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CDD-GHANA STATEMENT ON THE APPOINTMENT OF MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT TO GOVERNING BOARDS OF PUBLIC AND QUASI PUBLIC CORPORATIONS AND AGENCIES
The Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) wishes to express its grave concern regarding the President's recently announced appointment of several Members of Parliament to chair or serve as members on boards and governing councils of state agencies and corporations. It is the Center's long-held view that such appointments undermine our current efforts to promote good governance and consolidate democracy in Ghana. In particular, the practice whereby Presidents appoint MPs, including some members of the Parliamentary Leadership, to extra-parliamentary quasi Executive-positions is harmful to the already weak system of checks and balances that underpins Ghana?s constitutional democracy.
Afrobarometer Global Report Released
The Afrobarometer Secretariat has released its Round 4 Global report at a ceremony in Accra. Overall, across 19 countries surveyed in 2008, support for democracy stands at 70 percent, but there is wide variability, from 39 percent in Madagascar, to 85 percent in Botswana.
 Now Available at CDD-Ghana and other Bookshops-Watching Democracy in Ghana
It is a must-read for all kinds of people but perhaps the President of the Republic should read it and make it compulsory for his Cabinet and all other state functionaries, Members of Parliament, DCEs, assembly members, security services personnel, teachers and all kinds of traders. All these people feature in one way or the other in the book. But above all, journalists must make it an inspirational companion both for the management of facts in a story and the writing style. Djan Appenteng
Watching Democracy in Ghana
Three competing notions of democracy come to mind as I read and re-read Watching Democracy in Ghana, the compilation of Democracy Watch, which will be launched on Thursday, February 26, 2009. Democracy Watch is the flagship publication of the Ghana Center for Democratic Development, CDD, an independent, non-profit, non- partisan research think tank based in Accra.
"Polarisation of media erodes public confidence"
The programme Director for Media Foundation for West Africa, Mrs. Jeannette Quarcoopome, has said the polarization of the media along political lines during the 2008 elections have eroded the trust of the public in the profession.
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