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Message: [QUOTE="Queen, post: 87790, member: 27"] A push to split Ghana's accounting department from the Finance Ministry just got shut down by the civil servants who actually run the system. CLOGSAG opposes CAGD independence [LIST] [*]Isaac Bampoe Addo rejected the Constitution Review Committee's proposal at a Wednesday presser in Accra. [*]CLOGSAG argued that the Controller and Accountant General's Department functions as an implementing arm of the Finance Ministry. [*]Splitting it off would pile on bureaucracy, per the association. [*]Salary processing and payment coordination could grind slower under separation. [/LIST] Why the justification fell flat [LIST] [*]Daniel Appiah, CLOGSAG's internal review committee secretary, said the CRC's reasoning was thin. [*]Institutional confusion and weakened fiscal coordination were flagged as risks. [*]Appiah stayed open to discussion if stronger arguments surfaced. [*]Nothing in the committee's report convinced CLOGSAG that the change would help. [/LIST] Fiscal council pitched instead [LIST] [*]CLOGSAG wants an Independent Fiscal Responsibility Council baked into the Constitution. [*]Parliament-only legislation gets suspended too easily, per their argument. [*]COVID-era suspension of the Fiscal Responsibility Act was cited as proof. [*]Constitutional entrenchment would block governments from ditching oversight on a whim. [/LIST] Other CRC proposals are catching flak [LIST] [*]Council of State gaining vetting power over senior public-service appointments got rejected. [*]CLOGSAG said merit-based hiring should stay with governing councils and the Public Services Commission. [*]Article 197 needs "may" swapped to "shall" for binding governance regulations. [*]Tying local executive elections to population or economic thresholds would undermine equal political rights. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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