Ghana being run like “apam-pam store” – Law Prof

Professor of constitutional law, H Kwasi Prempeh, has said Ghana is being run like an “apam-pam store” – petty mobile stores carried on the head by itinerant hawkers.

Bemoaning what in his view is the arbitrary manner in which contracts are executed in the country as evidenced by some of the exposés made by the presidential commission probing Ghana’s participation in the FIFA 2014 World Cup tournament in Brazil, the Seton Hall law Professor told Samson Lardy Ayenini, host of Joy FM’s Newsfile programme on Saturday that, such exposés make Ghana appear as being run haphazardly.

Prempeh wondered why there have been cases where files covering mega transactions involving huge amounts of dollars cannot be traced.

In his view, governing a 57-year-old Republic that way was “embarrassing”.

He therefore said bodies of inquiry of the likes of the World Cup Commission must not be used to merely parade alleged offenders in the public, nor be a mere moral crusade.

He believes they must, at the end of the day, make substantive reform proposals that will fritter away the status quo and effect change.