Inusah Fuseini, a former chairman of the Law Constitutional Committee of Parliament, is advocating for the repeal of Article 71 in the 1992 constitution.

Speaking on JoyNews, he noted that the conditions stated in Article 71 created room for discrimination against some public officers.

According to him, Article 71 officeholders are also public officers, and the provisions of Article 71 enabled the Article 71 officeholders to receive preferential treatment.

This, he pointed out, contradicted Article 17 of the Constitution, which spells out that there must be equality before the law, thus his advocating for the removal of Article 71.

“Article 71 should be deleted in its entirety because it appears to me to be it is inconsistent with article 17 of the constitution, which deals with non-discrimination," he said.

“All officers under article 71 are public officers, and so there should not be discrimination between the Article 71 office holders and all other office holders,” he added.

Additionally, Mr Fuseini stated that he believed that the Independent Emolument Committee has been recommended by the constitution review committee for Article 71 to be examined and substituted with a different arrangement.

Article 71 of the Ghanaian Constitution notes that the President must decide on the wages and benefits of those holding Article 71 offices based on the recommendations of a committee of no more than five people that he has appointed and that acts on the Council of State's advise.

The President, Vice-President, Speaker of the House, Chief Justice, and Justices of the Supreme Court are all members of the Article 71 offices.