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Speaker’s Final Ruling and Supreme Court Referral Ignite Constitutional Debate
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A major constitutional debate has erupted in Sierra Leone following Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon. Segepoh Solomon Thomas’, ruling on the Constitution of Sierra Leone (Amendment) Bill 2025, and his subsequent referral of a key legal question to the Supreme Court for an opinion. The controversy centres on whether non-entrenched provisions of the 1991 Constitution [...] The post Speaker’s Final Ruling and Supreme Court Referral Ignite Constitutional Debate first appeared on The Calabash Newspaper.
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- The Calabash NewspaperSpeaker’s Final Ruling and Supreme Court Referral Ignite Constitutional Debate