on the minority side to be served. Ask them if they have notified the speaker or sought his permission before dragging this over 20 NDC MPs to court. What they have done is an illegality. Whoever is serving us has gone about it the wrong way. We will be very happy to go to court and explain ourselves but they are not following the right procedure to serve us. We won’t honour such summons, he stressed.