Dr Noagah Bukari, a research fellow at the Department of Peace Studies at the University of Cape Coast, has called for consensus-based democracy, where the majority and minority agree on issues for the common good of society.
He explained that the current democratic governance was not responding to the needs of the citizenry and a better option could be consensus-based democracy because the governance system is not addressing the needs of the people.
“Consensus-based democracy will promote a win-win situation and present a bipartisan approach to addressing issues of unemployment and corruption and the worst democracy is better than the best coup,” Dr Bukari said.
Commenting on the September 5, military takeover in Guinea, he noted that leadership and politicians must not refuse to work together so as to solve the needs of the people to avoid more coups because signs are they can become fertile ground for terrorists.
“Our people must be involved and must benefit from the democratic dispensation we choose to sustain peace, unity, harmony and cohesion to transform the society since it takes the majority and minority to build sustainable democratic system.
“The coup d’état in Guinea is unacceptable, though expected must be condemned because the governance system was not addressing the needs of the people but impoverishing them which must be a lesson for leadership to realise the needs of society must be paramount to governance,” Dr Bukari cautioned.
He intimated that issues of corruption, exclusive use of state money, power and amendment of the Constitution against the will of the people must be warning to leadership to rule according to tenets of the Constitution to avoid unpleasant situations.-GNA
