Natural Resources, the Environment and the Constitutional Review Committee’s Recommendations: Why Government should Reconsider its Position

The publication of Government’s Position Paper on the Final Recommendations of the Constitution Review Committee (CRC) has brought some clarity to Ghana’s latest constitutional reform exercise. Government accepts the need for constitutional reform but takes the view, quite properly, that not every desirable policy or administrative arrangement belongs in the Constitution. That caution is understandable because a constitution should state enduring principles of governance and leave matters of detail to legislation. The difficulty, however, is that Government appears to have carried this principle too far in its treatment of the final recommendations of the CRC on the lands, natural resources and environmental thematic areas.

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