A Governance Expert and Former United Nations Senior Advisor, Professor Baffour Agyeman-Duah, has said the Council of State should be abolished due to the financial difficulties facing the government and the country in general.
In his view, there are millions of experts who are willing to submit papers advising the president on key issues in the country without charging a dime.
Asked whether in his view the Council of State is still relevant while speaking on the New Day show on TV3 with Johnnie Hughes Monday March 28, he answered ” A good friend of mine at CDD said if a president of this country and for that matter any country needs advise, that president can call any of the 30 million people that we have in this country.
“So in other words, the argument he made was that is there a need at all to constitute a body of 35 and to be paying them, giving them vehicles and all these benefits when in fact an advise giving to the president is not binding.
“So, one will question the relevance unless there is a way to shape it up to form it in a way but still if it is only to render advise then I will suggest, even though members of the council are experienced people, they are highly respectable people, I respect all of them, but I believe that there are some experts who can easily put together a paper to advise the president on any issue that comes up.
“All I am saying is that if it is a matter of advise, the president has the right to call any of the 30 million people for advise and not pay for it. “
“In a larger scheme of things especially, if you looking at our budgetary challenges then it will be one of the intuitions that personally I will recommend not to be retained,” he said when asked whether the Council should be abolished.
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