The Majority Leader, Mahama Ayariga, has emphasised the need for accountability among the country’s political class, particularly when there is a transition in government.
Speaking on the Floor of Parliament on Thursday, February 14, 2025, he warned that failing to uphold accountability would pose a significant threat to Ghana’s democracy.
“Let’s not, when there is a change in government, try to hold each other accountable this way or that way. I take a position that, indeed, the reason the voters go and vote for one political party as against the other is so that they will come and hold each other accountable. The day that we stop holding each other accountable, that will be the day the electorate will lose confidence in this democracy.
“And when they lose confidence in this democracy, that is the end of democracy in Ghana. So, we must hold each other accountable. When we vote for a new party and the party comes, they owe a duty to those who voted them to hold those who have been taken out accountable,” he stated.
Ayariga also raised concerns over the prolonged prosecution of individuals without securing convictions, stating that such practices undermine the justice system.
“If the republic of Ghana prosecutes a citizen for eight years and is unable to convict that citizen, then there’s a problem. There is a problem. How can the state mount a prosecution for eight good years with all the resources at the disposal of the state and yet not be able to convict that citizen or at least get a ruling on that citizen? Either you are guilty, or you are not guilty”, he noted.
Watch his remarks in the video below:
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