The Member of Parliament (MP) for Asawase, Mohammed Mubarak Muntaka, has added his voice to the numerous calls demanding a review of Ghana\u2019s 1992 constitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to him, the constitution has not helped the country to develop the way it ought to have developed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The former Minority Chief Whip believes the 1992 Constitution literally helps in the election of dictators as Presidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Speaking in Parliament on Tuesday, June 20, the lawmaker insisted that the constitution offers the President too much power in the discharge of his duties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI have always said with the greatest respect that the 1992 Constitution only helps us to elect a dictator because if you look at the Constitution, all it does is create a monster president who is a superhuman and does almost everything and a lot of checks have to be corrected in the current constitution,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr Muntaka was contributing to an issue that was raised by the Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu about the delegation of a Vice President as the acting President in the absence of the President.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Unimpressed with the discussions, Mohammed Mubarak Muntaka called for the implementation of the recommendations by the Constitutional Amendment Commission to address such concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI keep asking what is preventing us from implementing the recommendations of the Constitutional Amendment Commission because since 2013, we have virtually iced it, yet a lot of work has been done and it is just left with the implementation and we have left it hanging.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAre we anticipating another amendment seeing that the work the Committee did is very extensive?\u201dhe quizzed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe all know that in a presidential system, checks and balances must exist, but that is a system that has been very difficult for us to do for the past 30 years,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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