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+ A fellow at the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), Professor Stephen Kwaku Asare says the directive by President Akufo-Addo to former Auditor-General, Daniel Yao Domelevo to go on retirement, is one that taints his legacy even before he ends his second and final term as president. According to Professor Asare, most of the Civil Society groups in the country are unhappy with the president’s directive because “the action is unconstitutional and unusual.” He said the Pres...

Winner Takes All: Gyimah-Boadi Calls For Restructuring Of 1992 Constitution

Prof. Gyimah-Boadi: Amend 1992 Constitution to curb president’s powers March 5, 2021 Professor Emmanuel Gyimah-Boadi, Executive Director of Afrobarometre, a non-profit organisation, 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. He said this at the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development’s (CDD-Ghana) in Accra recently, during a  roundtable discussion on former Pr...

LIBERIA: NAYMOTE Holds Two-Day Training Session On Local Gov’t Act 2018 LIBERIA: NAYMOTE Holds Two-Day Training Session On Local Gov’t Act 2018 Mr. Eddie Jarwolo, Head of Naymote  Naymote Partners for Democratic Development, Liberia’s premier democracy advancement institution has begun a two-day training session on the Local Government Act 2018 as part of creating awareness on the Act. The institution is using its recently published simplified version of the LGA 2018 to deepen citiz...

705 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 ...

Photo credit: Daniel Domelevo and Akufo-Addo Source: Facebook In reaction to the president’s letter, the former Auditor-General, Daniel Domelevo has for the first time made a public comment since the directive was issued. In a Facebook post sighted by YEN.com.gh, he took the words from the Methodist Hymn Book (MHB) 10 titled, Now Thank Thee Our God to share his thoughts. The post came few moments after the letter from the president indicating his retirement popped up on the internet. If the l...

+ 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...

First Deputy Speaker and Member of Parliament for Bekwai, Joseph Osei-Owusu The Bono East Regional Youth Wing of the opposition National Democratic Congress has petitioned the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, to expel the First Deputy Speaker and Member of Parliament for Bekwai, Joseph Osei-Owusu, from the lawmaking house. The call by the opposition party membership comes at the back of a recent statement made by the MP. “During the last State of the Nation’s Address of...

Liberia: Analysis of the results of the special senatorial election and referendum Listen to article The Liberian National Elections Commission recently completed the results of the special senatorial election and referendum. According to the results, the Liberian people voted massively against the ruling party and rejected the referendum. The election was held on December 8, 2020. The National Elections Commission (NEC), after much litigation, gave the majority of the results of the election....

  Dr Anthony Nsiah-Asare, the Presidential Advisor on Health, has advised the public to disregard misconceptions about the Covid-19 vaccination on social media. He said the misconceptions, negative messages and videos in circulation were the creation of anti-vaccine campaigners, seeking to confuse the public for “their own selfish interests.” “It is never true that the COVID-19 vaccines have tracking devices in them, or when you take it you will not be able to give birth, neither is it t...