Business government and previous Unilever Executive Vice President Yaw Nsarkoh says Ghana’s democratic adventure has did not translate into actual creativity.

He is caution that the rustic could have misunderstood the real objective of its political transition.

Speaking on Joy News’ PM Express on Tuesday after an educational engagement on the Noguchi Memorial Centre of the University of Ghana, he mirrored on Ghana’s trajectory over the last 4 a long time.

He puzzled how the rustic moved from a united push for freedom to what he described as a distorted type of democracy.

“When it started? I will not pronounce myself the final authority in Germany, but anybody who was at the front bench of the conversation about demilitarising the politics in Ghana and introducing what we today call a democracy, which I describe as a Santa Claus democracy, because it is not a true democracy, will tell you that there was a period of time where the single idea of the pro democracy forces was to create political space in order that people could be free, in order that the media could operate, in order that our civic responsibilities could be discharged in an environment free of fear.”

He mentioned the preliminary fight had a transparent and unifying function.

“And at that time, there was a significant amount of solidarity around that big idea.”

According to him, the point of interest was once easy.

“We wanted the military out of politics. We wanted more freedom, etc. And you saw real coalition.”

However, he believes the rustic could have been overly positive about what democracy would robotically ship.

“There is an extent to which we have to admit to a certain degree of naivety in believing that when we did get to this era of constitutional democracy, the big idea of development was going to take its place.”

His remarks come towards the backdrop of issues a couple of rising “winner-take-all” political tradition, which he suggests has crept into Ghana’s governance construction.

Reflecting on his go back to the University of Ghana and assessing the rustic’s firm creativity trajectory over 40 years, Nsarkoh implied that political freedom by myself has now not been sufficient to power sustained financial transformation.

While acknowledging the features in civic area and media freedom, his central argument was once that democracy will have to be anchored in creativity results.

Without that shift, he suggests, the promise of the democratic technology dangers being lowered to shape reasonably than substance.

For Nsarkoh, the problem now isn’t simply retaining political freedoms however redefining democracy in order that creativity turns into its core setting up idea.

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