Okyenhene's comment on Ghana's governance unnecessary - Apaak

Convenor of civil society group, Forum for Governance and Justice has criticized the Okyenhene for his description of Ghana’s democracy as flawed.

Mr. Clement Apaak says his royal eminence’s call for a better implementation of decentralization in Ghana has come rather too late.

The Okyenhene Amoatia Ofori Panin II at an IDEG forum on Wednesday highlighted several flaws in Ghana’s democratic governance and questioned why governance was still centralized.

But Mr Apaak believes the Okyenhene had the opportunity to make inputs into the constitutional review process which has just ended.

“I have a very serious problem when most Ghanaians including the eminent Chief and many others were in the country when the late President did what was mandated by the constitution in terms of soliciting ideas about how we can amend the current constitution to better serve.

“The Okyenhene and others like him did not make proposals to that effect then I find it very strange.

“If the Okyenhene truly believes that this assertion is one that will benefit us as a people then perhaps he should be making that assertion to Parliament”.