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distinguished himself both in the courtroom and in academia He has practiced extensively in Ghana’s legal system handling several high-profile and precedent-setting cases One of his most notable victories was in Appiagyei-Atua v The Attorney-General of Ghana where he successfully argued against the Government’s COVID-19 Restrictions Act leading to its historic striking out as unconstitutional—a first in Ghana’s legal history he is an outspoken advocate for human rights often representing protesters and individuals facing rights violations His legal activism has solidified his reputation as a defender of constitutional freedoms and justice Srem-Sai is also a respected legal academic He has taught at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) Law School and is currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of Ghana making him a key influencer in shaping Ghana’s legal education and discourse His nomination as Deputy Attorney General and Minister of Justice has been 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Volume 10 - 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.1080307 This article is part of the Research TopicLithospheric Diversity: New Perspective on Structure, Composition and EvolutionView all 14 articles The South China Block is located on the eastern margin of the Eurasian Plate and the western margin of the Pacific Plate The South China Block is currently in a tectonically compressed environment while the Tibetan Plateau is moving eastward and the Philippine Sea Plate is moving westward from geodetic observations The South China Block is an ideal place to revisit tectonic history from the Archean to Cenozoic where its information could be well preserved in the crust we aim to build the crustal and uppermost mantle component of the Seismological Reference Earth Model in South China (SREM-SC) to provide a background velocity model for geological interpretations and fine-scale velocity inversion The S-wave velocity model comes from combining models inverted by ambient noise tomography and surface wave tomography The P-wave velocity model is obtained from converted S-wave velocity and joint inversion tomography The density model is inferred from an empirical relationship with P-wave velocity The Moho depth is obtained by a weighted averaging scheme of previously published receiver function results The P-wave and S-wave velocity models have a grid interval of 0.5° in both latitude and longitude and with a vertical sampling interval of 5 km down to the 60 km depth This work provides the 3-D crust and uppermost mantle structures and a representative reference model beneath South China FIGURE 1. Tectonic background of South China Block. Thick red and blue lines indicate the boundaries of the major tectonic units and basins, after Zhang et al. (2003) and Su et al. (2018). Dash black lines indicate the major faults in the Chinese mainland (Deng et al., 2003) TP: Tibetan Plateau; SGB: Songpan-Gantze Block; QDO: Qinling-Dabie Orogen; NCC: North China Craton; TLF: Tanlu Fault; SB: Sichuan Basin; JB: Jianghan Basin; YB: Youjiang Basin; YC: Yangtze Craton; CB: Cathaysia Block; JNO: Jiangnan Orogen; RRF: Red River Fault; LMSF: LongMenShan Fault Kennett et al. (2013) and Salmon et al. (2013) proposed an Australian Seismological Reference Model (AuSREM) using a large amount of seismological information in the Australian region This 3D seismological reference model not only shows the main structural features of the area but also provides a detailed basic reference model for the future study of the area The AuSREM plays an important role in Australian research and has been cited more than 100 times so far Some velocity models in South China have been obtained by different research methods but there may be significant inconsistencies between various models We propose a basic reference model for South China like the AuSREM It is very helpful to solve the above-mentioned controversial issues The purpose of establishing the crustal and uppermost mantle component of the SREM-SC is to summarize the extensive seismological information and methods in South China over the past decades and to provide 3D seismological reference models in South China and its surrounding areas The crustal and uppermost mantle component of the SREM-SC is grid-based with 0.5-degree latitude and longitude sampling The model grid ranges from 100°E to 121°E in longitude and from 18°N to 35°N in latitude The properties of each grid point are defined by the sedimentary thickness of the basin we created a database of well-constrained results The Vs mainly comes from surface wave tomography The Vp comes from converted Vs and body wave tomography The density is obtained from the empirical relationship between the Vp and density The crustal structure has an important influence on the tomography of the lithospheric mantle and asthenosphere, so the establishment of this model is of great value to improve knowledge of the crustal structure and the seismic tomography work (Salmon et al., 2013) The crustal and uppermost mantle component of SREM-SC provides a reference model for other studies in this area We gathered various types of data and then combined them to construct the 3D seismological reference model for crustal and uppermost mantle structures in South China The data resources for constructing the velocity model mainly come from various joint tomographic inversion results while the data resources for constructing the Moho depth map are mainly from the receiver function studies Nine seismic models were used in this study (A) Data resources of tomography inversion for the S-wave velocity model used in this study (B) Data resources of receiver function for crustal thickness model used in this study Based on the model of CRUST1.0 and the study of Xiao et al. (2021), we establish a sedimentary thickness model in South China. We provide a comparison of the different weighting values for the sediment thickness model in the supplementary material (Supplementary Figure S6), evidencing that the weighting values have little effect on the final model. CRUST1.0 is a global model with less data coverage over South China than Xiao et al. (2021) so we think the weighting value 6:4 is an appropriate choice The final weighting model for the sediment thickness HRef at any grid point is where HX comes from the study of Xiao et al. (2021), HC is the CRUST1.0 model (Laske et al., 2013) There are few studies on the sediments’ seismic velocity distributions presently and so we hope that the sediments thickness of the crustal and uppermost mantle component of the SREM-SC can stimulate the development of more detailed representations of the sediments FIGURE 2. The thickness of sediments in the South China Block is based on the study of Laske et al. (2013) and Xiao et al. (2021) The Moho depth of these studies showed great consistency which may be caused by the different data sets or the details of the method (filters FIGURE 3. Distribution of stations and the Moho depth maps from different studies. (A,B) The He et al. (2014) model, (C,D) the Li et al. (2014) model, (E,F) the Wei et al. (2016) model, (G,H) the Guo et al. (2019) model We do not consider the estimates of the crustal thickness with a standard deviation/difference greater than 6 km in the final model Uncertainties of crustal thicknesses determined from receiver function analysis (A) Differences in crustal thickness for stations with two different estimates (B) Standard deviations of crustal thickness for stations with three or more different estimates (C) Distribution of estimates for those stations with large differences Information about stations with standard deviation/difference estimates greater than 6 km We have collected more than 800 estimates of crustal thickness from receiver function studies (Figure 5A) in South China after removing poor thickness estimations and redundant data. With denser station distribution, we propose a crustal thickness map in South China. The large-scale features of the result (Figures 5B,C) are similar to those of previous results (Li et al., 2014; Wei et al., 2016) we integrate the results of all models so that it can represent the general features of the region The crustal thickness shows a large variation from east to west The crustal thickness along the coastal region of the Cathaysia Block is about 25–35 km The Songpan-Gantze block has a crustal thickness of up to 60 km FIGURE 5. (A)Distribution of receiver function data used in this study. Blue circles: Multiple measurements of crustal thickness; red triangles: one measurement from Li et al. (2014); green triangles: one measurement from Wei et al. (2016); yellow triangles: one measurement from He et al. (2014); black triangles: one measurement from Guo et al. (2019) (B) Scatters of crustal thicknesses; (C) Interpolated results to crustal thicknesses With the development of China’s earthquake observation system South China has good data coverage and these studies used the three-component seismogram records from permanent and temporary stations of the China National Seismic Network deployed in South China The crustal and uppermost mantle component of the SREM-SC is controlled by the S-wave velocity (Vs) S-wave velocity is then used to construct the P-wave velocity (Vp) and density (ρ) fields The velocity anomalies of these models in most areas are consistent The Sichuan Basin shows low-velocity anomalies in the shallow crust due to the thick sediments the low-velocity anomalies are mainly distributed in the Songpan-Gantze Block and the southeastern Tibetan Plateau And the coast of the Cathaysia Block shows high velocities The general consistency between the various models from different methods means that the key features of the structure are comparable which provides a basis for constructing the crustal and uppermost mantle component of SREM-SC we must recognize that there are some discrepancies between the models due to the different techniques and data sets such as the distribution of the low-velocity anomalies in the Sichuan Basin at 5 and 10 km the value of the velocity anomalies in the Songpan-Gantze Block and the Cathaysia Block at 20–60 km depth FIGURE 6. Five published S-wave velocity models at a depth of 30 km with the same color bar from (A) Zhou et al. (2012), (B) Bao et al. (2015), (C) Shen et al. (2016), (D) Han et al. (2021), (E) Gao et al. (2022) The velocity structure on Taiwan island is not reliable due to lacking data in (A) To evaluate the results of our average model we also calculated the difference between each model and the average model at each grid point FIGURE 7. Comparison of the estimated values obtained from the conversion of Vs using the two different approaches. (A) 2D Vp/Vs ratio obtained by receiver function study (He et al., 2014) and (B) the resulting 2D converted Vp. (C) 3D Vp/Vs ratio obtained by tomographic study (Han et al., 2021) and (D) the resulting 3D converted Vp we construct a smooth estimate of the Vp model which provides a good representation of the velocity structure of the study region Velocity and density are two kinds of parameters with good correlation to rock’s physical properties. Feng et al. (1986) proposed a linear relationship between velocity and density suitable for local conditions by referring to the Nafe-Drake empirical relationship and combining it with plenty of seismic data in North China when inversing the 3D potential field of gravity and magnetic. We use the empirical relationship proposed by Feng et al. (1986): 5.2 Velocity structure5.2.1 Horizontal slices P-wave velocity distribution for the crustal and uppermost mantle component of SREM-SC at depths of (A) 5 km S-wave velocity distribution for the crustal and uppermost mantle component of SREM-SC at depths of (G) 5 km regions with a thicker crust usually have lower velocity values than regions with a thinner crust The P-wave velocity and S-wave velocity in the crustal and uppermost mantle components of the SREM-SC at 40 and 60 km depth are shown in Figures 9E,F,K,L the velocity characteristics remain in the same distribution pattern as at 30 km depth the whole study area displayed as high velocities while the southeastern Tibetan Plateau retains some low-velocity characteristics Figure 10 shows five representative vertical cross sections through the crustal and uppermost mantle component of the SREM-SC. The sections at latitude 25°N, latitude 30°N, longitude 110°E, longitude 115°E, and an oblique section extending from the southeast to northwest of the study region are presented in depth slices of S-wave velocity at 30 km depth (Figure 10F) Vertical S-wave velocity sections of the crustal and uppermost mantle component of SREM-SC along profiles (A) latitude at 25°N (D) longitude at 110°E; (E) longitude at 115°E The profile locations are shown in the map view (F) at 30 km Moho depth of this study (solid black line) is also shown in the map By comparing our new Moho depth (Figure 5C) discussed in section 4 with the vertical sections of the S-wave velocity we found a good correspondence between the Moho depth and the Vs of 4.0 km/s We can see from these sections that the Moho depth increases from southeast to northwest and crustal thickness is positively correlated with topography FIGURE 11. Velocity difference of the averaged S-wave velocity model at 30 km depth relative to the models of (A) Zhou et al. (2012), (B) Bao et al. (2015), (C) Shen et al. (2016), (D) Han et al. (2021), (E) Gao et al. (2022) FIGURE 12. Percentage histograms of velocity difference distribution from the average model, calculated at each node, at 30 km depth for (A) Zhou et al. (2012), (B) Bao et al. (2015), (C) Shen et al. (2016), (D) Han et al. (2021), (E) Gao et al. (2022) The dashed gray lines indicate the velocity difference of 0% The velocity obtained by surface wave inversion is generally lower than the average model while that obtained by joint inversion is generally higher than the average model Reasons for these differences may include different types of original data We do not determine which model is better or worse we just attempt to analyze the differences and similarities between the previous models and the newly established average model We propose the crustal and uppermost mantle component of the Seismological Reference Earth Model in South China (SREM-SC) from many published seismic models which can serve as a new reference model for the velocity structure of the South China lithosphere The crustal and uppermost mantle component of SREM-SC is grid-based with a 0.5° sampling in both latitude and longitude and with vertical sampling points at 5 km intervals to the depth of 60 km Each grid point is defined by the thickness of the sediments The S-wave velocity comes from the ambient noise and earthquake surface wave tomography and the information for the P-wave velocity is a combination of estimates by conversion of Vs using the Vp/Vs ratio and the joint inversion The density is inferred from empirical relationships between P-wave velocity and density The Moho depth is obtained by weighted averaging of previously published receiver function results The crustal and uppermost mantle component of SREM-SC describes the major lithosphere features in South China we must recognize the limitations of this model There is no dense P-wave velocity information in the crust of South China and we limit it by conversing from S-wave velocity The model can be improved by adding more information constraints The crustal structure has a significant impact on the tomography of the lithospheric mantle and asthenosphere The establishment of the crustal and uppermost mantle component of SREM-SC is critical for understanding the crustal structure and improving seismic tomography work And it can also be used as the initial model for seismic wave propagation simulation crustal correction for tomography inversion The raw data supporting the conclusion of this article will be made available by the authors Writing—Review and Editing; QT: Data Curation Writing—Review and Editing; L-YF: Resources All authors contributed to the article and approved the submitted version This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants No 41720104006) and the Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS We thank the excellent models provided by Xuewei Bao and Zhi Guo. We thank the models provided by China’s regional seismological reference model achievement center (http://chinageorefmodel.org). We also appreciate Junliu Suwen for his kind help during the revision process. 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Required fields are marked * Volume 10 - 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.1080298 This work is the mantle component of constructing the Seismological Reference Earth Model in South China (SREM-SC) Although there has been a wide range of research for imaging the upper mantle structures beneath South China most of them focus on the large-scale features of the upper mantle and the depth resolution is insufficient for existing surface wave tomography models to distinguish anomalies below 200 km This study aims to develop a 3-D upper mantle Seismological Reference Earth Model in South China based on the prior tomography models The shear wave velocity model comes from the analysis of several seismic surface wave tomography supplemented by body wave tomography and the P-wave velocity model is constructed by the conversion from S-wave velocity The radial anisotropy model is calculated from the SV-wave and SH-wave velocity The Density model of the upper mantle is derived using the empirical relationship linking the density to the shear-wave velocity The model is grid with 0.5° × 0.5° in latitude and longitude and 5 km interval in depth from 60 to 300 km The mantle component of Seismological Reference Earth Model in South China is expected to provide a good representation of the upper mantle structures for further detailed studies The mantle component of Seismological Reference Earth Model in South China provides new insights into upper mantle structures that should be meaningful to reveal the dynamic mechanism and tectonic evolution of South China which were affected by the westward subduction of the Pacific plate compression and relative plate motions of the major tectonic domains (the westward subduction of the Pacific plate the formation of the Tibet Plateau and northward differential movement of the India Australia plate) in the Mesozoic and Cenozoic led to a complex tectonic environment of the SCB thus it’s necessary to establish a reliable and robust velocity model in order to learn more about the tectonic evolution of SCB To better study the lithospheric structure we conduct a joint inversion of body- and surface-wave data to determine a high-resolution Vs model of South China This study aims to build a reliable 3-D mantle component of Seismological Reference Earth Model in South China (SREM-SC) down to a depth of 300 km based on these different styles of prior tomographic models which will capture the major features of the upper mantle in South China and serve as an initial model for further study of more detailed velocity structures or prediction of seismic wave fields and provides new insights into the dynamic process of the lithospheric evolution of the South China The China National Seismic Network Center and domestic research teams (e.g., Zheng et al., 2010) have set up a large number of broadband permanent and portable stations in South China and its surroundings (Figure 2A), providing excellent data resources as the foundation for studying the lithospheric structure. With the numerous earthquakes that occur along the circum-Pacific belt and on the Tibetan Plateau (Figure 2B) these rather dense stations in South China offer a good ray coverage allowing for the achievement of a decent resolution (A) Distribution of permanent and portable seismic stations (blue triangles) in the South China Block (B) Insert map: Configuration of seismic stations and seismic events with Ms > 5.5 for the year 2016 to illustrate the potential ray path coverage the joint inversion of ambient noise and earthquake surface wave tomography can be helpful to improve the structures in the upper mantle Previous tomographic models used in this study Figure 3 and Figure 4 illustrate the selected models with absolute velocities at depths of 70 km and 140 km Only one-half of the models show a velocity structure below 150 km The velocity anomalies of these models in the Yangtze Craton and Cathaysia Block are basically consistent the western Yangtze Craton shows fast velocity while the Cathaysia Block and North China Craton exhibit slow velocity the western Yangtze Craton exhibits high-velocity anomaly and the Cathaysia Block primarily shows low-velocity anomaly despite the diversity of anomalous characteristic The general consistency between the various models from surface waves and body waves means that the key features of the structure are comparable and well defined which provides a basis for constructing the mantle component of SREM-SC we have to recognize that there are some discrepancies between the basic models due to the different techniques and data sets FIGURE 3. Shear wave velocity for the six SV wave models at 100 km depth from (A) Zhou et al. (2012) (B) Bao et al. (2015) (C) Shen et al. (2016) (D) Tang et al. (2022) (E) Han et al. (2021) (F) Gao et al. (2022) FIGURE 4. Shear wave velocity for the three SV wave models at 200 km depth from (A) Zhou et al. (2012) (B) Shen et al. (2016), and (C) Tang et al. (2022) We establish the representative mantle component of Seismological Reference Earth Model in South China (SREM-SC) on the basis of information available in the earlier studies, by imitating the construction process of the Australian Seismological Reference Model (AuSREM, Salmon et al., 2013; Kennett et al., 2013) The major control on the mantle component of SREM-SC comes from the shear wave velocity distribution derived from tomographic results P-wave velocity and density are then conducted from shear wave velocity The mantle component of SREM-SC is specified in terms of absolute velocities and the primary model nodes are spaced at 0.5° apart in latitude and longitude and 5 km apart in depth from 60 km to 300 km The main contribution to the SV distribution is constructed from the available tomography models mentioned in the last section Considering the vary grid sizes and depth intervals of these chosen models we re-interpolate these models to ensure that they share the same range and interval of longitude In constructing the mantle component of SREM-SC we seek to provide a representation where the major features are robust and reliable we adopt the linear combinations of these shear-wave velocity models with equal weight to emphasize such features average these models to obtain the final averaged SV wave model The tendency is for smaller scale features to be obscured We give the model same weight because the used seismic stations were similar which also means that the ray path coverage was comparable SV wave velocity of the mantle component of SREM-SC at depths of (A) 60 km (B) 140 km (C) 220 km other models show slow velocity than the average model FIGURE 6. Horizontal slices at 100 km depth through SV wave velocity showing the relative velocity difference between regional models of (A) Zhou et al. (2012) (B) Bao et al. (2015) (C) Shen et al. (2016) (D) Tang et al. (2022) (E) Han et al. (2021) (F) Gao et al. (2022) and the mantle component of SREM-SC might be attributed to the deep source mantle plume in this area FIGURE 7. SH wave velocity of the mantle component of SREM-SC at (A) 60 km (B) 140 km (C) 220 km, and (D) 300 km depths using the result of Tang et al. (2022) however the majority of them focus on the shallow crust and lack depth constraints on the upper mantle we construct a representative radial anisotropy model in the upper mantle of SCB by combining the previously stated SV wave and SH wave models The definition of radial anisotropy is ξ=VSH2/VSV2 positive radial anisotropy with ξ > 1.0 (VSH > VSV) indicates the effects of horizontal shear flow or a horizontally layered structure whereas negative radial anisotropy with ξ < 1.0 (VSH < VSV) is interpreted as the influence of vertically oriented structures or mineral alignment which suggests the upwelling of mantle materials penetrating the MTZ to thicken the local crust FIGURE 8. Radial anisotropy distribution of the mantle component of SREM-SC at (A) 60 km (B) 140 km (C) 220 km, and (D) 300 km depths, determined from the SV wave velocity of SREM-SC and SH wave velocity of Tang et al. (2022) FIGURE 9. The construction process of P wave velocity of the mantle component of SREM-SC keyed at a map view of 100 km depth (C) The converted P wave model is obtained by combing (A) the averaged SV wave model with (B) the Vp/Vs ratio from the FWEA18 model (Tao et al., 2018), and then averaged with (D) the P wave velocity from USTClitho2.0 model (Han et al., 2021) to build (E) the final P wave velocity of the mantle component of SREM-SC caused by the dehydration of the Paleo Pacific subduction plate detained in the mantle transition zone in the Mesozoic The high P wave velocity beneath Yangtze Craton is usually associated with low Vp/Vs ratio thick lithospheric root and lower temperature P wave velocity of the mantle component of SREM-SC at depths of (A) 60 km (B) 140 km (C) 220 km but there is less direct information on the density of the upper mantle a density scales to a velocity perturbation or absolute velocity are given as follows: The eastern Tibetan Plateau is characterized by low density the density characteristics of the eastern and western SCB are obviously different that is the Cathaysia Block shows low density while the Yangtze Craton exhibits high density the density anomaly of Yangtze Craton is slightly larger than that of the Cathaysia Block The density distribution pattern has a good correlation with the tectonic unit and the Cathaysia Block correspond to low density which maybe related to the subduction of Pacific Plate The density is constructed by quantitative estimation of SV wave velocity which can be used as the initial of the joint inversion of P wave velocity and gravity in the future to concentrate the advantages of the two methods FIGURE 11. The density distribution of the mantle component of SREM-SC at depths of (A) 60 km (B) 140 km (C) 220 km, and (D) 300 km, calculated from the empirical relationship proposed by Kennett et al. (2013) between the density and shear wave velocity. The solid black lines in (A) denote the location of cross-sections in Figure 12, Figure 13 We propose a 3-D representative upper mantle component of Seismological Reference Earth Model in South China (SREM-SC) we employ the SV wave velocity as the primary control P wave velocity and density based on the relationship between variables with SV velocity (2009) believed that the low velocity anomaly was due to the thermochemical effect of the subduction of the Sulu Ocean crust FIGURE 12. Vertical Cross-sections of the mantle component of SREM-SC along profiles (A) W1-E1 at 25°N and (B) W2-E2 at 30°N indicated in Figure 11A Topography is plotted above each cross-section and the red lines are the approximate border of the main tectonic units FIGURE 13. Same as Figure 12, but along profiles (A) S1-N1 at 105°E and (B) S2-N2 at 115°E, indicated in Figure 11A the density differences are modest and do not show much dependence on the high velocity zones as the seismic S-wave result is the only factor that constrain the density structure it is preferable to combine the gravity and seismology inversions in order to reduce the non-uniqueness of inversion and improve the horizontal and vertical resolution we realize that the reference model will be further improved based on new information in the future to better construct the lithosphere and asthenosphere boundaries The specific contributions of each author can be described as follows Writing-Review and Editing; L-YF: Resources This research was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants No The Supplementary Material for this article can be found online at: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2022.1080298/full#supplementary-material Lithospheric thickness 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The use The Appointments Committee of Parliament is vetting Justice Srem-Sai Deputy Attorney-General and Minister for Justice nominee following his nomination by President John Mahama More Stories Here Deputy Attorney-General and Minister of Justice nominee Justice Edem Srem-Sai took his turn at the vetting committee on Wednesday Srem-Sai was the second nominee to face the Appointments Committee after Deputy Minister-designate for Roads and Highways Afenyo-Markin took his turn with the nominee after Srem-Sai had spent over an hour answering questions from the various committee members an interesting moment caught the attention of many during Afenyo-Markin’s turn with Justice Srem-Sai The minority leader after questioning the nominee about his hometown asked him to briefly demonstrate the ‘Akpi’ dance after the nominee ascribed to the dance as part of his tribe’s culture kindly demonstrate the Akpi dance for a bit just for a second,” Afenyo-Markin asked the nominee Bernard Ahiafor overruled Afenyo-Markin’s request asking Srem-Sai not to demonstrate the ‘Akpi’ dance He said the vetting procedure is not a forum for demonstrations but an Appointments Committee mandated to vet nominees You are not going to demonstrate,” Ahiafor stated Afenyo-Markin accused Ahiafor of rudely interrupting the proceedings saying Bernard Ahiafor is acting “capriciously” “Chairman if you decide to be whimsical and capricious it will not advance the work of this proceedings Apart from the constitutional matters involved We’ve had nominees who have spoken their languages,” Afenyo-Markin remarked the Chairman took offense to the Minority Leader’s comment and demanded that he withdraw his comment and apologise “Honourable Minority Leader I take offense to you saying I’m acting whimsical and capricious so I urge you to withdraw those words you use on me,” Bernard Ahiafor demanded But Afenyo-Markin vehemently refused and stood by his comment You were whimsical and capricious in the way you overruled my question Bernard Ahiafor to end the vetting unexpectedly by ordering the Minority Leader not to proceed with asking any question further to demonstrate to you that I am the Chairman of this particular vetting committee that may be your last question,” Ahiafor declared The Appointments Committee Chairman went ahead to discharge the Deputy Attorney-General and Minister of Justice nominee Deputy Minister of Justice and Attorney General Justice Srem Sai has said that the raid on the home of former Governor of the Bank of Ghana Dr Ernest Addison was done in accordance with the law He states that warrants were procured and used for the raid “We take responsibility for the search that happened We want to make it clear that those searches and the mode in which they were done were in accordance with the law Warrants were procured and used,” he told journalists in Accra on Thursday Shamima Muslim had said that there should be no problem once due process is followed in raiding the homes of officials who served in the previous administration This was after she justified the alleged home raiding and arrest of some former officials who served under the erstwhile NPP administration “I’m yet to get to the office to receive a full briefing on the matter but what I can say is that there are some actions going on there are persons of interest who will be now and again invited to help the investigation process and one of the means is to visit the homes of these persons of interest,” she explained She further called for due process to be followed in the arrest of these individuals READ ALSO: Former BoG Governor’s home raid: GHC10k cash, other valuable items missing- Afenyo-Markin alleges Following the raiding of the former BoG’s home and the arrest of Okatakyie Afenyo-Markin and other NPP executives condemned the act highlighting the need for respect of democracy and human rights Shamima Muslim argued that the Minority’s response to the action taken by government is an attempt to evade accountability by trying to sabotage the NDC government She asserted that the NDC government is more respectful in its demand for accountability than what was witnessed under the NPP government referencing unfair treatment experienced by some NDC officials in 2017 when former President Akufo-Addo assumed office we should also be mindful of how the minority would always deliberately position themselves to be avers to any action that government takes in its quest to demand audit and accountability of the outgone government…sometimes exaggerating the issue and trying to deliberately misrepresent the action that is being taken Se was reacting to the allegations that National Security Operatives on Wednesday raided the home of former Bank of Governor Okatakyie Afrifa Mensah was also arrested by National Security Operatives and released later in the evening Ken Ofori-Atta was also allegedly raided by some national security operatives who in addition searched the home of the former minister « Prev Next » Comments (20) Listen to Article Justice Srem-Sai Justice Srem-Sai has said that he stands by his earlier comment that he saw a memo that was written to former A-G Godfred Dame to discontinue the trial of former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) Dr Johnson Asiama who has now been appointed Governor Appearing before the Appointments Committee of Parliament on Wednesday Asked whether he will be able to provide the said memo he said “I am unable to provide evidence of the memo because of my current status…I saw it from electronic trails of the memo and I saw it in my capacity as a private citizen.” the former A-G had challenged his successor Dr to provide evidence of a memo recommending the withdrawal of charges against Bank of Ghana Governor Dame had insisted that no such document existed and asserted that the decision to drop the charges by Mr Ayine was based on falsehoods Ayine defended his decision to discontinue the prosecution against Dr citing a case review that exposed significant weaknesses in the evidence He claimed his reassessment uncovered an internal memo from the prosecution division of the Attorney General’s office which advised former AG Godfred Yeboah Dame to drop the charges due to concerns over the case’s strength Ayine emphasized the memo’s role in shaping his decision “My review of some of the cases revealed fatal flaws in the case of the prosecution I took the decision to withdraw the charges against Mr Johnson Asiama for the simple reason that in the course of my review of the cases my attention was drawn to an internal memo prepared by the prosecutions division of our department for the attention of the former AG which recommended that the charges against him be dropped But speaking at a press conference on Friday I do not recall receiving any such memo from the Prosecutions Division Ayine to produce such a memo for the examination of the public as he has touted same to the public at a press conference as the basis for his impugned actions.” Justice Srem-Sai has told the Appointments Committee of Parliament that his Doctorate Degree Programme abroad was funded by the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) He did his PhD at the University of Leeds School of Law His areas of research included constitutional law enforcement He said it cost the state around 20,000 Pounds a year for the tuition to complete the project Asked for the sources of funding for his programme while appearing before the Appointments Committee of Parliament on Wednesday he said “My PhD abroad was funded by GetFund.” “GETFund has on record all the people and how much they have paid I will recommend that GETFund can provide,” he said when asked whether he would be able to provide evidence of the cost Dr Johnson Asiama who has now been appointed Governor I do not recall receiving any such memo from the Prosecutions Division Ayine to produce such a memo for the examination of the public as he has touted same to the public at a press conference as the basis for his impugned actions.” The big men and their cronies are the ones who always secure the scholsec and the getfund scholarships all the time even though they can afford The sos and daughters of the underprivileged will always be left behind The Minority in Parliament has rejected the nomination of Deputy Attorney General and Justice Minister-designate following a disagreement with the Chairman of the Appointments Committee The dispute arose when Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin requested Srem-Sai to demonstrate the traditional dance a move the Chairman vehemently opposed Afenyo-Markin described the Chairman’s stance as ‘whimsical’ and claimed he was ‘rudely interrupted,’ indicating unfair treatment toward the Minority After a ten-minute suspension of the vetting process the Minority returned and declared their rejection of Srem-Sai’s nomination despite smooth vetting sessions since Monday they have also rejected the nominations of Alhassan Suhuyini Deputy Minister-designate for Roads and Highways who had been vetted already Deputy Minister-designate for Lands and Natural Resources “When it got to me the leader of the caucus Including an interruption by the Attorney General [Dr Dominic Ayine] himself of which you curiously said you never heard It was aimed at obstructing the smooth process of my vetting of the nominee [Srem-Sai] you allowed him to ask a so-called follow-up question “The minority caucus rejects the nomination of the Deputy Attorney General and that the decision of it will be solely yours as majority caucus all other nominees in furtherance of our protest we’re also rejecting them and your decision will remain yours as majority caucus.” Mahama appoints 12-member Bank of Ghana Board Explore the world of impactful news with CitiNewsroom on WhatsApp « Prev Next » Show Video Comments (60) Listen to Article Deputy Minister-Designate for Attorney-General and Justice Justice Srem-Sai has disclosed that his doctoral studies at the University of Leeds School of Law in England were financed by the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) He mentioned that the state incurred approximately £20,000 annually for his tuition This revelation came during his appearance before Parliament’s Appointments Committee on Wednesday “My PhD abroad was funded by GetFund GETFund has on record all the people and how much they have paid I will recommend that GETFund can provide.” This revelation comes in the context of previous reports highlighting that several lecturers benefited from GETFund scholarships intended to support higher education pursuits The vetting of Deputy Attorney General and Justice Minister-designate took an unexpected turn following a heated exchange between the Chairman of the Appointments Committee and Ranking Member Tensions flared after Afenyo-Markin requested the nominee to demonstrate a particular dance the Chairman found the request inappropriate for the setting and overruled the question Afenyo-Markin accused the Chairman of being “whimsical and capricious” in his handling of proceedings The Chairman then demanded that Afenyo-Markin withdraw his remarks Chairman Bernard Ahiafor firmly asserted his authority “To demonstrate to you that I am the chairman of this particular vetting committee The escalating dispute ultimately led to an abrupt end of the vetting session The Minority members of Parliament’s Appointments Committee have rejected the nomination of the Deputy Minister for Justice and Attorney-General Three other Deputy Ministerial nominees who appeared before the Committee today February 26 were also rejected by the Minority The decision was announced by the Minority Leader “I wish to announce a decision we have taken as Minority Caucus of the Appointment Committee We have taken note of the abrupt end of the vetting of the nominee for Deputy Minister of Justice and Attorney-General We reject the nomination of the Deputy Minister of Justice and Attorney-General,” Mr Afenyo-Markin said “Any decision to approve the nominee shall be the sole responsibility of the Majority,” he added we are also rejecting all other nominees vetted today and any decision taken will remain yours,” Afenyo-Markin declared The Minority Leader made the announcement upon resumption of proceedings of the committee after it ended suddenly when Mr Srem-Sai was being vetted Mr Afenyo-Markin had asked the nominee to demonstrate how a dance in the Volta Region (Akpi dance) is performed This request was overruled by the Chairman of the Committee Mr Afenyo-Markin described Mr Ahiafor’s action as “whimsical and capricious” This remark did not go down well with Mr Ahiafor thus he asked the latter to withdraw or cease asking further questions which compelled the Chairman to end proceedings In response to the Minority Leader’s statement to the effect that they have rejected the nominee “I take exception to being described as whimsical When you want to turn the vetting room into a dancing floor “You are even lucky that I have not cited you for contempt.” Srem-Sai’s vetting ends abruptly over Afenyo-Markin’s refusal to withdraw ‘capricious’ comment against Ahiafor The minority are there to do nothing but rather to delay the development and the growth of the economy has defended the recent raid on the home of former Bank of Ghana Governor His remarks follow allegations against National Security operatives for raiding Dr journalist Okatakyie Afrifa Mensah was reportedly arrested and later released security personnel allegedly searched the residence of former Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta The Minority has strongly condemned these incidents Speaking to journalists in Accra on Thursday Srem-Sai took responsibility for the raid and clarified that it was carried out with proper legal authorization Warrants were procured and used,” he stated His comments come amid growing concerns over the conduct of security operations targeting former government officials Police PROs to resume media interactions – Yohuno « Prev Next » Comments (31) Listen to Article Deputy Attorney General and Minister of Justice has underscored that the current tension between the executive and the legislature does not portend a loss for the country Srem Sai’s comments follow concerns that the Speaker of Parliament’s decision to halt the approval process of ministers designate could have an economic impact on the country in terms of governance I think there is no loss with what is happening,” he stated on TV3’s political analysis programme The Key Points on Saturday The constitutional lawyer was of the view that the court cases would rather help the country in the long term as the court will determine if a person performing a constitutional mandate can be prevented by a court writ from doing so we may think that this is costing us but in the long term certain things will not repeat themselves,” he added “We can still discuss this state of confusion without bringing up the LGBT issue because whatever decision they’re taking now whatever the court will rule now in the future will have nothing to do with LGBT,” he said He continued that the outcome of the case “would have everything to do with how the President is supposed to behave when there is a law being passed in parliament whether someone can interfere or interrupt the process of lawmaking.” emphasising that the size of the government is already overbloated He therefore urged President Akufo-Addo to take a cue from Vice President Dr who has said that he will run a lean government with a maximum of 60 ministers when elected president that the House is unable to continue the processes that would lead to the approval of ministers designate vetted by the Appointments Committee In a 62-point letter in response to President Akufo-Addo’s letter on the anti-LGBTQ bill to Parliament noted that the decision has been occasioned by the pendency of an interlocutory injunction filed by the Member of Parliament for South Dayi the receipt of a process from the Courts titled Rockson-Nelson Etse K Dafeamekpor vrs the Speaker of Parliament and the Attorney-General (Suit no J1/12/2024) which process was served on the 19th of March 2024 and an injunction motion on notice seeking to restrain the Speaker from proceeding with the vetting and approval of the names of the persons submitted by His Excellency the President until the provisions of the constitution are satisfied the House is unable to continue to consider the nominations of His Excellency the President in the “spirit of upholding the rule of law“ until after the determination of the application for interlocutory injunction by the Supreme Court,” said Speaker Bagbin Justice Srem-Sai has said that the A-G Dr Dominic Ayine will gather evidence before prosecuting any case He told the Appointments Committee of Parliament during vetting that evidence gathering will be done before persons are sent to court “My boss will not prosecute before the court before looking for evidence,” he said “I will assist my boss on the use of IT to fast-track cases.” Srem-Sai told the committee that he stands by his earlier comment that he saw a memo that was written to former A-G Godfred Dame to discontinue the trial of former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) Ayine to produce such a memo for the examination of the public as he has touted same to the public at a press conference as the basis for his impugned actions.” « Prev Next » Comments (59) Listen to Article Member of Parliament for Suame Deputy Attorney General Dr Justice Srem-Sai has criticised the abuse of parliamentary immunity warning that measures will be taken to correct and prevent its misuse Dr Srem-Sai addressed concerns over the misuse of MPs’ constitutional protection against defamation lawsuits emphasising that this privilege exists to enhance good-faith parliamentary debate rather than serve as a shield for false or malicious commentary “The Constitution grants MPs some protection against defamation suits the purpose of this protection is to enhance the quality of GOOD FAITH parliamentary debate The protection is not a security for false or malicious commentary,” he wrote an unnamed MP had exploited this protection by making false and damaging statements in Parliament creating public disaffection toward individuals an MP has chosen to abuse this protection by using the premises of Parliament to peddle malicious falsehoods which has resulted in creating public disaffection and opprobrium for persons defeats the purpose of the constitutional protection,” he added Dr Srem-Sai also refuted claims that former Bank of Ghana Governor was mistreated during a National Security search of his residence He asserted that Dr Addison had legal representation throughout the process and that the search was conducted cordially and within court-authorised terms “Dr Addison had access to legal counsel and representation throughout the search The search was conducted in line with the terms of the court authorisation; and cordially,” he stated The Deputy Attorney General reaffirmed the government’s commitment to addressing the misuse of parliamentary privileges stressing that such abuses will be corrected to ensure a healthy democratic environment “Such abuse of MPs’ constitutional protection will be corrected and remedied for the healthy growth of our democracy,” he concluded This statement signals a possible legal or parliamentary intervention to ensure that constitutional protections for MPs are not exploited for misinformation or personal attacks « Prev Next » Comments (8) Listen to Article Edem Srem is a journalist and documentary film maker Ghana Water draws water from the Densu River at Densuso for surrounding communities and the Densu River flows to the Weija Dam which supplies water to about half the residents of Accra. You are not far away, mind you the Densu here is polluted with mercury. Image taken 14/10/2024 pic.twitter.com/3F3rFjypCd John Darko has defended Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin over his controversial request for Deputy Attorney General and Justice Minister-designate to demonstrate a cultural dance during his vetting before Parliament’s Appointments Committee Afenyo-Markin’s request was an attempt to connect with the nominee on a personal level and help Ghanaians learn more about him was unexpectedly cut short following a heated exchange between Appointments Committee Chairman Bernard Ahiafor and Afenyo-Markin The dispute arose when Afenyo-Markin asked Justice Srem-Sai to dance arguing that cultural appreciation was an essential aspect of the vetting process It is also about our culture,” Afenyo-Markin stated who accused the Chairman of being “whimsical and capricious” in his handling of proceedings John Darko justified Afenyo-Markin’s approach insisting that it was not a trivial request but a way to introduce the nominee to the public “There are more things we look out for than what you see you may not see this question as unnecessary It will not even be the determining factor of his approval It is just for the people of Ghana to get to know him,” he explained He emphasized that the vetting process goes beyond legal and professional qualifications stating that a nominee’s background and personality are also considered “To determine the suitability of a person you take a lot of things into consideration There was even a question of where he came from… So and he [Afenyo-Markin] went on culture after asking him several other questions and that doesn’t sound like the traditional name you would expect from a person coming from the Volta Region but the Minority Leader and Ghanaians don’t know him he was trying to get to know him by asking him all of those questions.” « Prev Next » Show Video Comments (15) Listen to Article play videoA lineup of changfans and local miners busily working around them « Prev Next » Comments (43) Listen to Article Richard Jakpa The Appointments Committee of Parliament is vetting the Deputy Attorney-General and Minister for Justice a legal practitioner with vast experience in law is the second nominee to be vetted by the Committee