Editor-in-Chief of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt has asked those who claim that Ghana's multi-party democracy was originated by the National Democratic Congress under the leadership of the late former President Jerry John Rawlings to refrain from making such statements.
Setting the record straight on Peace FM's "Kokrokoo" morning show, Kwesi Pratt stated categorically that people fought with their lives for Ghana to have multi-party democracy and that it is an error for any person to credit the NDC or the late President Rawlings.
"I get infuriated when I hear that multi-party democracy originated from the NDC. This multi-party democracy we have attained, some people lost their lives for us to arrive here. The sitting government, if it was happy with the restoration of multi-party democracy, no person would have died. No person would have been arrested", he averred.
He added that he knows "people who died because they advocated multi-party democracy. I know people who were arrested because they advocated multi-party democracy. Today, we have multi-party democracy because of the collective struggles of hundreds of thousands of people. It wasn't Jerry Rawlings who gifted us multi-party democracy; stop saying this!"
"I think it's an insult to the memory and the gallantry of those who fought for the restoration of multi-party democracy. Let's stop making such statement; it has no basis in our history!", he snapped.
