Kofi Akosah-Sarpong

A ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament, Kojo Adu Asare, thinks a US$40 million corruption scandal that is rocking the NDC won’t affect the outcome of Ghana’s 2012 general elections and development in the country generally.

The Ghanaian enlightenment campaign is evolving. Ghanaian elites, for some time asleep, are fast getting involved in the enlightenment movement from their diverse stations in life.

Increasingly, leadership has emerged as a key factor in Africa’s progress. Bewildered leadership schemes have seen a good part of post-independence Africa sinking, some leading to horrible civil wars and state paralysis.

The suspension of Guinea by ECOWAS for the overthrow of a constitutional regime by its military signals the fact that the West African region takes democracy, as a development and stability vehicle, seriously.