Ours Not A Failed State

 

Democracy is the best means by which the rights of the citizenry are ensured, and those who choose their governments have a say in how policies are implemented, including management of the state kitty.

This form of governance, because it is associated with decency, is claimed by most countries, even those who are outright dictatorships.

Those who coined it inserted provisions within it lest citizens do not traverse the red lines of decency, even as they enjoy their rights as citizens.

This way, foolishness and outright lunacy is not allowed to blemish this beautiful and decent form of governance.

Regardless of the foregone, however, instances have been witnessed which pass for abuse of democracy.

Those who practice the opposite of democracies, although they lay claim to it, deride the abuses which democratic governments endure in their everyday practice.

In the unfolding segment of our democratic experience in the country, a lot of shortcomings have been witnessed, the management of which have pushed the government to the wall. From the spread of misinformation, disinformation to treasonable acts, the government of Akufo-Addo has kept its calm.

The right to demonstrate is one of the attributes of democracies, there is no doubt.

While it is the right of the citizenry to demonstrate, it beholds them to do so with utmost responsibility and decency.

It is for good reasons that those who intend to embark upon demonstrations must inform the police so that the necessary precautionary measures are taken by the law enforcement department to forestall the thug-like conduct put up by those who were demonstrating last week.

The vandalism by the so-called Democracy Hub was shameful and not commensurate with the status of the leader who is supposed to be a lawyer.

We do not know what triggered the risen level of adrenalin in those who partook in the protest march. We can venture a conjecture however: something which can influence otherwise normal human beings to behave irrationally. Opiod?

It is often thought that certain crude behaviours are noted among a certain class of humans. Those who attain a certain level of education should not be seen to be engaging in acts such as attacking police officers, and tearing the paraphernalia of rival political parties.

The demonstration led by Oliver Barker- Vormawor last week leaves a lot to be desired.

For somebody who is yet to be cleared of a previous charge in a court of law, the last thing we would have expected of him was what he spearheaded last week.

Commuters and motorists were inconvenienced last Saturday because of the so-called demonstration.

Ghana is not a failed state; it is a sovereign state ruled by law.

Those who should know better this reality yet embark on foolish protest marches with the intention of making the country ungovernable should bow their heads in shame.

Their political and treasonable project will not be condemned by former President John Mahama; we can vouch because it inures to his interest. The thuggery demands condemnation by well-meaning Ghanaians.

While we join others in commending the police for tolerating the nonsense, especially the provocative aspect, we would be quick to demand that, that should be the last time of smiling even when they were under attack by political lunatics.

As for those already arrested, they should face the law.

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