A member of the Constitutional Review Commission, Mrs Sabina Ofori-Boateng, has appealed to Ghanaians including chiefs, district assemblies and opinion leaders to make submission to the commission.
She appealed to chiefs, assembly members and other opinion leaders to explain and educate the people on issues emerging from initial submissions to the commission.
Mrs Ofori-Boateng was addressing assembly members, heads of departments, chiefs and other opinion leaders from the Kwahu East District
at a consultation meeting and a durbar on issues emerging from initial submissions to the commission at Abetifi.
She said according to a basic document of the commission, the 1992 constitution embodied many features that sought to foster accountable, open transparent and participatory democratic governance.
But there are flaws and practices that have led to too much power concentrated in the Presidency, thus undermining the system of checks and balances.
Mrs Ofori-Boateng said the executive dominance had impeded the effectiveness of oversight institutions such as parliament and independent institutional commissions, which needed to be amended.
Mr Francis Ashong Obuajo, a Research Officer of the Commission, took the participants through the 44 issues emerging from the initial submission
to the commission and urged them to submit their views on those issues and additional issues they thought could be amended in the constitution.
Some of the issues they went through included a proposal for increasing the tenure of office of the president, to amend article 225 to determine
whether to identify or create a source of funding similar to the common fund to finance the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) and its Commissioners.
Others are the indemnity provisions in the transitional provisions, review of retiring age and pension to allow public officers to retire at the
age of 65 and many others.