{"id":14834,"date":"2022-02-02T18:40:30","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T18:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/uncategorized\/our-democracy-must-solve-security-food-problems-kwesi-pratt"},"modified":"2022-02-02T20:00:32","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T20:00:32","slug":"our-democracy-must-solve-security-food-problems-kwesi-pratt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/our-democracy-must-solve-security-food-problems-kwesi-pratt","title":{"rendered":"Our democracy must solve security, food problems- Kwesi Pratt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Ghana. <\/strong><\/span> Mr Kwesi Pratt, a veteran Journalist, says it is important for African leaders to realise that the only way to sustain democracy on the continent is to ensure that citizens are well catered for.<\/p>\n

He, therefore, advised leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to reconsider its approach of imposing sanctions anytime a coup occurred.<\/p>\n

He said sanctions could not stop coup in Africa or anywhere else in the world, stressing: \u201cIf our democracy does not solve the security problems of our population, does not put food on the table and does not provide jobs and so on, then that democracy cannot be sustained.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was speaking at a ceremony to commemorate the third anniversary of the Ayawaso West-Wuogon by-election, characterised by violence. He said matters of violence in democratic dispensation should be of concern to every citizen irrespective of political affiliations because it was a criminal act that subverted the will of the people.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose who introduce violence into our politics subvert democracy. Those who introduce violence into politics, rig elections. You introduce violence to intimidate other people to run and not take part in the elections\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf our people come to realise that the only way to win an election is to win a gun battle, how can you sustain democracy? Once civilian administration uses the gun to stay in power, their opponents may be tempted to use other means to remove them from power,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, the General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress, raised concerns over the \u201cmanipulation of democratic systems and structures for the personal interest of individuals or groups of persons,\u201d which he said created a breeding ground for deposing democracy.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026And the thing is that when the \u2018owners of the gun\u2019 come, they will not say we are doing away with incumbent and leave the opposition,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The NDC General Secretary, therefore, said it was important for the opposition to speak against any dealings that threatened the sustainability of democracy in the country.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Ghana<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Ghana. Mr Kwesi Pratt, a veteran Journalist, says it is important for African leaders to realise that the only way to sustain democracy on the continent is to ensure that citizens are well catered for. He, therefore, advised leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to reconsider its approach of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":14833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,7,8],"tags":[5092,5096,7166,429,7167],"class_list":["post-14834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-ghana","tag-democracy","tag-ghana","tag-pratt"],"yoast_head":"\nOur democracy must solve security, food problems- Kwesi Pratt - Ghana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mr Kwesi Pratt, a veteran Journalist, says it is important for African leaders to realise that the only way to sustain ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/our-democracy-must-solve-security-food-problems-kwesi-pratt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Our democracy must solve security, food problems- Kwesi Pratt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mr Kwesi Pratt, a veteran Journalist, says it is important for African leaders to realise that the only way to sustain ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/our-democracy-must-solve-security-food-problems-kwesi-pratt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ghana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-02-02T18:40:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-02-02T20:00:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2022\/02\/img-61fae2bde4f96.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/our-democracy-must-solve-security-food-problems-kwesi-pratt#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/our-democracy-must-solve-security-food-problems-kwesi-pratt\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Our democracy must solve security, food problems- Kwesi Pratt\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-02-02T18:40:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-02-02T20:00:32+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/our-democracy-must-solve-security-food-problems-kwesi-pratt\"},\"wordCount\":361,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/our-democracy-must-solve-security-food-problems-kwesi-pratt#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2022\/02\/img-61fae2bde4f96.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Ghana\",\"democracy\",\"ghana\",\"Pratt\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/our-democracy-must-solve-security-food-problems-kwesi-pratt#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/our-democracy-must-solve-security-food-problems-kwesi-pratt\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/our-democracy-must-solve-security-food-problems-kwesi-pratt\",\"name\":\"Our democracy must solve security, food problems- Kwesi Pratt - Ghana\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/our-democracy-must-solve-security-food-problems-kwesi-pratt#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/our-democracy-must-solve-security-food-problems-kwesi-pratt#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2022\/02\/img-61fae2bde4f96.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-02-02T18:40:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-02-02T20:00:32+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Mr Kwesi Pratt, a veteran Journalist, says it is important for African leaders to realise that the only way to sustain ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/our-democracy-must-solve-security-food-problems-kwesi-pratt#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/our-democracy-must-solve-security-food-problems-kwesi-pratt\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/our-democracy-must-solve-security-food-problems-kwesi-pratt#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2022\/02\/img-61fae2bde4f96.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2022\/02\/img-61fae2bde4f96.jpg\",\"width\":720,\"height\":480,\"caption\":\"Our democracy must solve security, food problems- Kwesi Pratt\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/our-democracy-must-solve-security-food-problems-kwesi-pratt#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Our democracy must solve security, food problems- Kwesi Pratt\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/\",\"name\":\"Ghana\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Our democracy must solve security, food problems- Kwesi Pratt - Ghana","description":"Mr Kwesi Pratt, a veteran Journalist, says it is important for African leaders to realise that the only way to sustain ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/our-democracy-must-solve-security-food-problems-kwesi-pratt","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Our democracy must solve security, food problems- Kwesi Pratt","og_description":"Mr Kwesi Pratt, a veteran Journalist, says it is important for African leaders to realise that the only way to sustain ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/our-democracy-must-solve-security-food-problems-kwesi-pratt","og_site_name":"Ghana","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2022-02-02T18:40:30+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-02-02T20:00:32+00:00","og_image":[{"width":720,"height":480,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2022\/02\/img-61fae2bde4f96.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/our-democracy-must-solve-security-food-problems-kwesi-pratt#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/our-democracy-must-solve-security-food-problems-kwesi-pratt"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Our democracy must solve security, food problems- Kwesi Pratt","datePublished":"2022-02-02T18:40:30+00:00","dateModified":"2022-02-02T20:00:32+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/our-democracy-must-solve-security-food-problems-kwesi-pratt"},"wordCount":361,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/our-democracy-must-solve-security-food-problems-kwesi-pratt#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2022\/02\/img-61fae2bde4f96.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Ghana","democracy","ghana","Pratt"],"articleSection":["all news","community","head lines","homepage-english"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/our-democracy-must-solve-security-food-problems-kwesi-pratt#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/our-democracy-must-solve-security-food-problems-kwesi-pratt","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/our-democracy-must-solve-security-food-problems-kwesi-pratt","name":"Our democracy must solve security, food problems- Kwesi Pratt - Ghana","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/our-democracy-must-solve-security-food-problems-kwesi-pratt#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/our-democracy-must-solve-security-food-problems-kwesi-pratt#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2022\/02\/img-61fae2bde4f96.jpg","datePublished":"2022-02-02T18:40:30+00:00","dateModified":"2022-02-02T20:00:32+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Mr Kwesi Pratt, a veteran Journalist, says it is important for African leaders to realise that the only way to sustain ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/our-democracy-must-solve-security-food-problems-kwesi-pratt#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/our-democracy-must-solve-security-food-problems-kwesi-pratt"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/our-democracy-must-solve-security-food-problems-kwesi-pratt#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2022\/02\/img-61fae2bde4f96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2022\/02\/img-61fae2bde4f96.jpg","width":720,"height":480,"caption":"Our democracy must solve security, food problems- Kwesi Pratt"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/our-democracy-must-solve-security-food-problems-kwesi-pratt#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Our democracy must solve security, food problems- Kwesi Pratt"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/","name":"Ghana","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}