Cabinet is scheduled to meet on Friday, July 10 to finalise the Government’s position paper on the review of the 1992 Constitution of Ghana.
President John Dramani Mahama has announced that once Cabinet concludes its work, his Legal Counsel and the Attorney-General will consolidate the document.
The President said this at the send-off ceremony for two foreign envoys at the Jubilee House in Accra on July 7.
The envoys are:
1. Her Excellency Giger Simone, the outgoing Switzerland Ambassador to Ghana.
2. Her Excellency Berenice Owen-Jones, outgoing Australian High Commissioner to Ghana
President Mahama said, “We’ve gone quite far. Cabinet is meeting on Friday to complete the government position paper. After that, I think the legal counsel and the Attorney-General will take about a week or two to put it all together. (And after that is done, together with the Constitutional Review Committee report and the government position paper, we’ll hand it over to the Constitutional Review Implementation Committee to kick-start the process of the Constitutional Review.”
He noted that while the 1992 Constitution has served the country well, the review will make it serve better in the years ahead.
“The 1992 Constitution has served us very well. It’s been one of our best constitutions, and that is what has been the underpinnings of the Fourth Republic. The Fourth Republic has lasted longer than any other republic in our history. And so, we believe that any tweaking of the Constitution will only go to strengthening it even more and making it a living document to take us for the next 30 years,” he stated.
