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Henry Kwasi Prempeh


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The gold rush that poisons politics

‘We cannot afford to surrender this country and our democracy to the galamsey cartels any more than we can to drug cartels or other mafias ' Executive Director of the Centre for Democratic Development Kwasi Prempeh has said...


Government stonewalling on corruption comes under fire

Kwasi Prempeh of the Accra-based thinktank the Center for Democratic Development argues a politician-AG should not direct or lead criminal prosecutions but be confined to advising government on policy and reform representing the state in litigation international transactions and negotiations...


A commission under fire

His remarks were described as 'disappointingly flippant' by Kwasi Prempeh of the Center for Democratic Development...


Economic woes hit Akufo-Addo on all sides

'Finally the party in parliament is playing a necessary and appropriate checking and balancing role in our hyper-presidentialist system' said Professor Kwasi Prempeh head of the Ghana Center for Democratic Development...


Activists rally against E-Levy as government launches consultations

Kwasi Prempeh Executive Director of the Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) labelled the government's treatment of Barker-Vormawor as self-defeating: 'The reaction [of the Police] is far more destabilising and damaging than the silly post...


Populist anti-gay bill divides churches and activists

Bagbin's stance has drawn criticism from civil society groups including Executive Director of the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) Professor Kwasi Prempeh who say that there is nothing special about the Bill that justifies special treatment for it in Parliament...

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Anti-gay bill heads to house

Kwasi Prempeh the head of CDD-Ghana said: 'If it does get presidential assent I am almost certain that it will be challenged judicially; possibly even beyond the shores of Ghana in terms of the regional courts in Africa...


Who judges the judges?

Kwasi Prempeh Executive Director of the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD-Ghana) says that the ability of the Chief Justice to handpick judicial panels 'does not augur well for the independence of the other justices'...

It is really trying to mobilise public disaffection; [and] public hate towards them ' said Executive Director of the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) Prof Henry Kwasi Prempeh...


Election stirs up apathy

To make up for the failure of parliament to scrutinise the plan properly Kwasi Prempeh Executive Director of the Centre for Democracy and Development proposed that any state transaction above a certain threshold should be subject to comprehensive and public review at an early stage by the Auditor General and the Special Prosecutor as well as the Attorney General...


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