Minister of Parliamentary Affairs-designate Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu has suggested that the appointment of the heads of the Electoral Commission (EC), Auditor-General’s Department, and other key state institutions should have parliament’s consent.

He was of the view that the current system was not the best as a president can choose members of his party to occupy such positions, an arrangement that can be dangerous for the nation.

“In the appointments [to] certain constitutional bodies, our parliament has been cut off. We need to get our parliament to be much more consultative. For instance, the appointment of the Electoral Commissioner – I am not too sure that what we have is the best. If you have a president who is overly partisan, he packs the place with his own party supporters, the nation will be in peril,” he said during his vetting by the Appointments Committee of parliament on Monday February 6.

The Majority Leader in parliament proposed that the country should have an arrangement where a “president may do the appointments, but he may require the support of maybe two-thirds of the Members of Parliament. That will force the President to be much more engaging and much more consultative”.

Source: Ghana/ClassFMonline.com