IEA Fellow lauds institution for improving Ghana’s democracy

Brigadier General Francis A. Agyemfra (rtd) said the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) had contributed greatly to qualitatively improve the nature of Ghana’s democracy leading to stability.

He said this stability was traceable to healthy inter-party relations developed through the medium of the Institute of Economic Affairs/Netherland Institute of Multi-Party Democracy (IEA/NIMD) Ghana Political Parties Programme and the Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC), which has led to peaceful coexistence among peoples of diverse ethnic and religious beliefs and backgrounds.

Brigadier General Agymfra, a Visiting Senior Fellow of the IEA said this on Thursday at the 2nd Round Table Session of an Exchange Visit to Ghana by Ugandan Inter-Party Organization for Dialogue in Accra.

He said Ghana had now indeed found a vehicle for building the necessary institutional capacity, inter-party engagement and the needed personal network that would enable Ghana to consign past rancor, bitterness, divisiveness, suspicion, hatred and acrimony, as well as extreme partisanship to dustbin of history.

Brig-Gen Agyemfra said political parties are increasingly realizing that no single party, no single government could do it almost alone.

“Therefore, whatever their party affiliation, whatever the colour of their party symbol and whatever their ideology, they have a collective responsibility to work together in the national interest in raising the standard of living and quality of life of all Ghanaians. When Ghana prospers, we all prosper,” he said.

Source: GNA