CDD-Ghana, Star Ghana school CSOs, Media on Constitutional Reforms

A Two-day capacity-building Workshop on Constitutional Reform for Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and the Media has been held in Kumasi.

It was organised by CDD-GHANA and Star Ghana Foundation, in partnership with UK International Development to mobilise Civil Society and Media support for the constitutional reform processes.

The aim is to strengthen civil society engagement in Ghana’s ongoing constitutional review process by enhancing CSOs and Media understanding of the review process and also to equip participants with practical advocacy and engagement skills.

Ms Vera Abena Addo, Programmes Officer at CDD-Ghana explained that the ongoing review process is the third attempt at constitutional review in the Fourth Republic and CSOs do not want to leave the process in the hands of government alone.

She said CSOs fully support the process because recommendations of the Constitution Review Committee (CRC) were not different from the CSOs, but there was the need for the citizenry to understand the recommendations and, therefore, the need to go round the regions and bring everybody on board in the constitutional review process.

The good aspect of the current review process, Abena Addo said, is that President John Dramani Mahama himself is championing or leading the process and it is the expectation of CSOs and citizens that the review process would be completed by the end of tenure of President Mahama so that it shall be his legacy.

Madam Rebecca Ekpe, the Vice President of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), stated that the Constitution has seen over thirty years of practice without any major review and admonished journalists to read the CRC report thoroughly to be able to properly disseminate the contents to the people.

The participants were drawn from Ashanti, Bono, Bono East and Ahafo regions and were taken through the major recommendations in the CRC report by Dr. Kwabena Oteng Acheampong, a lecturer at GIMPA Law School and also at Law and Development Associates and Ms. Anita Awuku, the Projects Officer at Star Ghana Foundation.

From Thomas Agbenyegah Adzey, Kumasi

 

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