Former President Agyekum Kufuor has said that one of the problems that he disliked concerning the constitutional provisions for what a head of state can do or not was to choose 50 per cent of his appointees from Parliament.
“As a product of a political party, even for a president, it is not so easy to take unilateral decisions that do not align with the general direction of the larger party and being president means that a person works mostly in the interest of his political party, ensuring that its ideals are fully represented in government,” he asserted.
According to the previous president, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) produced him in a way, and it so occurred that he grew up with colleagues, some even smarter than him, and shared some values, norms and tenets of the occasion.
Former President Kufuor, who said this at an Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) interplay with him at his residence in Peduase within the Eastern Region on reviewing the 1992 Constitution, indicated that a problem he disliked was about how he was anticipated to make political appointments.
He defined that the management, members, nicely wishers and trustworthy of the NPP labored collectively to get the occasion’s nomination carried out for the nation to know they advocated the occasion grew and have become the occasion of the nation and never simply him.
“So, if Kufuor will get the possibility and says now I am right here, I have a free hand, and I will convey folks from exterior as a result of all of the folks I have labored with over the a long time will not be adequate to assist me, then I will say I modified the occasion, if I had my means, I would have needed the specific implementation of the separation of powers, making certain majority of appointments will not be made from Parliament, because the 1992 Constitution has stipulated.
“But then, since they put me in the driver’s seat, once you are there, you are there for the entire nation, naturally, I want some leeway to bring one or two people to make the citizenry feel after all, this government is there for us, but the stock really was the party’s government,” former President Kufuor averred.
He insisted that what he didn’t like although was the constitutional provision that fifty per cent should come from Parliament as a result of he would go for strict separation of powers and that’s “if people are Members of Parliament (MPs), they remain as such and if they are given chance to become ministers, then they have to leave Parliament”.
Source: www.ghanaiantimes.com.gh
