The Founder and Leader of the National Interest Movement, Dr Sakara Foster,has advocated for the push for a change of the 1992 Constitution before the 2024 elections is held.
He urged the government and other interest groups to join forces with his Movement to hold a referendum to change the 1992 Constitution before 2023 in order to pave the way for the “reset of a dysfunction system of Ghana”.
“If the current Constitution is not changed before the next elections, the modus operandi of whoever wins the election will not change it and the status quo will continue to remain and I am for constitutional reform to reset the nation’s dysfunctional system before 2024 elections,” he cautioned.
According to Dr Foster, the 2012 flagbearer of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), there should be a referendum to change the Constitution in 2022 it would be too late by 2023, then the elections that would follow in 2024 would simply be business as usual no matter who wins.
He observed that the challenges and problems the nation was faced with was due to the current Constitution which was written in 1992 in the era of the late former President Jerry Rawlings and should be eradicated “permanently” with a new one, adding that “let us fix the Constitution now to allow us fix the country permanently since temporary fixes will not”.
The 1992 Constitution, the longest since independence ushered in the 4th Republic. The late President Mills, in 2010 constituted a team to review the Constitution but the outcome of its work was never implemented.
Oliver-Baker Vormawor, the Convener of the#FixTheCountry campaign, described the existing Constitution as undemocratic because it existed under the guise of constitutional rule, and a tool deliberately designed to unfairly rob the citizenry of their due.
“This constitution claims to be wanting to produce a democratic society, we all know in a democratic society, everyone is equal before the law, you cannot have indemnity clauses buried in the constitution yet, accept the equality of society when clearly there are some over and above the law and that is why we want a new constitution,” he pointed out. –myjoyonline.com
