Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr. Afriyie Akoto has said, the history of the country’s multi-party democracy cannot be written without the role of his father Baffour Osei Akoto.
He stressed that his father was instrumental in stopping the one-party state which was being perpetrated by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah’s led Convention Peoples Party(CPP).
Addressing a media ahead of Baffuor Osei Akoto memorial lecture being organized by the KNUST law school as part of their annual law week celebration, Dr. Akoto said, the event will highlight the achievement of the late Asantehene’s linguist in Ghana’s multi-party democracy.
The Baffour Akoto, and seven others case in 1959 according to the Agric Minister has been prominent in the legal history of Ghana.
“The implication for our constitutional development was enormous because after the overthrow of Nkrumah one party’s system and the Preventive Detention Act, all constitutions that have governed us as a people enshrined in it the provision that no Government can detain the citizen without proof of what they have done and that is the backbone of our political development,” he said.
Source: Ghana/Kasapafmonline.com/102.5 Fm/Isaac Bediako
