GHANA’S POLITICS: TWO PARTY STATE OF A CAMOUFLAGE MULTI-PARTY DEMOCRACY. PART 1.
When Kwame Nkrumah became the first Prime Minister of Ghana in 1952, he didn’t pretend to want democracy though he had espoused same in his books. He observed that if he gave his colleagues the opportunity to form political parties based on ethnic and religious backgrounds, it would not augur well with the country. So he passed laws like The Preventive Detention Act, Nationality and Citizenship Act of 1957, etc to suppress people. Some of these laws gave Nkrumah and the CPP at the time the power to imprison people who publicly held dissenting views to his. An individual could be jailed for up to 10 years without any trial just for being outspoken. Kwame Nkrumah and his cohort may have gained independence for Ghana, but he also did his fair share of harm to the country because of his political agenda and persuasions. In its entirety, The Avoidance of Discrimination Act of 1957; especially section 3, (1) "An organization established substantially for the direct or indirect bene...