Kwesi
Pratt Jnr., Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, has rubbished
calls for a Union Government to be established after the Supreme Court
ruling.
According to him, it would be a “direct subversion of the
1992 constitution” for the nation to experience an all-inclusive
government because “the Union Government idea was resisted by mass
movements including the Trades Union Congress…the Ghana Bar Association,
Professional Bodies Association and so on” during the historical days
of the country.
Addressing his concern on Radio Gold’s ‘Alhaji
Alhaji’, Mr. Pratt described as ‘bogus’ the idea for a Union government
and therefore was of a strong view that Ghanaians should be given the
opportunity to exercise their rights, thus, tolerate one another’s
differences.
The tolerance of differences of each person and the
promotion of competition in the political spotlight, he said, was the
principal reason why Ghanaians opted for a multi-party democratic
system.
The multi-party system “will open up the political space
and allow ideas to compete freely”, so if the element of competition and
difference of opinion be scrapped, “multi-party democracy collapses.”
He
believed an all-inclusive government as pontificated by some political
leaders in the country will not augur well for the nation’s democracy.
“What
kind of tension do we have in Ghana necessitating measures which will
more or less amount to the declaration of a State of Emergency?” he
questioned. |
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