A former Chairman of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC), Prof. Stephen Adei, has urged the incoming National Democratic Congress (NDC) government to make some remarkable reforms with its overwhelming majority.
He says the government, looking at its numbers in Parliament, will have no excuse to amend the many ills in the constitution which Ghanaians by consensus, have agreed should be changed.
According to him, the core ones which are not entrenched and do not require a referendum to be amended can be done with the two-thirds majority in Parliament.
However, the economist and administrator has advised that the heart of the document that has guided the nation for some decades should not be touched to alter the integrity of the constituti on.
Speaking on Hot Issues on TV3 Sunday, December 22, 2024, the former Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), urged the incoming government to reconsider the Prof. Fiadjoe Commission report which he says by far is one of the best reports ever drafted by a commission to the nation, with regards to the membership composition and the work it did, to amend the constitution.
He advised that the government can tweak many of the things in the report and implement them in the interest of the state.
“I think that Prof. Fiadjoe’s Commission report was one of the best that has been done in Ghana. For the first time it was non-partisan, there was NPP, NDC, they had a good report and I think that we had something to work on.
“Let’s take it, tweak it and quickly, the ones that don’t require referendum, which is not entrenched, they should immediately use their two-thirds majority to quickly tackle those obvious ones that the two-thirds majority can do and then leave the entrenched ones,” he stated.
He, however, advised that the core of the constitution which has guided Ghana as a democratic state over the years should not be touched.
“…I think that they can do a lot and tackle the obvious ones and not touch the core our our constitution, it has served us for these years. But things like the independence of the NDPC, the election of DCEs, I think that they can tweak it but if they undermine the integrity of our constitution, other than those Ghanaians by consensus, through the Fiajoe [Commission] have agreed upon, they will leave to regret it,” he advised.
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