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The Executive Director of Afrobarometer, Professor Emmanuel Gyimah-Boadi, has advocated the amendment of Ghana’s 1992 Constitution to reduce the executive powers of the President, as part of efforts to address the “Winner-takes- all” syndrome.
“And we are not going to get rid of crazy partisanship and winner-takes-all, unless we do a fundamental restructuring of our politics and particularly the constitution; so that it does not concentrate power in the hands of the President and the executive branch and, therefore, the governing party”.
Prof. Gyimah-Boadi stated this at the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development’s (CDD-Ghana) Round-table on Rawlings and Democratic Development in the Fourth Republic.
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The Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) has expressed disgust at the manner in which the Audit Service Board is treating Auditor-General, Daniel Domelevo ahead of his return to post.
According to the Director of Advocacy, Dr. Kojo Pumpuni Asante, the board led by its chairman is bent on continuing “this very shameful behaviour.”
The Auditor-General was forced to take is mandatory accumulated leave last year in an unprecedented move which many have criticised as detrimental as far as the country’s anti-graft fight is concerned.
As his 167 leave days elapses, Mr Domelevo is expected to hit the ground running Wednesday March 3, 2021.
CDD boss, Professor H Kwasi Prempeh
Executive Director of the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), Professor H Kwasi Prempeh has said that Ghana will require a representative of an independent third party such as an accredited domestic election observer (or two) also witness the Electoral Commission (EC) sign pink sheets and declaration of results at the collation center or/and, at the minimum, be given a copy of the certified declaration.
This, he said, should be the next area of reform in Ghana’s election administration in order to assure the security, transparency, integrity and finality of the collation process.
Independent third party needed to witness EC-signed pink sheets during polls – H. Kwasi Prempeh
Executive Director of the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), Professor H Kwasi Prempeh has said that Ghana will require a representative of an independent third party such as an accredited domestic election observer (or two) also witness the Electoral Commission (EC) sign pink sheets and declaration of results at the collation center or/and, at the minimum, be given a copy of the certified declaration.
This, he said, should be the next area of reform in Ghana’s election administration in order to assure the security, transparency, integrity and finality of the collation process.
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Four governance experts have urged the next administration to go to Parliament with policies and bills that will reflect the interest of the citizens to ensure cooperation from the opposition for smooth governance.
According to them, elected officials in the next administration must adopt negotiation mechanisms to bring on board the ideas and support of the opposition and make governance workable in the next four years.
The experts, who said this in separate interviews with the Daily Graphic, are the Dean of the University of Ghana Business School, Professor Justice Bawole; the Director of Policy and Advocacy at the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), Dr Kojo Asante; an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Ghana, Professor Ransford Edward Van Gyampo, and a Senior Lecturer at the History and Political Science Department of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Dr Edward Brenya.