COMMISSION RECEIVES 33,000 SUBMISSIONS (SPREAD, SEPT 14, 2010)

THE Constitution Review Commission (CRC) has so far received over 33,000 submissions from six regions concerning aspects of the 1992 Republican Constitution that need to be retained and further developed, amended or repealed.
The Commission has already organised open hearings and mini-consultations in the Upper West, Upper East, Northern, Brong Ahafo, Ashanti and Eastern regions.
The Chairman of the Commission, Professor Albert K. Fiadjoe, announced this at the opening ceremony of a three-day regional level hearing and mini-consultations for the Western Region at the Takoradi Polytechnic.
He explained that the Commission was organising the three-day programme to grapple with the multiplicity of issues surrounding the management of the region’s natural resources.
He said all other programmes pertaining to the review of the constitution, which were organised in the other regions, were held for two days.
Professor Fiadjoe said participation was excellent in all the regions already visited and that it was a clear and adequate opportunity for Ghanaians to identify and discuss the strength, as well as the weaknesses, of the 1992 Constitution.
He said the Commission would visit the communities and districts throughout the country to provide an opportunity to those people who did not have the chance to make their submissions at the regional level hearings.
He said members of the public could lodge their submissions at the various regional co-ordinating councils, regional and district offices of the National Commission for Civic Education, as well as the chiefs’ palaces.
Professor Fiadjoe announced that the Commission would hold special mini-consultations in the Western Region on the oil and gas industry to offer the opportunity for people and stakeholders to discuss the development of the oil and gas industry, as well as the management of the revenue that would be generated from the sector.
One of the Commissioners, Osabarimba Kwesi Atta II, said the constitutional review was a very important exercise since it would create the opportunity for Ghanaians to make inputs into the review of the supreme law of the country.
He, therefore, urged Ghanaians to make good use of the opportunity and make useful contributions towards the amendment of the constitution.