Democracy in Ghana now a commodity, driven by vote buying and poverty – Prof Alhassan

The Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University for Development Studies (UDS), Professor Eliasu Alhassan, has warned that democracy in Ghana is increasingly being reduced to a commodity, with political power influenced by money rather than the will of the people. He made the remarks during JoyNews Impact Makers Foundation’s programme dubbed “Democracy is […]


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