SAINT-AYISI SAMUEL

Public procurement is the process by which governments and other publicly-funded entities acquire goods, works, and services needed to implement public projects. It accounts for at least 15% of the world’s gross domestic product (GDP), and even more in African countries. The Public Procurement Authority (PPA) is the institution mandated to ensure public procurement in the country. The PPA is established by the Public Procurement Act, 2003 (Act 663) as a regulatory body responsible for the effective implementation of the Public Procurement Law in Ghana. The Authority seeks to ensure fairness, transparency and non-discrimination in public procurement in order to promote a competitive local industry and increase the confidence of varied stakeholders in public procurement processes in the country and beyond. The Public Procurement Law, 2003 (Act 663) is a comprehensive legislation designed to eliminate the shortcomings and organizational weaknesses which were inherent in pub...

The Writer Examinations at the Ghana School of Law for the professional certificate have come under huge criticisms due to massive failures of students yearly. Some complain of questions out of the syllabus, other students also complain of unknown marking schemes set, to assess the students. There is a school of thought out there who argues that there is an attempt by the General Legal Counsel and the Chief Justice, to control the legal education system by their own will. A cursory look at the utterance of the Justice Sophia Akuffo, “If people want to do their own law practice, they can go on the internet. Members of the public can go on the internet and turn themselves into lawyers if they want to.” The Chief Justices utterance gave some section of the public a view that the massive failure of some law students is a deliberate attempt to limit the number of students who would be called to the bar. In a rebuttal to some of these claims, the General Legal Counsel (G...

The Writer The Pension Scheme of Ghana as in many African nations, started as far back 1950 in the colonial times. The legislation regulating the Pension Scheme at that time was the Pensions Ordinance Number 42 (Cap 30). The United Kingdoms retirement plan for the country's working class involved the set-up of a number of provident funds, which were subsequently transferred into a basic social security scheme in 1965. The growth of the pension sector necessitated greater control and monitoring. This led to the establishment of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) in 1972, to administer the Social Security Scheme. It was later identified that the existing SSNIT pension was not providing adequate security for retirees. The phenomenon led to the then President to establish a commission to deal with the matter. The Presidential Commission on Pensions in 2004 was put into place to address these concerns, and its recommendations led to the passing of ...