CRC proposes removal of mandatory retirement age of 60 from Constitution

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  • Dunia 1 month ago

    I thank God these are just recommendations. This is not properly thought through. You can't just impose your ideas on us.

  • KK 1 month ago

    Prof. nobody says 85-year-old retirees can be replaced by younger job seekers. The idea is that, the 85-year-old retires, the 60-70-year-old climbs into his place, and it trickles down all the way to the new graduate.
    We ar ...
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  • Kanawu, USA 1 month ago

    Nonsense! Why would you need someone to retire before you take their place? You can never develope thinking this way! Third world mentality! That's why you are been chased out all over civilised world! Stupid thinking!

  • WE CAN LEARN FROM OTHER COUNTRIES. 1 month ago

    Retirement ages are increasing everywhere else in the world for one simple reason. People are living longer and are remaining healthier for longer. Why cut short a person's productivity and in many cases deprive society of th ...
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  • Greedy. Let the person retire and seek another job post retirement 1 month ago

    Ghanaian oldmen are selfish
    There should not be retirement age so that octagenerians will continue looting us into their graves. Who ever suggested this must be me tally deranged.

  • Johnny 1 month ago

    If this country shd be left to the youth it will become like Haiti or Afghanistan. Check the character of Ablakwa Okudjeto, Sammy Gyamfi,Sam George and Chairman Wontumi They are so dishonest scrambling for everything at a yo ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 1 month ago

    Johny, your statement did not come from me but I am with you. Those Babies with Sharp Teeth as Rawlings referred to them are opportunistic and certified thieves. They are stealing and eating with both hands. How did they acqu ...
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  • THERE IS SOME TRUTH IN WHAT YOU ARE SAYING EVEN THOUGH IT IS A BITS HARSH 1 month ago

    Unfortunately you are partly right. Many younger folk who are frantic to push out older ,more experienced people are only salivating at the chance to also "enjoy" and rob the country blind. What they forget is that they will ...
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  • Ray 1 month ago

    Are the older ones no robbing now? Even some young ones are also robbing like Adu Boahene, Wontumi. Buffer Stock boss, small girl Opare Addo, to mention a few.

  • Aduomi 1 month ago

    You don't need to be challenged. You are a stupid liar and a coward.. If you have all the information you claim to have, put them out for every one to see... You are so stupid, you can't even appreciate the fact that Asiedu ...
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  • Ruben 1 month ago

    You are just a simpleton full of diabolic partisan envy. Why did you mention only those guys who are with the NDC? Your problem is your false entitlement to Ghana and it's resources. Even in your village, your grandparents ow ...
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  • Ray 1 month ago

    Yeah, imagine them working till they are 80 and 90 years. Pls think oooo

  • .mr amin 1 month ago

    60 is too early it should be 70 +

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 1 month ago

    Hmmmmmmm. This is a big problem. Many people don’t want to retire because they might not have been reasonably established to survive in the current economic conditions in Ghana. So, they keep on to be working until the bone ...
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  • ST GHFUO: Ghana, nation with foolish leaders 1 month ago

    Open a small shop buy and sell, open a bar or engage in farming butnyou cant just stay home as a retired person it's boring

  • Karikakchar 1 month ago

    Well, getting it out of the constitution may be in order and private companies should be allowed to keep their staff after 60 if they find them still useful.

  • Dr Mumbi Seraki 1 month ago

    Hello youth of Ghana. You can take your own life with medicine....for instance 15 paracetamol at once........or combine medicine and akpeteshie or weedicide. ...

  • Ray 1 month ago

    True. Same with police and other institutions in collusion with politicians. Pure example is GRA's Amishaddai won is also a Dr. but can't remember how old he was when his mandatory retirement caught up with him. Thieves and i ...
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  • ST GHFUO: Ghana, nation with foolish leaders 1 month ago

    Learn from other nations particularly g7.nations I've seen.profrssors aged 70plus still teaching in Canadian and American universities the retirment ages should be left for the.universities to decide..the retirement age is on ...
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  • Ofui 1 month ago

    You can't compare a declining youth population country like canada to ghana , which has a growing unemployment youthful population...you are just a cockroach.

  • Ofui 1 month ago

    What experience are you referring to? Ghanaian youth with fresh minds are struggling to get a job, and you think of keeping the old forks in the job market. If they have the so called experience, why are they creating their o ...
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  • Ray 1 month ago

    Vast experience n knowledge my ass. How would the young folks gain experience and move up? They only are good for theory on TV or the classroom They don't have plans laid down after retirement that is why he is proposing this ...
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  • Mike 1 month ago

    Exactly

  • OBSERVERS WITHOUT BOADERS 1 month ago

    GOOD COMMENT

  • Kwaku Tee 1 month ago

    Our Govts shd rather target the economy first and improve it b4 removing the 60 year retirement age.Countries like Russia and Greece, are facing decreasing population growth rates, with an aging workforce that is why they hav ...
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  • KB 1 month ago

    The old folks failed to create opportunities,they sit there and take allowances until they are old .In the advance counties they create opportunities and jobs for the young ones .so don't sit there and insult people come down ...
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  • Ray 1 month ago

    You are a genius. Pls tell them.

  • @ Kwame USA, Thank you. 1 month ago

    Even if they reduce the retirement age to 45, without proper strategies to create more jobs, there will still be high unemployment rate. From the comments, I realised that many people sees retirement at 60 as an antidote for ...
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  • GHANA'S ELDERS HAVE THE BRAINS OF KIDS. 1 month ago

    AFTER 60 YEARS, YOUR STRENGTH, ENERGY, SIGHT, AND COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS DETERIORATE FAST, AND MARKEDLY FAILS ABYSMALLY TO KEEP UP WITH MODERN TRENDS IN MODERN TECHNOLOGIES AND COMPUTER APPLICATIONS.

    IN GHANA WHERE 90% OF THE ...
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  • Philosopher 1 month ago

    Good thought, KK.
    He is thinking of the smart few. Look at the universities, even at 60, they are unwilling to mentor many young scholars. Please, keep it there. If it's not broken, don't fix it. Again the issue of increasi ...
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  • PAA RASTA 1 month ago

    KK , IF YOU GRADUATE FROM COLLEGE, AND YOU PAID ATTENTION IN CLASS , YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO CREAT YOUR OWN JOB . YOU SHOULDN'T WAIT FOR SOMEBODY TO RETIRE FOR YOU TO TAKE OVER HIS OR HER JOB.

  • Chris 1 month ago

    Aren't people tired of working?. I think they are simply not that smart. Not training people to replace them. Even after 80 years, others will ask for more time to finish their dream houses. Low quality lives.

  • GUARANTEED: SKILL THAT WOULD STILL PAY DAILY CASH-OUTS IN 2026 1 month ago

    60 is too early. Do yourself a favour even as you pray; New year follows shortly, prepare towards a better 2026 with a practical skill that puts cash in your hand immediately if your income pauses today. Smartphone repair & a ...
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  • Misplaced Anger by Ghanaian Youth on CRC's Recommendation 1 month ago

    The lack of jobs for the youth is not caused by older workers staying longer. It stems from structural issues like limited industrial growth, mismatch skills, and weak job creation policies. And these areas are where the yout ...
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  • Ray 1 month ago

    Exactly. Pls we won't allow this oppression on us. Same with Kuffuor and ex gratia. Self-serving politicians n so-called academics who never write books, invent or do research.

  • 10% royalty in Ghana lithium 1 month ago

    The youth are not commenting on this nonsense retirement age increase selfish men are about to hold our country as personal property

  • KK 1 month ago

    And they will destroy the country with their archaic ideas. We recently had a quasi-senile oldman ruling us, and we all saw the results.

  • Kanawu, USA 1 month ago

    Akuffo addo was let down by the so called youth! Look at those involved in those gigantic stealing, they are not Oldman!

  • Pluto 1 month ago

    Do you know the Mother Serpent of All Corruption?? Don't talk what you don't know

  • the Villager 1 month ago

    John Kumah had everything at 45.
    Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has joined the thieving wagon.

  • Ray 1 month ago

    True and yu want Kojo Nkrumah to continue looting till he is 90 years. He becomes mp and viola Land Cruiser and huge mansion. He did not have even a Toyota Corolla at Joy FM

  • Nana 1 month ago

    @ Kanawu ,USA
    Check the ages of Sam George ,Ablakwa Okudjeto, Felix Ofosu Kwakye, Sammy Gyamfi etc Even Ibrahim Mahama and Chairman Wontumi have a questionable background at that youthful ages with their wealth.

  • K .K 1 month ago

    The CRC committee want to increase unemployment and at the time to create low productivity in workers place.

  • King P 1 month ago

    Some of the proposals by the Constitutional Review Committee have exposed how dumb Professor H Kwasi Prempeh is. He needs to be investigated by GTEC, as to how he acquired his PhD

  • Asase Ba 1 month ago

    He doesn't have PhD. He is a lawyer, so at best he is a JD.
    JD (Juris Doctor)

    A professional degree in law.

    Prepares you to practice law, become a lawyer, judge, or work in legal fields.

    Focuses on practical legal ...
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  • Tintempa 1 month ago

    Are they taking views from Ghanaians or sitting in their ac offices conjuncture opinions this is elite capture how many Ghanaians are employed to care about pension age

  • selfmade KING 1 month ago

    It can’t be passed without PARLIAMENT AND NATIONAL REFERENDUM

    Any constitutional REVIEW PROPOSALS are all ENTRENCHED BILLS and cannot be passed by parliament alone

    It can only by passed by

    PARLIAMENT + NATIONAL ...
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  • OGyam 1 month ago

    Our retirement age was set ages ago when life expectancy was very low. As we live longer through good medical facilities, common sense dictates that our retirement age should be a bit more progressive.For example: Those born ...
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  • the Villager 1 month ago

    Thanks, that is what is done in most European countries.

  • John,Tema 1 month ago

    The Europeans demanded for an increase in retirement ages ,bcoz of an improvement of their economies. Unfortunately Ghana''s economy has never grown proportionally with the growth of our population.

  • Kojo 1 month ago

    Bringing in that UK nonsense!!! They can pay their state pension that is why they are doing that!!!! It is not a superior idea!!!

  • Kojo 1 month ago

    They can't pay their state pension in UK.

  • ST GHFUO: Ghana, nation with foolish leaders 1 month ago

    In Canada, there is no single "mandatory" retirement age. Instead, retirement is generally defined by when you choose to stop working and when you begin collecting government benefits.
    ​The standard retirement age is 65, ...
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  • Kojo 1 month ago

    Have you read Ghana's pension Act 766? If not, please have a good read and come again!!!

  • Nana 1 month ago

    GO HOME OLD MAN. EVEN IF ONE HUNDRED YEARS YOU WILL GO HOME ONE DAY.

  • Atta Kay 1 month ago

    Every rational human being would like to retire younger and enjoy his/her pension, if his savings are very good. Unfortunately many Ghanaians do not have anything to rely on when thru they retire.

  • Kwame Peter 1 month ago

    Kanawu USA,yes the youth exploited the systemic weaknesses but Nana Addo's greatest failure was his reliance on family and friends, unfortunately President Mahama has not learnt a thing from it with his appointments,his failu ...
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  • Donatus 1 month ago

    Ah! Africa! Common retirement age, Ghanaians are doing trial and error all the time. What is wrong with the African?

  • Antwi 1 month ago

    Then it should be specific. You know the unemployment rate is already high

  • Ohene 1 month ago

    This man is dumb. He has no economics ingredient in him. He sounds like KOA.

  • APOO 1 month ago

    Nonsense, how would the younger people get employed let alone promoted, if these olumen and ole lady pancakes don't kick the bucket?

  • Yaa Pompor 1 month ago

    Retirement age has increased in countries where jobs abound. Look at the percentage of unemployed Ghanaian graduates and you'll realise that this proposal was not thoroughly thought out. Lecturing and teaching are not the sam ...
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  • Pat 1 month ago

    Politicians don't retire but poor working people retire at ,60..Unemployment is an issue faced worldwide and needs to be tackled Ghana cannot behave as an island based on the retirement age realities

  • Kofi 1 month ago

    This is non starter. I have not seen their recommendations but it goes to show the poor quality outcome the CRC work.

    So far all their leaked recommendations are unbelievably terrible.

  • 12345 1 month ago

    you are still thinking as though you are in the west, wake up and face the realities H. Prempeh.
    Until retirement ceases to be a valve and conduit to get people to move up and open up spaces, your suggestion is a non-starter ...
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  • be wise 1 month ago

    The problem is that the old men are exceptionally selfish; they behave as though the have another 100 years to live so are extremely greedy as .

    How can the CRC propose the removal of mandatory retirement age of 60 in a c ...
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  • selfmade KING 1 month ago

    Is a constitutional review

    It’s an entranced bill and cannot be passed alone by supermajority votes of 2/3!


    It can only be passed into law by PARLIAMENT + NATIONAL REFERENDUM

    And even judging by the comments he ...
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  • Agbeli Kumordziì 1 month ago

    Law is the law @ 60 yo ho home and start a new life with your grandkids
    If Ghana economic improves the we can sta giving contract to the pensioners to come and work

  • Good Man 1 month ago

    Very Good. Because you're nearing your retirement age, you want the constitution to be Amended... Right ?

  • selfmade KING 1 month ago

    They can’t amend the constitution without NATIONAL Referendum boss!!

    Every constitutional amendment is an ENTRENCHED BILL and supermajority cannot passed it into laws without NATIONAL REFERENDUM!!

    These are all talks ...
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  • REDUCE RETIREMENT AGE INSTEAD 1 month ago

    We are not in the West where they keep jacking up retirement ages in the midst of low unemployment. We should be doing the opposite of what they are doing and not copy them blindly.

    My proposal is to lower retirement age ...
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  • Giant 1 month ago

    Massa did you consider industrial worker,how can an industrial worker work for 70yrs .you only do to favor yourselves think boyond that limit.Ghana development is not about civil service,it is solely rely on businness and ind ...
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  • selfmade KING 1 month ago

    Parliament + national referendum before these can be pass anyways!

  • Paul 1 month ago

    The retirement age at 60 is not only for professors but to make way for younger generation to be employed. Unemployment will rise if the retirement age is raised to 70. We are experimenting in the USA now.

  • Koo 1 month ago

    This guy is a joke,even it should be 55,how many of your 60 years knows how to even use computers ? How many of you has knowledge about mordern tech ? Go on retirement to pave wave for fresh brains,

  • Yad 1 month ago

    They should retire and then work on contract basis. Thus the norm in academia.

  • BLACK MOSES (USA) 1 month ago

    EVEN THOUGH WHAT THE PROFESSOR IS SAYING IN SOME WAYS IT MAKES SENSE AND IN OTHER WAYS IT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE. IT MAKES SENSE WHERE IT IS DIFFICULT TO GET THE YOUTH FOR REPLACEMENT. WITH SOME PROFESSIONS AND SOME INSTITUTIONS ...
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  • Kwam 1 month ago

    Some of us want to retire earlier if possible 55yrs. So there should rather be a medical board of eminent medical , social and psychological officers to examine public Officers who want to stay on beyond the 55yrs
    Public of ...
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  • Jim 1 month ago

    When will the incoming graduates be able to get into the workforce. Did this committee realize which country it was making this proposal? Already, some current government officials have lied about their age and causing job j ...
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  • Abaqua 1 month ago

    Write your comment; Bro, let the sixty stand still. change not anything. do you want looters n service thieves to stay long. instead of increasing pension pay by ghc 500 in general. think better, not unnecessary things .

  • Nii Atta Oko 1 month ago

    The idea of increasing retirement age from 60 to 70 or thereabouts is unwelcome for now especially in our current situation where school leavers especially graduates can’t find a job. Judges and lecturers after reaching the ...
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  • George Kwame Johnson PhD (Zosimli Naa) 1 month ago

    I am currently 75 years old! I am a Department Chair of Education and full professor of Educational Psychology and going strong. I am a dual citizen with residency in Accra. My greatest angst is moving here full time and havi ...
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  • Ray 1 month ago

    Conduct research, write books and do consultancy with all the free time u have. Africans alway depending on government for jobs and sustenance. Create more income for yourself in the private sector, my friend.

  • Abaqua 1 month ago

    Write your comment;Bro, for if you are sixty park out n go why. where are jobs for our children. are you de only educated people to enjoy. shld rather be 55yrs better.

  • Philosopher 1 month ago

    These arguments are worthless, Prof. Always look the co text before you apply best practices from elsewhere. What is the life expectancy of the average Ghanaian? What us rate of unemployment? If you retire with your worth of ...
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  • Teddy more 1 month ago

    Just to say, you retired at 60 but maximum retirement will be 70. I think that makes sense.
    Some people like retired at 60 with their own will.
    But maximum judicial retirement will be 70.

  • William EH 1 month ago

    The concept "retirement" academia is misplaced. One does not and cannot "retire" from producing knowledge.

  • William EH 1 month ago

    The concept "retirement" in academia is irrelevant, as one does not "retire" from producing (new) knowledge.

  • William EH 1 month ago

    The concept "retirement" in academia is misplaced. One does not and cannot "retire" from producing knowledge.

  • Pluto 1 month ago

    No no no

    Our kids are looking for job. Let's retire at 60 so the kids can also get jobs to do

  • Bbk 1 month ago

    In country Young ones can't get jobs some times 15 years after school and you people are just suggesting retiring at 70 years. What a joke? Let's get serious in this country.

  • True Akan 1 month ago

    So all these while this guy was stupid

  • Kwaku Effah 1 month ago

    Some of the arguments advanced towards the retirement age issue are warped.
    I am a typical example. I voluntraly retired from Ghana public service as an engineer at age 55. I got the opportunity to travel to USA at age 60. ...
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  • ST GHFUO: Ghana, nation with foolish leaders 1 month ago

    Effaced, they are not warped. Canadian retirement age is 65 but no kne will force you to retire..you can continue working If you want to or just take your pension after 60 I believe that should be the case in Gh. It's always ...
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  • Ray 1 month ago

    So u abandoned your country and ran away to serve America. Who trained u to be engineer. Have you written a book or done any research to help the younger students in engineering? The USA has a shortage of such professionals t ...
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  • Truth 1 month ago

    Not sure about what you guys did...it appears most of the recommendations are nothing better o...most of them are not serious issues to say the least, almost all the key recommendations people have issues with... anyway

  • ARTICLES OF NO ANY COMMERCIAL VALUE 1 month ago

    The retirement should be reduced to 50 because we have a lot of unemployed graduates in the country.

  • Sammy 1 month ago

    Talk sense. At age of 60 for retirement is ok and it must be not be removed.

  • PAA RASTA 1 month ago

    THIS WOULD BE THE REST THING EVER TO HAPPEN TTO GHANA. RETIREMENT AGE AT 70. GOOD. THIS WOULD MAKE OUR IDIOT GRADUATES THINK AND LEARN HOW TO CREAT JOBS. GOD BLESS PATRICK AWUAH OF ASHESI UNIVERSITY. OUR DUMB ARSS ...
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  • Pius 1 month ago

    This idea won't hold especially in Ghana. We are battling with youth joblessness yet you want to propose this? Prof think again..

  • Pius 1 month ago

    This idea won't hold especially in Ghana. We are battling with youth joblessness yet you want to propose this? Prof think again..

  • Kwamina 1 month ago

    Is the age of retirement also something to have in a national constitution? Retirement age should be determined by longevity of life. As life expectancy increases so does the retirement age. Blackman let's use our brain.

  • Ray 1 month ago

    This so called Prof. is a self- serving idiot. Yeah they want to satay there until they die. If someone did not retire would he have been where he is. Younger PhDs are in the pipeline so pls don't stifle their mobility. On to ...
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  • Amihere Augustine 1 month ago

    If people should be allowed to work in bot government institutions up to 70 years as you are proposing, then how would our children get chances for employment. I suggest that, this proposal will not help to reduce unemploymen ...
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  • Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 1 month ago

    Isn’t it strange that most here are confusing retirement age with job opportunities? The two are separate. How has the present retirement age created job opportunities as we speak. And why should anybody give way to the you ...
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  • Sly K. Ed 1 month ago

    Lots of youths in the system without jobs but see another stupid recommendation to stifled the already dwindling jobs.

  • snake eyes 1 month ago

    Black oldmen and selfishness, already there are no jobs to employ the teaming youth, retirement too you want to increase it, I thought you would rather decrease the retirement age to 50yrs with increased retirement packages s ...
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  • Gh 1 month ago

    This review committee is wack and all their proposals are wack and lack modern ideology like practical, technological, and computerised education..

  • WR yoKojo 1 month ago

    Prof you are wrong, retirement at is too early but 70 not ethical. No where in the world has that. U r wrong on the employment too, it's actually directly affect employment. They free up space for next in line to climb then ...
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  • Hajj 1 month ago

    I agree with this man paa

  • Jkm 1 month ago

    This is a selfish persons thinking. This is not visionary

  • Flex 1 month ago

    This is where personal sentiment get in the way of professional duty. It isn't helpful

  • Flex 1 month ago

    This is where personal sentiment get in the way of professional duty. It isn't helpful. Those places where retirement ages are increasing. They find new and innovative ways of creating jobs for the teaming youth. We don't

  • Kwame 1 month ago

    There appears too many irrelevant recommendations by this committee. Why, because of university lecturers alone we must not cap retirement age. Don't we have allowance for contract?

  • KWAKU 1 month ago

    Retirememt ag3 is being increased in developed countries because they have healthy aging populatiin and very low youthful population. Therefore, they have challeges replacing the aged worker. Here, you have huge numbers of yo ...
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  • Akosua 1 month ago

    There will surely be a Constitutional crisis if some of these recommendations are taken. Why keep an old person when the young ones are helpless. Weird proposal.

  • Ebenezer Asante 1 month ago

    Yes! I'm young but most people become even more productive at age 60 so the retirement age should increase from 60 to 70. It will help all of us.

  • Agbeli Kumordziì 1 month ago

    Some Ghanains wilk be working until they dies on the job

  • Oteng Agyei 1 month ago

    I agree with the Prof. in that we live longer these days and people can work longer. At the moment we are forcing many experience personnel out of the working force.This is NOT in Ghana alone. It is a universal problem and ma ...
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  • Oteng Agyei 1 month ago

    This is the work for the Legislature to Regulate if and when necessary . tHIS IS NOT a Constitutional thing. We have to create more jobs so many people can work for more taxes to be paid. This is how Pensioneers can get their ...
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  • Akonor solo 1 month ago

    Is this person serious? What is th life expectancy of of Ghana population? How many people get 60 years before they die in Ghana? After 60 years,why is the state and living standards and conditions of a working Ghanaian, esp ...
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  • Abubakar Sadick 1 month ago

    Why should you retire a person whilst he can still deliver.Age is just a number and how you feel so I support that.And Linking unemployment to retirement is very wrong and it doesn't make sense. Africans if not poverty and we ...
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  • Sammy 1 month ago

    Professor please i want to ask you a question
    If you alone work up to 70 years your 5 children who are between 25 to 45years should work at where when you work up to 70years?
    Because the is much job in the cou ...
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  • George k 1 month ago

    I disagree with this recommendation because it is another way for this old ones to keep surprising the youth and keep looting the resources and share. "If after 60 you don't want to retire, then there is a question mark about ...
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  • MAAB 1 month ago

    Prof you are contradiction of a genuine and honest academic.A disgrace to common sense to suggest no retirement age and tell a very competent leader of a country he can not have a third term. Did he ask you to recommend a thi ...
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  • Eric Ivan bortey 1 month ago

    How many people die before 60??.. have you checked how many people uses their pension benefits for medication?? again which developed country citizens retired at the age of 60?? We should learn how to think positive.. people ...
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