Ghana govt approves proposal to extend presidential tenure

Ghanaian authorities has approved a connection to widen the statesmanlike word from 4 to 5 years and trim the minimum property request for statesmanlike candidates to 35.

The West African nation, regarded arsenic 1 of Africa’s starring producers of golden and cocoa, has enjoyed uninterrupted antiauthoritarian governance since the adoption of its existent law bid successful 1992.

President John Dramani Mahama constituted a committee past twelvemonth to undertake a reappraisal of the country’s constitution, and the sheet presented its last study to him connected Thursday.

Briefing journalists aft the submission, Justice Minister Dominic Ayine said the authorities had accepted the proposal to summation the president’s tenure from 4 to 5 years.

“The authorities has accepted the proposal to widen the word of bureau of the president from 4 years to 5 years,” Ayine said.

He added that the authorities had besides endorsed the connection to widen the tenure of members of parliament to 5 years successful bid to synchronise it with the statesmanlike term.

While the Constitution Review Committee projected reducing the minimum property for statesmanlike candidates from 40 to 30 years, Ayine said the authorities opted alternatively to acceptable the eligibility property astatine 35.

In its report,...