[Mishky]

in the constitution, the vice- president is named as the principal assistant without executive powers. Any powers he wields are in his ministerial position, not as vice- president.the national accord and reconciliation act is a product of very special circumstances. The accord is about ‘real’ power sharing between odm and the pnu. The accord from which the national accord and reconciliation act is predicated says power is to be shared between the executive president and the executive prime minister.it therefore follows logically that the prime minister ranks higher than the non-executive vice-president.the leaders should not create a bad situation out of nothing. Government officials are infuriating the public for nothing. The public is likely to suspect that there was nothing in the deal between pnu and odm.the circumstances that created the grand coalition were special. Therefore, parliament should unite in amending the law and standing orders to make the premier answerable to parliament. We are being treated to power games. The games will destroy our expectation that the grand coalition government will work. If they want to respect the accord, then the executive prime minister should rank higher. There should never be a debate on the role of the vice-president. He is a shadow of the president and any attempt to place him above the prime minister is unconstitutional and an attempt to distract the country from the reform agenda