The Presidential Candidate for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Mahama, says the country has become a bad model of democracy.
Speaking on the second day of his tour of the Northern Region, former President Mahama questioned the independence of the Judiciary and the autonomy of state institutions.
This, he claimed, has led to global disappointment in the country’s governance model.
“Anywhere I go, the question people outside Ghana ask me is ‘Ghana, what happened to you? Kwame Nkrumah’s Ghana, what happened to you?
“Everybody looked up to Ghana as the model of democracy, today, we are a bad model of democracy, our judiciary is not independent, all our state institutions have been destroyed, people looked up to Ghana as a country that is a model of economic management, today, our economy is in shambles,” he said.
Mr Mahama criticisms come amidst the ongoing suit between Effutu MP, Alexander Afenyo-Markin and the Speaker of Parliament.
Mr Afenyo-Markin, initiated the court process after Speaker Alban Bagbin declared four parliamentary seats vacant.
The Supreme Court, therefore, issued a stay in Speaker Bagbin’s declaration. The Speaker also countered with a suit seeking to overturn the Court’s ruling that suspended his declaration of four parliamentary seats as vacant.
The Speaker’s legal team argued, among other grounds, that the Supreme Court lacked jurisdiction in this case.
However, after hearing arguments from all parties, including the Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, the Supreme Court maintained that its earlier ruling was appropriate, stating that the Speaker’s appeal was without merit.