Banks, who served the 1986 Constitution Committee as director of its legal department, last Friday publicly confessed that members of the commission, including its chairman, Dr. Amos C. Sawyer, inserted certain provisions into the document to favor the People’s Redemption Council (PRC). It was during this period of review that the impunity clause for members of the Peoples Redemption Council was entrenched in the document, according to sources close to the Commission at the time. Justice Banks also claimed that they agreed to reform the constitution in the future to have make what he described as the necessary correction. He also said since 1986 there has not been any effort by the government to make the necessary amendment. Banks said he was mentioning the issue because that was the same problem that they have with the Circuit Courts that needs urgent reform.

Source: Daily Observer May 08, 2018 02:26 UTC