Ghana politics has turned into a 'cult' - Kwesi Pratt

Kwesi Pratt, Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, has called for a massive change of the political climate in Ghana.

Contributing to Peace FM's 'Kokrokoo' programme, Kwesi Pratt noted that Ghana's politics has turned into a cult.

According to him, due to the clannish loyalty that people exhibit in politics; they readily commit violence to please their superiors.

To Kwesi Pratt, "they demonstrate their loyalty only by being violent...at most of the political party's headquarters, there are some people whose contributions are to fight and insult people."

He, therefore, called on the political parties to "move party organization beyond that. The party must become a machinery for intellectual expression...The party must become a machinery for looking at how to develop our society; for accessing the needs of our society and answering those needs."

He held strongly that if the parties fail to uphold these values and so "become like [a] football club. If it becomes like lodge and so on, the violence can only escalate."

He stated emphatically that the political game in Ghana must shift focus; "we should change the politics in this country. It will help us should we change. Violence in any form committed by anybody from any political party is wrong and must be condemned vehemently.”