The Minority has proposed sweeping reforms to ensure automatic compliance with the constitutional requirement that at least five per cent of total national revenue be allocated to the DACF.
Mr Annoh-Dompreh suggested that Parliament should amend the Public Financial Management framework to create a first-line charge mechanism, ensuring DACF allocations are computed automatically upon revenue inflow.
“The principle is straightforward,” he said. “If other statutory funds can receive structured and predictable releases, then a constitutionally entrenched fund must enjoy even stronger protection.”
He further recommended embedding DACF computation into the national budget architecture and publishing quarterly revenue inflows alongside corresponding DACF accruals.
According to him, transparency would eliminate ambiguity and prevent future disputes.
The Minority Chief Whip emphasised that the reform is not about political advantage but systemic discipline.
“Constitutional compliance must be engineered into the system. It must not depend on goodwill,” he stated.
He argued that such structural safeguards would shield decentralised development from fluctuations in executive priorities.
