Minority Leader and Member of Parliament for Effutu, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, has renewed his call for an end to the cycle of political blame, urging the establishment of a national reconciliation system to strengthen Ghana’s democracy.
Speaking in an interview, Afenyo-Markin criticized the persistent political culture in which incoming governments focus on faulting their predecessors rather than governance.
He described this trend as a “vicious cycle” that undermines national unity.
“When will this vicious cycle end? No government can ever be perfect,” he stated, lamenting the habitual tendency of successive administrations to shift focus away from governance and instead concentrate on criticizing their predecessors.
The Minority Leader proposed a formal structure to promote reconciliation and help the country move past partisan divisions.
“Can’t we have a system in place to create room for reconciliation and tame some of these things?”.
Afenyo-Markin also took issue with the current government’s approach to governance, referring to the ongoing political “reset” as negative and exclusive.
“The reset should promote reconciliation; it should bring everyone on board”.
On economic matters, he expressed concern that Ghanaian-owned businesses feel more vulnerable than their foreign-owned counterparts.
“In today’s Ghana, Ghanaian businesses feel less secure than foreign-owned businesses. I have been talking to businessmen”.
Reflecting on his party’s electoral defeat, Afenyo-Markin acknowledged that the NPP failed to meet the expectations of the electorate.
“We are not in government because we failed to meet the expectations of ordinary Ghanaians. A new agenda was presented, Ghanaians bought into it, and now they are in office,”.
