The Monument Committee will be given a constitutional right as part of the legislative body of Ghana to make decisions on properties that belong to the State.
Peacefmonline.com sources hinted that renaming of the seat of government from Flagstaff House to Jubilee Flagstaff House is in line with the President’s projection to set up a constitutional Committee in Parliament responsible for naming all government infrastructure in order not to commit them to the mercy of successive governments.
It disclosed that President Mahama is “thinking through to create a Committee within Parliament so that monuments in general, the naming should come from Parliament where it’s a Committee. You have opposition and all, when the NPP is in power; NDC is in power, it’s a Committee.”
“He is just bringing harmony first, then he will go to that step [that all this]. Because Ghana is going to develop, there will be so many monuments…We need to have certainly a group of people thinking through this thing.”
“In government, Parliament has duties. We pay them; they are members of Parliament. If it wasn’t Kufour who named the place and it was a committee, I mean it will be very difficult for you to go back and change it… It would be very difficult for somebody to go and say I’m changing it. Then you have to write to the Committee, propose to them the reason why you want to change it. So, it’s something like the President is thinking deep,” the source said, adding that; “We need to reform our constitution and make sure that there will be a monument body in Parliament.”
Meanwhile, conflicting reports also reaching in reveal that President John Mahama has not endorsed the change of name.
Information Minister, Mahama Ayariga on Wednesday told Kwami Sefa-Kayi on Peace FMs “Kokrokoo” programme, that the Flagstaff House has been changed to Jubilee Flagstaff House.
The merger he said is intended to bury the matter of whether the old name for the edifice is appropriate or the subsequent name given to it under the Mills-Mahama administration in the ground.
He believed the new name will satisfy the two sides; particularly the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
But sources close to Peacefmonline.com explained that the President can only decide to change the name of the Presidential palace after he has called a cabinet meeting to discuss the merits and demerits of the issue before such an information is divulged.
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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