A leading member of the New Patriotic Party, NPP, Dr. Arthur Kobina Kennedy has lamented intransigence among political opponents in the country.<\/p>\n According to him, there is the need for politicians to learn that democracy is about ‘give and take’ and not a case of forcing one\u2019s views and ideas on others.<\/p>\n The one-time flagbearership aspirant of the ruling party made comments on Metro TV in January 8, relative to what Ghana can learn vis-\u00e0-vis the January 7 Capitol riots in the US, which incident he says pointed to the fragility of American politics.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat we can learn is that democracy is about give and take. That nobody has a monopoly over truth, that we must all work together. I think that my way or the highway is too prevalent in our politics. And I think that people need to understand that when there is a divided Parliament, there are different perspectives. <\/p>\n He cited the case of Nigeria\u2019s 2022 budget signing where President Buhari disagreed with the legislature on a number of issues despite his party having the majority of reps in the National Assembly.<\/p>\n \u201cI urge our Members of Parliament, as well as those outside Parliament, like the current and former presidents to tone down, to let consensus work and understand that when people disagree with you, it doesn\u2019t mean that they don\u2019t mean well,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n His comment come barely a month after Ghana\u2019s Parliament witnessed its third open fight on the floor after Majority and Minority MPs clashed during a vote on the controversial Electronic Transactions Levy (E-levy) Bill. <\/p>\n According to the Majority Caucus, the bill remains in a healthy state and will be tabled for a vote when the House reconvenes later this month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dr. Kobina Arthur Kennedy A leading member of the New Patriotic Party, NPP, Dr. Arthur Kobina Kennedy has lamented intransigence among political opponents in the country. According to him, there is the need for politicians to learn that democracy is about ‘give and take’ and not a case of forcing one\u2019s views and ideas on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":248891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-742523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Dr.](\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/95976882.295.jpg\" "\\"Dr.")
Dr. Kobina Arthur Kennedy<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n