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September 21, 2024
A former Supreme Court judge of the Republic of Ghana, Justice Dotse is advocating for Ghana to have either the Presidential system of Government where the president appoints all Ministers outside Parliament or Parliamentary system where all the Ministers are from Parliament.
According to him the current hybrid where the President of the Republic of Ghana appoints majority of his Ministers from Parliament is not helping as majority of the MPs on the Majority side will do everything they can to catch the eye of the President for appointment.
He said this in an interview at a stakeholders’ consultation meeting on the validation of the Constitutional Review Commissions report of the 1992 constitution of Ghana, which is on the theme: “building consensus and promoting ownership for the review of the 1992 constitution”.
He believes that when all the Ministers are appointed outside Parliament, it will give the lawmakers the complete attention to focus on their oversight functions, like we have in America and Britain, adding that in the current hybrid system, Ministers are mostly absent when they are needed to answer questions on the floor of parliament.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com