Rt. Hon. Speaker Alban S.K Bagbin

The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has decried the state of the country’s democracy for failing to meet the aspirations of many Ghanaians. Delivering the 2024 University of Ghana (UG) Alumni Lecture, last Thursday evening, Mr Bagbin said even though the country had enjoyed more than 30 years of political stability, democracy had not delivered the necessary dividends to drastically improve the lives of people. “The question on many of our citizens’ minds is ‘has democracy really delivered’?  That is a very legitimate question,” he said. The Speaker partly attributed the problem to the 1992 Constitution, the basis…