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Ghana's democratic roots capable of
preventing election anarchy - Bagbin
Ho, Jan 17, ghanadot/GNA - Mr Alban Bagbin, Minority Leader
in Parliament has said that, Ghana's resolve to chart the
path of democracy was so deep rooted to make the Kenyan type
political debacle hardly possible here.
The mood of the nation was also such that it would not
support any truncation of that process, Mr Bagbin said,
attracting the commendation of Mr Adusa Okechiri Majority
Chief Whip.
"The best system that humanity has developed is democracy",
Mr Bagbin asserted at a parliamentary forum in Ho on
Wednesday.
The forum, one of a series sponsored by the Friedrich Ebert
Foundation in the regional capitals aims at "strengthening
the Legislature through public engagement".
Mr Bagbin said the opposition's job in governance was not to
obstruct governance, but to criticize, unearth flaws of
government, smoothen the rough edges in governance and
present itself as a ready alternative government.
He said the opposition must be alert since governments, like
every human institution in competition would want to hide
their bad sides.
"We criticize to improve." "Opposing government without
proposing nothing is out of vogue", he said.
Mr Bagbin said it was with such understanding that Ghana's
fourth republican Parliament has appropriately adopted the
name Minority instead of the Opposition to reflect its
positive relationship with government and processes of good
governance in the country.
Answering questions Mr Okechiri said the level of
co-operation between the majority and minority in Parliament
is excellent and is 95 percent positive with the remaining
five percent being what the public witnesses during debates.
He said both sides of Parliament have always been guided by
their collective mandate of ensuring the growth and solidity
of the culture of good governance and democracy in Ghana.
Earlier the parliamentary delegation led by its Speaker Mr
Ebenezer Begyina Sekyi-Hughes called on the Chiefs and
Queens of the Asogli traditional Council.
A speech read on behalf of the Agbogbomefia Togbe Afede XIV
said true democrats recognize that the desire to lead is not
a matter of life-and-death and that the Opposition adds
colour to the election process”.
He said opposition is inevitable and desirable and that to
desire that all people "think alike is to wish away an
essential fact of life".
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