Bawumia Demands Publication of Constitution Review Report

Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, Flagbearer of the NPP, has demanded the publication of the Constitution Review Committee’s report before President Mahama takes any decision on the Tribunals Bill, 2026.

The Committee, established by the President himself, reported last December and recommended the removal of Regional Tribunals from the Constitution, on the basis that the High Court has long carried their caseload. The report, however, has not been published.

“Before the nation has even read it, Parliament has rushed through and legislated in the opposite direction. Mr. President, publish the report first,” Dr. Bawumia said in a statement.

He described the contradiction as a matter of the government’s own process: a presidential committee recommending the abolition of tribunals in December, followed months later by a parliamentary bill re-introducing them, passed in a single day after procedural intervals were waived.

Dr. Bawumia asked the President not to assent to the Bill, but instead to pause and open a national conversation on the future architecture of justice delivery in Ghana.

“Justice belongs to no government and no party. It belongs to the Ghanaian people,” he said, adding that a law reshaping the justice system “should rest on national consensus, not on a headcount.”

He proposed that the President act through the Council of State in accordance with Articles 90 and 106 of the 1992 Constitution, and pledged that the NPP would participate in any national engagement “in good faith.”