{"id":740197,"date":"2022-01-08T07:54:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T07:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/08\/scrap-deputy-minister-post-from-the-constitution-former-deputy-agric-minister-advocates\/"},"modified":"2022-01-08T07:54:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T07:54:34","slug":"scrap-deputy-minister-post-from-the-constitution-former-deputy-agric-minister-advocates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/08\/scrap-deputy-minister-post-from-the-constitution-former-deputy-agric-minister-advocates\/","title":{"rendered":"Scrap Deputy Minister post from the Constitution \u2014 Former Deputy Agric Minister advocates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Saturday,  8 January 2022<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>mynewsgh.com<\/p>\n<p>2022-01-08<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/47792990.295.jpg\" alt=\"Former Deputy Agric Minister, Kennedy Osei Nyarko\" title=\"Former Deputy Agric Minister, Kennedy Osei Nyarko\" width=\"295\" height=\"166\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Former Deputy Agric Minister, Kennedy Osei Nyarko<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none;\">\n<p style=\"clear:right\" id=\"article-123\">A former Deputy Minister of Agriculture in Akufo-Addo\u2019s first term who is also Member of Parliament for Akyem Swedru, Kennedy Osei Nyarko has said the position of Deputy Minister in our constitution is not needed.<\/p>\n<p>He believes that some amendments will help reduce the cost of running the administration and also ensure that the country enjoys the needed development.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy Osei Nyarko made these known in a post he shared on Facebook to mark Constitution Day on January 7, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>He made mention of three amendments he will want in the 1992 constitution which includes amending the constitution to make Parliament totally independent from the executive. <\/p>\n<p>This means no Member of Parliament should be appointed as Ministers. In the case a president wants to appoint an MP as a minister he or she should resign their seat.<\/p>\n<p>The Akyem Swedru Member of Parliament also suggested the \u201cscrapping of Deputy Ministerial positions from our constitution\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, he advocated for \u201camending the constitution to allow for the Election of MMDCES.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ghana commemorated Constitution Day on January 7, 2022, with several individuals making suggestions for parts of the country\u2019s constitution to be amended.<\/p>\n<p>There is the belief that the country\u2019s forward-going is hindered due to some provisions in the constitution that is seen as archaic.<\/p>\n<p><b>See his post below:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fosei.kennedy%2Fposts%2F10221437506781212&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"291\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Saturday, 8 January 2022 Source: mynewsgh.com 2022-01-08 Former Deputy Agric Minister, Kennedy Osei Nyarko A former Deputy Minister of Agriculture in Akufo-Addo\u2019s first term who is also Member of Parliament for Akyem Swedru, Kennedy Osei Nyarko has said the position of Deputy Minister in our constitution is not needed. He believes that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":704485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}