Protecting the vulnerable: Cause Social Protection Bill to be introduced in Parliament- Law lecturer to Akufo-Addo

A private Legal Practitioner and lecturer at the University of Ghana Law School, Clara Beeri Kasser-Tee has called on the President of the Republic to introduce the drafted Social Protection Bill to Parliament for its subsequent passage by Parliament this year.

According to her, the social Protection Bill needs to be passed to protect the most vulnerable in the society.

She also noted that Social Protection is considered globally as a human right and has a basis in the Constitution, 1992, Article 36 and secured by the international obligation which Ghana is a signatory.

“It seeks to secure both a legal regulatory as well as the financial legal framework for the implementation of Social Protection so that we can capture the most vulnerable of our society assisting that they need to be able to able to exploit the talents that they have.

“…My request to the President or the Executive relates to Article 36 which bothers on the review and passage of the Social Protection Bill. The request is that in line with Article 108 of the Constitution, the President will cause to be introduced in parliament, the Social protection Bill upon consideration of Civil Society input for the review of the Social Protection Bill,” she noted.

Speaking on Newsfile on JoyNews on Saturday, January 15, 2022, the law lecturer also noted that even though various individuals are doing their bits to help the vulnerable in the Society, the passage of the Bill will give us a coherent National legal framework for the provision of social protection.

“So my request today is to the president to cause the Social Protection Bill to be introduced in parliament and hopefully passed this year so that we can have a national coherent legal framework for the provision of social protection,”

“Various individuals have been doing their bit to support other vulnerable people and we congratulate them for the efforts that they make. But we must admit that this cannot be enough because there are only so many people that anybody can help at a time. The country has an obligation to cater for its most vulnerable and we should be interested in the legal framework as well as the institutional framework for the protection of these people,”