The courts and our democratic development

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• Mankind 12 years ago

  Kobina be blessed!!

  Kobina be blessed!!

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• OLIVER TWIST 12 years ago

  ....................THE 8 REGIONS IN GHANA WILL NEVER EVER VOTE FOR THIS NATION WRECKING AND CRIMINAL PARTY CALLED NPP (NARCOTIC PEDDLERS PARTY)!
  
  NPP IS A CRIMINAL ORGANISATION - MURDERERS, ARSONISTS, THIEVES, LOOTERS, NAT ...
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  ....................THE 8 REGIONS IN GHANA WILL NEVER EVER VOTE FOR THIS NATION WRECKING AND CRIMINAL PARTY CALLED NPP (NARCOTIC PEDDLERS PARTY)!
  
  NPP IS A CRIMINAL ORGANISATION - MURDERERS, ARSONISTS, THIEVES, LOOTERS, NATION WRECKERS, NARCOTIC PEDDLERS!!!
  
  OLIVER WILL MOUNT A ONE MAN CAMPAIGN TO SINK THE NPP LEADERSHIP IN THE USA. OLIVER HAS ALREADY GIVEN NAMES OF POSSIBLE NARCOTIC DEALERS TO THE FBI.
  
  THIS IS WAR AGAINST THE CRIMINALS IN NPP!!!
  
  OLIVER IS "UNTOUCHABLE"!!!
  
  OLIVER, MAKA MAKA!!!.....................

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• OLIVER TWIST 12 years ago

  ,,,,,,,,,,,,Cool J, Ken is already on the LIST. This is a war that was started in 2002. I OLIVER TWIST (ALREADY KNOWN TO THE NPP PEOPLE) WILL MAKE SURE THAT THOSE TARNISHING THE GOOD NAME OF OUR HOMELAND GHANA ARE SAFELY BEHI ...
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  ,,,,,,,,,,,,Cool J, Ken is already on the LIST. This is a war that was started in 2002. I OLIVER TWIST (ALREADY KNOWN TO THE NPP PEOPLE) WILL MAKE SURE THAT THOSE TARNISHING THE GOOD NAME OF OUR HOMELAND GHANA ARE SAFELY BEHIND BARS IN THE US. I WILL DO IT AGAIN AND AGAIN UNTIL THE "BONES ARE ROTTEN"!!!
  
  I OLIVER WILL MAKE SURE I NAILED ALL THOSE NPP GUYS DEALING IN NARCOTIC TO GO TO JAIL IN THE USA!
  
  I OLIVER WILL NEVER REST UNTIL I HAVE STOPPED THIS NARCO PARTY FROM BRINGING THE NAME OF GHANA INTO DISGRACE!!!
  I OLIVER, ALSO KNOWN AS GHANA'S ROTWEILLER WILL MAKE SURE EVERYONE DEALING IN NARCOTIC IN GHANA GOES TO JAIL!!!
  
  I OLIVER --- I KNOW I AM UNTOUCHABLE!!! NOT EVEN NPP JUJU CAN GET TO ME....IT IS FACT!!!
  
  OLIVER, MAKA MAKA,...........

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• LONTO-BOY 12 years ago

  Dr Arthur Kennedy, this is very thoughtful. Lack of strong democratic institutions is the primary cause of failure of democracy in Ghana. The Judicial and Electoral Systems constitute some of the most important institutions o ...
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  Dr Arthur Kennedy, this is very thoughtful. Lack of strong democratic institutions is the primary cause of failure of democracy in Ghana. The Judicial and Electoral Systems constitute some of the most important institutions of Democracy. And where these systems remain deficient, the citizenry carry the burden of failure.

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• Ken Ntiamoa 12 years ago

  Kobina
  
  The EC and all institutions of state that seem chaotic is deliberate. Ghanaians know precisely what to do to make our country work to perfection. They don't do it because they can only steal from a chaotic environme ...
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  Kobina
  
  The EC and all institutions of state that seem chaotic is deliberate. Ghanaians know precisely what to do to make our country work to perfection. They don't do it because they can only steal from a chaotic environment or "system."
  
  You will live 100 years to see that after everything that has gone on, nothing significant will change because it is in nobody's interest to do the right thing.
  
  Ken

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• Osuo_Abrobuor 12 years ago

  To the SC panel from NPP leading members and supporters cannot be lost on any fair-minded individual.
  Last week we heard lawyer Sam Okuzeto tell Pres John Mahama to step aside and make room for his party`s presidential cand ...
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  To the SC panel from NPP leading members and supporters cannot be lost on any fair-minded individual.
  Last week we heard lawyer Sam Okuzeto tell Pres John Mahama to step aside and make room for his party`s presidential candidate Nana Akufo Addo. Yesterday it was another guy and today it is Art K. And what surprises is the brazen attempt by Arthur Kennedy to link the detours in this country`s democratic path to what he(Kennedy) considers as wrong decisions made by our SC. Good Heavens Heavens! Where was this guy when Busia made the infamous "NO COURT" pronouncement in the Salla case?

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• Richard 12 years ago

  "the respondents, the voters whose votes may be annulled" Dr, who told you some votes will be annuled? Are you the Judge? Just be there dreaming.

  "the respondents, the voters whose votes may be annulled" Dr, who told you some votes will be annuled? Are you the Judge? Just be there dreaming.

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• Abeeku Mensah 12 years ago

  There is a reason for the old adage for not comparing apples to oranges. Similarly comparing Ghana's pretentious democratic practices to accepted norms of best practices and procedures of democratic values will not do. J.B. D ...
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  There is a reason for the old adage for not comparing apples to oranges. Similarly comparing Ghana's pretentious democratic practices to accepted norms of best practices and procedures of democratic values will not do. J.B. Danquah was able to use article 13:1 of the 1960 constitution in his favor to win the release from detention of his clients because, just like everything Ghanaian, the parliamentarians who drew up amendments and addition to Ghana’s constitution did not have foresight or clear understanding of the effects of law, their application and implications.
  For example, the United States of America, the greatest democratic nation on earth, came up with its own PDA after the infamous 9/11 horrific attacks which most constitutional purist saw as anathema to the freedoms spelt out in the original articles of the constitution. But the congress of US after 9/11 understood the coming changing world. In Ghana those so-called law makers did not understand the coming dangers nor the prudence and foresight required to bottle up traitors, anarchists and agitators whose acts and pronouncements will and do encourage chaos.
  If referencing the short-comings of a nation then and now is a feel good moment in history for people, then that is well and good but in the end a true unbiased reflection of events past and now in Ghana only highlight a nation incapable of wisdom and foresight. It takes people with wisdom and foresight to draft documents that stand the test of time. You may want to look for those character traits in America’s founding fathers and not in tribally driven yahoos in Ghana. Ghana is not a bankrupt, corrupt, dysfunctional nation because of wonderful leaders of yesteryear and or today; it is because we have consistently lacked wisdom and foresight.

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• Dr. John 12 years ago

  Some will no doubt criticize what you have written. But it is the biggest difference between the two democracies, one grows and refines itself, the other is stagnant.

  Some will no doubt criticize what you have written. But it is the biggest difference between the two democracies, one grows and refines itself, the other is stagnant.

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• Kojo T 12 years ago

  What you should bear in mind is laws are made based on what is on the ground. The PDA was necessary because of the security concerns at that time just as the Patriot act. It is for that Lord denning said a good judge goes be ...
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  What you should bear in mind is laws are made based on what is on the ground. The PDA was necessary because of the security concerns at that time just as the Patriot act. It is for that Lord denning said a good judge goes behind the law to see the intention behind it. The US has the 2nd amendment abot carrying or gun ownership. when was the law enacted? in the era of the wild west. Law enforcement could not be on those widespread farm and the needed to defend themselves. Today it is recited as a gospel fact. PDA was a necesity

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