Our constitution needs to be amended – Bawumia

Vice President and Flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia, has stated that Ghana’s constitution has outlived its purpose and thus needs some changes.

According to Dr. Bawumia, the 1992 Constitution was put together in order to achieve political stability adding that Ghana has in the past thirty years attained that.

Speaking during a meeting with the Volta Regional House of Chiefs, on Thursday, May 30, 204, he emphasized that the time has come for us to implement changes that would direct the nation’s transition to economic development.

“I believe that we need constitutional changes, I think our constitution is a good one, it was done for political stability and we have had political stability over the last thirty years but I think now, there may be need for certain changes that we should do to steer the constitution towards economic development.

“Professor Atta Mills started the process of constitutional review and we should take it up and do broad consultation and I think in this process, it is also time to reduce the power of the Presidency in our constitution,” he said.

Additionally, he urged all political parties in the nation to come to a consensus on a national development plan, which will serve as the blueprint for any party that comes into power.

“I also believe that our political parties should agree to adhere to some broad contours of a national development plan. The back and forth is too much in terms of policy and if we could all as political parties after the elections or before, we sit around and say, these are the things we can to agree on. Education, health, environment, infrastructure, this should be the broad plan. No matter which party comes in, we will follow this plan until it is fully implemented and then once we do that you will see steady development rather than the stop-go, stop-go development that we see and we’re all as political parties guilty of that.”