The Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Dr Dominic Ayine, has inaugurated an 11-member Constitution Review Implementation Committee (CRIC) tasked with turning Ghana’s accepted constitutional reform proposals into law.
The committee, chaired by Presidential Legal Counsel and former Attorney-General, Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong, was sworn in at the Law House in Accra on Friday, August 28, following government’s release of its position paper on recommendations from the Constitution Review Committee chaired by Professor H. Kwesi Prempeh.
Dr Ayine gave the committee a strict timeline, saying the first set of constitutional amendment Bills, covering non-entrenched provisions, must be ready for Parliament by November 2026. He said some of the proposed amendments would eventually go to a referendum alongside the 2027 district assembly elections.
“Your task is deliberately bipartisan and deliberately time-bound,” he said.
Other members of the committee are Dr Justice Srem Sai, Thomas Ampem Nyarko, Charlotte Osei, Dr Rainer Akumperigya, Emelia Ankomah, Kwame Anyimadu-Antwi, Samuel Passah, Oliver Barker-Vormawor, Salamatu Iliasu and Eric Owusu-Mensah.
Ankomah represents the Majority in Parliament, while Anyimadu-Antwi represents the Minority. Passah represents local government, and Owusu-Mensah serves as Parliament’s representative. Barker-Vormawor is the committee’s Secretary, and Iliasu is the Draftsperson.
Chairperson Marietta Brew said the committee understood the weight of its assignment and would not reopen the broader review of the 1992 Constitution, but focus strictly on turning already-accepted recommendations into workable measures.
“The Committee will maintain a comprehensive record of its decisions, activities and expenditure. We will prepare an implementation roadmap, a legislative and referendum calendar, as well as a system for tracking the status of every accepted recommendation. We will report regularly on the progress of the programme,” she said.
Government has reiterated its commitment to an inclusive, transparent constitutional review process it says reflects the aspirations of Ghanaians and strengthens democratic governance.