Motions

Novice Finals

  • THO the granting of traditional councils the power to adjudicate and enforce decisions in civil disputes and minor criminal offences such as petty theft and assault within their traditional area, as a complement to the formal justice system.
  • Novice Semifinals

  • THBT Ghanaian youth movements (such as unemployed graduates and unpaid workers) should reject calls for "decorum" and respectability when addressing political leadership.
  • Novice partial semifinals

  • TH Regrets the commodification of urban public space in Ghana. Eg Beach Resorts , Astroturfs over dirt pitches
  • Grand Final

  • This House prefers an economic strategy for Ghana focused on maximizing raw mineral extraction volumes and immediate sovereign revenues over aggressively prioritizing domestic downstream value addition (e.g., local smelting, refining, and manufacturing).
  • Semifinals

  • This House believes that African News media with significant international reach example The Africa Report, should cover national and regional achievements over exposing state and societal failures
  • Partial semifinals

  • This House prefers the TCDA decentralized regulatory model to the COCOBOD monopsony model for Ghana’s primary commodity exports.
  • Round 9

  • This House Opposes the widespread belief that people who have committed violent crimes are inherently irredeemable.
  • Round 8

  • THP placing traditional Ghanaian football clubs (e.g., Asante Kotoko, Hearts of Oak) under registered fan and community trusts rather than corporate private investors.
  • Round 7

  • THS the golden rule
  • Round 6

  • THR the use of religious identity as a primary tool of electoral and political mobilization. (for example, appealing to voters as members of a faith community, framing political choices in religious terms, or encouraging support for candidates because they are seen as representing that religious group.)
  • Round 5

  • TH, as a heavily indebted developing-country government, would default on unsustainable sovereign debt rather than accept an IMF programme.
  • Round 4

  • THP Vertical Health Aid to Horizontal Health Aid
  • Round 3

  • THBT the normalization of "LARPing" on social media does more harm than good.
  • Round 2

  • THW formalize Ghana's Informal Sector
  • Round 1

  • THR algorithmic recommendation as the dominant way people discover music, film and literature.