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Hon. Prince Lamptey, Chief Executive Officer of Pribet Group and Ghana’s Consulor to Guinea-Bissau, has called for a more thorough and inclusive constitutional review process, arguing that the current proposals fail to address one of Ghana’s most pressing development challenges — abandoned government projects.
Speaking in an exclusive interview following the presentation of the Constitutional Review Committee’s report to the President, Prince Lamptey said the committee must return to the people for broader consultations, as critical issues affecting national development have been overlooked.
According to him, successive governments’ failure to continue and complete projects initiated by previous administrations has cost the nation millions of cedis and stalled development across key sectors.
“They have to go back to the people. An important aspect vital to our development has been left out,” he stated.
Prince Lamptey noted that many infrastructure projects, including roads, schools, hospitals, and industrial initiatives, are often abandoned simply because they were started by previous governments. He described this practice as wasteful and detrimental to national progress.
He appealed to a successfulgovernment to take the National Development Agenda serious and also make it mandatory policy for other Government to follow.
Hon Lamptey hinted that for a example if you go to the western world they have a direct policy agenda and for that matter they only debate on the economy and employment rate in the country.
“Current governments often do not see the need or relevance to continue projects started by previous administrations. As a result, we lose several millions,” he explained.
The diplomat and business executive proposed a constitutional amendment that would compel every new government to complete ongoing projects inherited from its predecessor before initiating new ones. He believes such a provision would significantly reduce abandoned projects nationwide.
Prince Lamptey also emphasized the role of accountability, suggesting that inherited projects should be properly audited to ensure transparency before continuation.
“In terms of accountability, those projects can be audited, and the new government would then continue them,” he said.
Beyond constitutional amendments, he called for a deliberate national development policy with clearly defined timelines. Under such a framework, governments within specific periods would be required to prioritize particular sectors such as roads, education, or healthcare.
According to him, this approach would prevent the current trend of scattered and unfinished projects that often remain incomplete by the time a government leaves office.
“There must be a deliberate government policy with timelines. This will avert the situation where we have scattered projects that cannot even be completed before the government leaves power,” he stressed.
Prince Lamptey concluded that without structural reforms to ensure continuity and discipline in governance, Ghana will continue to struggle with stalled development and wasted public resources.
He applauded the good forsite of H.E.John Dramani Mahama for his tremendous contribution towards the growth of our Health, Agribusiness, infrastructural development and the establishment of NAIMOS Taskforce to combat illegal mining from the system.
The government has been able to transform our economic growth and sustainability of our currency exchange rate.
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