Lawyer and Researcher, Oliver Barker-Vormawor, says the amendment of the current constitution must be a collective responsibility and not a project assigned to a few individuals.According to Mr Barker-Vormawor, should the amendment of the constitution be left in the hands of a few, it would be brought back as constitution without a "soul".

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“When we call for a new Constitution, we are calling for something much more than gathering a few lawyers, a few article 71 office holders and a few friends of the regime who will huddle in a Kempinski Conference room; to produce for us another document without a soul, just like our current one.""A new Constitution is a process! Not an event. It is an opportunity to rebuild our society’s belief and desire for change from the ground up.

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We must knock on every door; we must engage every citizen and we must implant in all of us a new belief for change," he added while speaking on JoyNews.According to him, the rhetoric that the 1992 constitution is perfect and that Ghanaians are bad people should be entirely ignored and treated with the contempt it deserves.

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“In all my life and that of those before, I have never seen any nation built out of angels and a people without blemish,” he said.He noted that those who often advance this argument are people “whose palm kernels have been cracked by the benevolence of the gluttony that this era has enabled.

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They have made themselves rich from the profligacy of this era of greed, and now they shape-shift as intellectual apostles whose only aim and ambition is to preserve a status-quo that has dealt very well with them.”He warned that their tactic is one to demoralize well-meaning Ghanaians seeking change to stray from their path and accept the status quo to their own detriment.

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“Instead by making you doubt the urgency of your aspirations; by invalidating your dreams and your equal claim to re-imagining a better society; they succeed in preserving the status quo. Be wary of them,” he warned.

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