Stop street demonstrations, go to court - Appiah Menka tells NPP

Mr Appiah-Menka observed that in some sister ECOWAS countries and many parts of Africa, election results tended to ignite “shameful explosives” that led to loss of human lives and collapsed economies.

“Happily in Ghana, there is the Constitution, which has in-built mechanisms to control these explosives after national elections, no matter one’s perception of the results.

“The rule of law and the multi-party democratic system which protect us all as one nation, one people, one thumbprint and one Constitution must be strengthened,” he added.

In doing so, Mr Appiah-Menka said, the resort to the courts to fight one’s case should not be condemned but rather encouraged.

He challenged the leadership of political parties, particularly the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the NPP, to control their followers from engaging in provocative utterances and actions after the Supreme Court judgement that could lead to a response from their opponents.

He also mentioned three “shameful and explosive evils” that were gradually and visibly becoming a norm in the last few years of the Fourth Republic.

Those evils, he said, were massive corruption at all levels of national life, naked tribalism and political-party polarisation of national issues.

“Unless the nation takes bold steps to address them, very soon we shall all behave like George Orwell’s Animal Farm in which, in the end, the animals outside looked from man to pigs and from pigs to man and from man to pigs again but it was impossible to find which was which,” he added.

Story by Kwame Asare Boadu