14 August 2008
editorial
Yesterday Wednesday August 13 2004, parliament started debating the GT/Vodafone agreement. The day before, that is Tuesday August the 12th, NDC presidential candidate, Professor John Evans Atta Mills led a group of his party's supporters to demonstrate against the deal.
A number of CPP activists have filed a writ in court trying to stop the deal. The government has also been holding firmly to its position on the deal. Other individuals and organizations have come forth with one idea or another regarding the deal, and over all, it's had much public airing.
One place it has to play out, we hope, with much civility and enlightenment is parliament. That is where those elected to take such decisions are. The streets can be used to press forward a point of view; the courts can come in to explain the separation of powers, but it is in parliament that the binding legislative decision would be taken.
We hope all of us understand that, because after having our say, some arm of the state would have to have its way. That is the nature of democracy.
Let us therefore see an informed and enlightened debate in parliament, for one thing all these "noises" are agreed on is that GT cannot continue in the way it's been going. Something has to and must give if Ghana is to reap the full benefits of its telecoms assets and potentials....
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