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President John Mills has inaugurated a nine-member commission tasked with the responsibility of reviewing the country’s 1992 Constitution.The commission chaired by Albert Fiadjor, has to, as part of its terms of reference, find out public views on the provisions of the Constitution and make appropriate recommendations to government.The Constitution has served 17 years of Ghana’s young democracy in the Fourth Republic, after years of military take overs.The review of the 1992 Constitution was a major talking point in the 2008 general elections with all the parties pledging to review certain provisions in the binding document they thought was counter-productive to the country’s development.Key among the controversial provisions is Article 78 Clause 1 (which requires that the majority of the President’s ministers be appointed from among members of Parliament), as well as separating the position of the Minister of Justice from that of the Attorney General.Chairman of the commission told Joy News it will receive memoranda and collate views from as many Ghanaians as possible.“We are a quasi-judicial body. In other words we are like a court of law, but strictly speaking not a court of law,” he said, continuing “Our job is to take on everybody’s ideas,” he addedThe members of the Commission include; Osabariba Kwasi Atta II, Paramount chief of Cape Coast; Akenten Appiah Menka, an industrialist; Dr. Nicholas Amponsah, Snr., Lecturer at the University of Ghana, Legon, Political Science Dept.The rest are Sabina Ofori Boateng consultant to the legislative drafting unit at the Office of Parliament; Gabriel Pwamang, legal practitioner; Mrs Jean Mensah, Executive Director at the IEA and Very Rev. Prof S.K. Agyapong, President of the Methodist University College.Story by Nathan Gadugah/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana
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