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Graphic Online BY: Kobby Asmah 705 Against all odds, we have a new Speaker from the opposition party. This is historic as it is the first time such a feat has ever-happened in the Fourth Republic with a Speaker not from the ruling party but rather from the opposition. Since Ghana returned to democratic rule on January 7, 1993, the country has had seven Speakers of Parliament. They are the late Justice Daniel Francis Annan from 1993 to January 6, 2001; Mr Peter Ala Adjetey from January 7, 2001 to January 6, 2005; Mr Ebenezer Begyina Sekyi-Hughes from January 7, 2006 to January 6, January 2009; Mrs Justice Joyce Adeline Bamford-Addo from January 7, 2009 to January 6, 2013; Mr Edward Doe Adjaho from January 7, 2013 to January 6, 2017; Prof. Aaron Mike Oquaye from January 7, 2017 to January 6, 2021 and now the current Eighth Speaker, Mr Alban Kingsford Sumana Bagbin, who assumed duty from January 7, 2021. ....
After three failed attempts to govern democratically on its own, Ghana ushered in its Fourth Republican Constitution in 1993. This was after a number of military coup d états that stretched from post-independence in March 1957 to 1981. With Kwame Nkrumah’s Convention People’s Party (CPP) government being the first casualty of a coup d état in 1966, other military juntas followed in 1972, 1978, 1979 and 1981. The military coup d états which became a common feature of the Ghanaian political terrain also became repulsive to many Ghanaians, with many people craving for democratic rule. But such desire could not be achieved easily as the military juntas at the time were unwilling to allow for civilian rule, denying the people’s sovereign right to elect their own leaders. ....