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Prof Henry Kwasi Prempeh says Ghana’s recent political and constitutional experiences heavily shaped the committee’s recommendations, making it impossible to simply recycle earlier proposals.
In his JoyNews interview, the CRC Chairman said the country has encountered situations that were not contemplated when earlier reviews were conducted.
“When the earlier reports were written, we had never experienced an election petition,” he noted. “Since then, we’ve had two.”
He added that Ghana has also witnessed developments that tested constitutional provisions in real time.
“We’ve had the death of a president in office and seen how succession works. We’ve experienced a hung Parliament,” Prof Prempeh said.
According to him, the removal of constitutional office holders and growing democratic tensions in the region further altered the context.
“You couldn’t just take a report off the shelf and say now is the moment,” he said.
He also pointed to global democratic pressures as a factor. “Democracy was not backsliding the way we’re seeing now. The region wasn’t experiencing this level of turbulence,” he explained.
These realities, Prof Prempeh said, compelled the committee to rethink how the Constitution should respond to present-day governance challenges.
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