Constitutional Review Committee recommends separation of Executive from Legislature 

The Constitutional Review Committee Report has recommended an amendment to Article 78(1) to provide that no Member of Parliament (MP) may be appointed a Minister of State or a Deputy Minister or Regional Minister. 

This was disclosed by Professor Henry Kwasi Prempeh, the Chairman of the Constitutional Review Committee when he presented their report to President John Dramani Mahama at the Presidency in Accra. 

The Committee, which was inaugurated by President Mahama on 19th January, took 11 months to complete its work. 

Prof Prempeh reiterated that one of the areas that was important was the way the relationship between the Executive and the Legislature was organised.  

“There has been a lot of talk around the separation of the two. We have looked at the evidence. Clearly, it works for some countries. We know that in Britain and other places, the entire executive comes from the legislature. That’s fine for them, it’s worked,” he said. 

“We have looked at our evidence, and it does appear that it’s not working quite well here. And since we’re supposed to be doing actionable recommendations, we thought, well, it also has to respond to our specific context.” 

He said the Committee was proposing that what Ghanaians had called a hybrid, which they had run for over 30 years now, which they dispensed with it and separated the Executive from the Legislature; so that they could have a Parliament focused on its task and the executive also on its job. 

President Mahama in receiving the report commended the Committee for the good work done; adding that a Constitutional Review Implementation Committee would be commissioned early next year to start work. 

Source: GNA 

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