The Constitution Review Committee is in its third month of public engagement. So far, the 8-member committee has held a total of 12 Thematic Stakeholder Engagements, 5 Identifiable Interest Group Engagements, and 8 Eminent Person Engagements. All of the thematic stakeholder and interest group engagements have been live-streamed.
Our Thematic Stakeholder Engagements have covered the following areas: Lands and Natural Resources; Local Government and Decentralization; Public Services and State Enterprises; Independent Constitutional Bodies and Council of State; Transitions; Political Parties; The Executive and Legislature; the Judiciary; Rights, Gender and Youth; Public Finance and Economic Governance; and Anticorruption. Thematic engagements on Chieftaincy and Citizenship remain outstanding.
The committee has also held cross-thematic engagements with the following Identifiable Interest Groups: Business and Labour Groups, Academia and Professional Bodies; the Military, Police and Other Security Services, and the Media. Addditional engagements are planned with traditional authorities and the clergy/religious bodies.
The Eminent Persons the committee has engaged so far include H.E. President John Dramani Mahama, former President J.A. Kufuor, Speaker Alban Bagbin, former Speaker Mike Ocquaye, former Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo, former Council of State member Sam Okudzeto, Nana S.K.B. Asante (chair of the Committee of Experts that produced the draft of the 1992 Constitution), Nana Ato Dadzie, and Prof. Kwamena Ahwoi. Other Eminent Person Engagements are planned.
Zonal Public Engagements are planned for the following locations in the coming weeks: Accra, Wa, Bolgatanga, Tamale, Sunyani, Kumasi, Koforidua, Cape Coast, Takoradi, and Ho. An online engagement is also planned with the Ghanaian Diaspora. Firm dates for the zonal engagements will be announced in due course.
The Committee is also holding online engagements, on X Space engagement hosted by Kaly Jay.
The committee continues to receive written submissions from individuals and organizations. Please send your memos with recommendations and proposals for constitutional amendment to submissions@