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BY: Ajoa Yeboah-Afari
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It wasn’t exactly the overwhelming ‘aseda’ (thank you) votes for President Nana Akufo-Addo that some of us had expected, as I wrote last week, but he has won a second term “to do more”. And victory is victory.
Nevertheless, the crushed expectations seemingly indicate a kind of protest from some quarters, from the grassroots.
Anyway, the tsunami-like devastating impact of the results of Election 2020 on the Members of Parliament holding ministerial portfolios, the MPs-cum-ministers, also appears to provide a pointer to the need to complete the review of the Constitution of the Republic of Ghana, 1992.
By Rabbi Prince Joseph Tomoonh-Garlodeyh Gbaba, Sr., Ed. D.
Introduction
Liberia is Africa’s oldest ‘Democratic Republic’. What this means in legal and constitutional terms is that as a Democratic Republic the decisions that govern the people of Liberia are made or should be made by MAJORITY of the Liberian people, not one or two individuals but the overwhelming majority of the Liberian taxpayers and eligible voters. Therefore, being a democratic nation, it also means the power is squarely vested in the people of Liberia, and the voice or will of the majority MUST PREVAIL. Consequently, it means what most of the Liberian people want is what must be done. Therefore, if the handful of individuals to whom power is entrusted by the people go contrary to the unanimous decision or will of the majority, then the status quo is butchering democracy or the will of the people by the people!