Moderates In The NPP/NDC Duopoly Must Control Extremists In Their Midst - For Democracy Is Also A Way Of Life Based On Tolerance

My heart sank, when I read media reports  about a recent press conference held at the Ghana International Press Centre, which was said to have been organised by the civil society  organisation, Coalition for Democratic Governace (CDG) that apparently ended in a near-brawl.

And when I learnt that the Exton Cubic Group's PR manager,  Mr. Samuel Gyamfi - who earned my respect for his masterful and measured performance in handling the company's response  to the cancellation of its bauxite prospecting license at Nyinahin - had lost his temper and nearly  manhandled the deputy communications minister, Hon. George Andah, as  he rebutted the CDG's claims that the Ghana Post digital addressing system amounted to a fraud, I became alarmed and deeply disappointed.

Does the erudite Mr. Samuel Gyamfi not realise the harm being a prominent member of a patently pro-National Democratic Congress (NDC) civil society organisation does to the image and cause of the company he works for? He would be wise to focus on his PR job with the Exton Cubic Group instead of playing politics with a political party with a severely damaged brand that the NDC of today represents. Hmm, Oman Ghana - eyeasem o: asem kesie ebeba debi ankasa. But I digress.

For the sake of all our people, those who criticise government policies ought always to offer better alternatives that will help move our nation forward. The question is: What national digital addressing system  does the CDG's Mr. Kingsley Morton and his friends propose that Ghana should adopt in place of the Ghana Post one as their much better alternative, one wonders?

For example, as it happens, even as we speak,  Koforidua's All Nations University College has a satellite in space. Are the many high-tech 'experts'  busy pontificating on this particular matter aware of its existence and the significance of the fact that it flies regularly over our homeland Ghana as it orbits the planet Earth? Ebeeii. Hmm...

The question there is: Instead of politicians fighting one another, why don't they rather think of how as a people we can leverage that satellite to better Ghanaian society, in all spheres of our national life - including underpinning a national digital addressing system with data from that valuable high-tech platform in space?

Finally, one's humble advice to our nation's political class: Democracy is not only just about institutions and constitutional concepts such as seperation of powers, and the checks and balances resulting from that, which are designed to prevent tyranny from emerging once again in Ghana.

For their information, above all, democracy is also a way of life, which is actually based on tolerance. Both the NPP/NDC duopoly's many decent-minded moderates owe it to Ghanaian society to control the intolerant extremists in their midst - lest their foolish rivalry tips Ghana over the precipice: and turns our lives upside down. Haaba.