Martin Amidu has fired a fresh salvo at Professor Henry Kwasi Prempeh, Chair of the Constitutional Review Committee (CRC), accusing him of hypocrisy and ideological deception in his recent proposals regarding the future of the Council of State.
Amidu slammed Prempeh’s reform suggestions reported by Joy FM on 3 May 2025, stating, “Firstly, the paradox, hypocrisy, and lack of narrative coherence in the suggestions attributed to Kwasi Prempeh… is the fact that Kwasi Prempeh accepted without demurrer his ‘handpicked’ appointment and served for almost years as a member of the Law Reform Commission after President Akufo-Addo had consulted the Council of State.”
According to Amidu, Prempeh’s current posturing is a deliberate attempt to undermine the very institution that enabled his own political rise. “Kwasi Prempeh now sees his suggestions as endemic sins of the Council of State. This is what is called, double speak!” he said in an open letter available to MyNewsGH.
Amidu further criticised the credibility of the platform and institutions from which Prempeh delivered his remarks, stating, “The IEA and CDD-Ghana have never been politically and ideologically neutral NGOs… These are comprador NGOs working with other comprador Ghanaian political elites for political power to serve the interest of their financiers – the neocolonial foreign masters.”
He also challenged the philosophical basis of Prempeh’s argument for reform. “Mr. Prempeh is one of the ideological constitutional law advocates who pretend deceptively that the Constitutional document is self-executing instead of containing norms and rules which depend on the integrity of human actors…
“He overlooks the fact that opaque operations, excessive presidential influence, [and] alleged non-binding advisory powers are not flaws within the design… but those of the human actors who have failed or refused to uphold the oath of office.”
Amidu defended the original intent behind the Council of State, emphasizing that its effectiveness rests not in its structural design but in the ethical conduct of its members.
“The Council of State… was intended by the framers of the 1992 Constitution… to be constrained by the oath of office of members… which is not self-executing and enforcing, but mere words on paper… which depends solely on human actors and agency.”
He warned that Prempeh’s campaign, if adopted, could lead to constitutional amendments that the governing NDC may not survive politically.
“Amendments to other entrenched provisions of the 1992 Constitution… the NDC cannot win at any future referendum with grave consequences for their ambition for the 2028 elections.”
