Official correspondence from the Public Procurement Authority (PPA) to the Clerk to Parliament seen by Asaase News shows that a request by the Parliamentary Service of Ghana to the PPA seeking to procure the services of an external solicitor (Messrs Sory@Law) was rejected because the PPA insists that Parliament, as a state institution, ought to rely on the Attorney General’s department for all legal matters.
In a letter signed by Frank Mante, the chief executive officer of the PPA, and dated 12 December 2022, the PPA, responding to a 15 November 2022 request by Parliament to procure the services of Sory@Law, said that the PPA board was unable to approve use of the single-source procurement method to engage the services of Sory@Law.
On the contrary, it thought that the Parliamentary Service, as an institution of state, should use the Attorney General’s Department in all litigation.
“At the 31st Board Meeting of the 5th Board held on Thursday 8 December 2022, the Board could not approve your request to use the Single Source Procurement Method to engage Messrs Sory @ Law as an external solicitor to support Parliament and the Parliamentary Service at a Retainer Fee of GHS5,000.00 and specific fee for the conduct of constitutional cases in the Supreme Court at a fee not exceeding GHC300,000.00,” the PPA’s letter to the Clerk to Parliament said.
“The Board noted that, since the Attorney General is the Principal Legal Advisor, the Board is of the considered opinion that, Parliamentary Service should continue to use the Services of the AG in all legal matters,” the PPA letter to the Clerk to Parliament, Cyril Kwabena Oteng-Nsiah, further said.
During the 2023/2024 legal year, Sory@Law represented Parliament in various cases involving the Parliament of Ghana.
In the current 2024/2025 legal year, lawyers from Sory@Law have filed and represented Parliament in several cases.
The latest is the case of Alexander Afenyo Markin versus the Speaker of Parliament and the Attorney General’s Department, which has to do with the interpretation of Article 97 (1) (g) and (h) and the seats held by four sitting members of Parliament.
Reporting by Wilberforce Asare in Accra
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