By Benjamin Anyagre Aziginaateeg

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We Observe With Dignity the 116th Earthday of Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah on the 21st September 2025!

Ghana has long stood as a beacon of democracy in Africa, celebrated for its peaceful elections and relative stability.

Its institutions promised inclusive development, participatory governance, and a democratic model for the region.

That promise is now under strain, revealing worsening state capture, corruption, and a widening gap between democratic ideals and lived realities.

Millions of youth in West Africa, are projecting the credibility of a military rule, due to the application of self dependent sovereignty, anchored on people’s dictatorship.

A productive democratic ownership without external teleguide, meeting the aspirations of citizens –

The Burkinabe Revolution

The December 7, 2024 elections symbolized a turning point, sounding the trumpet of a “people’s democratic revolution” to address growing public disillusionment in need of a reset.

The challenges are striking:

1. Commodified politics – Elections are financed by big business, ensuring preferential treatment once power is gained. Democracy is “for sale,” cyclical and capitalist in nature.

Recommended Measure:

Promote the critical mass of people, especially through the media (social media) to examine and question political parties sources of income, ie- flag-bearer aspirant fees.

2. Corruption and state looting – Public wealth is siphoned by elites and recycled into campaigns, while unemployed youth are pulled into transactional activism for survival.

Recommended Measure:

Independent institutional will of the electoral body to demand with deadlines for audited statements of political parties’ programs of action – associated with fraud to be named, shamed, exposed and expunged from the list of registered political parties.

3. Colonial legacies – Governance remains “teleguided” by external influences, sustaining anti-people structures.

Recommended Measure:

A conscientiously built leadership confidence, (basics taught at schools) interwoven with newly enhanced self-dependent structural systems at all sectors of production.

4. Ethnic affiliations – Tribal loyalties with large electoral compounds, do distort electoral fairness and fracture national unity.(i.e. gerrymandering)

Recommended Measure:

Unlock the tribal-electoral advantages, with a geo-electoral equity system offering opportunities for minority concerns.

5. Public disillusionment – Transparency, accountability, and probity remain rhetoric more than reality.

Recommended Measure:

Judges landing heavy punitive legal sentences, to make corruption scary and unattractive.

Many youth around the continent believe that military regimes, described as undemocratic—however, operated with directive principles and clearer stakeholder engagement.

The atmosphere of the Ghanaian democracy before 7th December elections, could be described as being handcuffed in the slaughterhouse, consumed by corruption, state capture, and elite dominance.

The question therefore is if democracy has been commodified and stripped of legitimacy, how can Ghana reset the system to serve the people and restore genuine equity and trust?

Afrikan Continental Union Consult -ACUC- , registered in Ghana as Afro-Continental Union Consult , insists that cosmetic reforms are no longer sufficient. What is needed is a transformative reset embodied in the dual vision of ORAL :

1- In the same democratic milieu, put forth an – ” Organized Revolutionary Action for Liberation” – a structural, people-driven movement to dismantle state capture, end elite dominance, and build a democracy anchored in accountability, equity, and citizen participation.

2 – Operation Recover All Loot – a practical agenda to reclaim stolen public resources, return them to collective use, and ensure that corruption is not only condemned but tangibly reversed.

Together, these meanings of ORAL reinforce that economic liberation is inseparable from restitution:

Ghana cannot reclaim democracy without recovering what has been looted from the people.

The remedy is therefore both ideological and material:

a reset that grounds democracy in –

– People-centered values,

– Ensures fair representation across tribes, restores public trust, and re-channels national wealth from elite pockets into public development.

Without this “dual action” – ( Organized Revolutionary Action For Liberation and the Operation Recover All Loot ), democracy risks devolving further into a deep seated capitalist tailored business venture for the few, instead of being a collective instrument of liberation for the many, the deployment of many youth into the poverty bracket is detrimental .

Benjamin Anyagre Aziginaateeg,Chief Executive Officer,AfriKan Continental Union Consult -ACUC-.