Advocacy For Local Governance Reform
I will emphatically reiterate the words of the former US President, Abraham Lincoln who defined democracy as the “government of the people, for the people and by the people”. This quote may clearly ascertain cyclical form of power or mutual transfer of power from a group of people to another group. Also per the Greek etymology, democracy refers to a system of government in which state power is vested in the people or the general population of a state. Currently, Ghana has witnessed the highest forms of democratic decay or backsliding which resulted in the reverse of the tenets of sound democracy or governance and put citizens on economic and financial slavery. However, this is not my major focus rather some loopholes that I have identified in our well-planned decentralization roadmap documents, thus Local Governance Act, 2016 Act 936. The Act contained a well-structured decentralized system but may not ensure utmost accountability and transparency, it seems this might need strong ...