General News of Thursday, 15 January 2026Source: www.ghanaweb.comThe Chairman of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC), Dr Nii Moi Thompson, has stated that extending the tenure of Ghana’s presidents would not automatically lead to better governance or development outcomes. “There’s no empirical basis, really, for it,” he said, adding that longer mandates could encourage inefficiency rather than productivity. “If I ask you to perform a certain task in an hour, you will do it in an hour. But if I ask you to perform the same task in six hours, you simply take your time,” he explained. Constitutional Review Committee proposes five-year Presidential termHe further warned, "Once tenure is extended, after a while they’ll come and say give us seven, give us ten.

Source: GhanaWeb January 15, 2026 15:22 UTC