The row over the removal of Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo will rumble on but a proposal by the Kwasi Prempeh-led Constitutional Review Committee would transfer such decisions to a professional body independent of the presidency...
NEW RULES NEW POLITICS Ghana's politics could be heading for the biggest shake-up since the 1992 return to multiparty elections if the recommendations of the Constitutional Review Committee led by Henry Kwasi Prempeh are adopted by Parliament and a referendum takes place after almost two decades of debate...
All these matters will be on the agenda when the Constitutional Review Committee chaired by Henry Kwasi Prempeh presents its report to Mahama later this month...
An eight-member committee chaired by Kwasi Prempeh of CDD-Ghana is tasked with proposing amendments by mid-2025 focusing on limiting executive power enhancing judicial independence and promoting decentralisation...
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It will be chaired by Kwasi Prempeh a respected constitutional law scholar and Executive Director of the Center for Democratic Development...
‘Nothing good that needs to get done anywhere in Ghana and nothing bad that needs to get undone can happen it appears without the intervention of the President or one of his agents ' argued Kwasi Prempeh Executive Director of the Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) in Accra...
‘We cannot afford to surrender this country and our democracy to the galamsey cartels any more than we can to drug cartels or other mafias ' Executive Director of the Centre for Democratic Development Kwasi Prempeh has said...
‘Ghana's multiparty democracy is actually a de facto one-party state with two rapacious parties taking turns at state capture in a roughly eight-year rotation ' said Henry Kwasi Prempeh executive director of the Center for Democratic Development Ghana (CDD-Ghana)...
Kwasi Prempeh of the Accra-based thinktank the Center for Democratic Development argues a politician-AG should not direct or lead criminal prosecutions but be confined to advising government on policy and reform representing the state in litigation international transactions and negotiations...
His remarks were described as 'disappointingly flippant' by Kwasi Prempeh of the Center for Democratic Development...
'Finally the party in parliament is playing a necessary and appropriate checking and balancing role in our hyper-presidentialist system' said Professor Kwasi Prempeh head of the Ghana Center for Democratic Development...