Akufo-Addo is Ghana's problem, not the 1992 Constitution – Ex-director of Ghana School of Law

President Nana Akufo-Addo is Ghana's problem, not the country's 1992 Constitution, former Director of the Ghana School of Law Kwaku Ansa-Asare has asserted.

In his view, President Akufo-Addo's disrespect of the 1992 Constitution is what has led to calls for a review of the document.

"Even [under] Rawlings, we didn't feel that there was the need to review it," Mr Ansa-Asare noted.

Similarly, he said former President John Kufuor came, and "everything went according to the dictates of the Constitution."

In like manner, Mr Ansah Asare noted: "Mills came; everything went harmoniously in consonance with the provisions enshrined in the Constitution."

But "Why now?" he wondered.

In his considered opinion, "It is because there have been basic differences between the operators of this same document we are referring to as the 1992 Constitution.

"If the operator, if the human agent of the Republic who has to operate the Constitution does not respect the Constitution, it will create the misleading impression that it is the Constitution that is at fault and not the human agent operating the Constitution who is at fault", Mr Ansa-Asare stressed.

"As far as I am concerned, our current president does not respect the Constitution," Mr Ansah Asare stressed, insisting: "That is the problem."

"It is not the Constitution that is the problem. It is the chief executive of the state, which is the problem," Mr Ansa-Asare emphasised in a recent Citi FM interview.