Joy News File
Aug 8, 2026 · 3 hr · 36 segments
Analysis and discussion of news and current affairs in Ghana with panellists
Aug 8, 2026 · 3 hr · 36 segments
Analysis and discussion of news and current affairs in Ghana with panellists
Samson Lardy AnyeniniHostDennis Miracles-AbuadjiPanelistSherif Mahmood KhalidPanelist
Godfred Alufar BokpinPanelist
Kwabena OtooPanelist
Kofi BentilPanelist
Alhassan IdrisuGuestIn any case, democracy does not only limit what a government or a state institution does.
Should we be discouraging persons who are described as fugitive abroad not to come and face the law? If we do that, would democracy be under CH? These are all fundamental questions we should ask.
But in any case, I sit back and I ask myself a fundamental question.
How is the introduction of tribunal system a dent on democracy? I would need some education, really, on this.
Because, look, if you have a tribunal on tax, it reduces issues of what? Maybe you go to GRA, you have your dispute with GRA over your tax liability, and you go to a tax tribunal.
Does it not reduce the burden of the judicial pressure we are talking about? We are unionists.
Does that not also help in accelerating and also watering down the pressure we are talking about? So if we have tribunals in such sense and we think that, oh, it is now time to bring up what happened in the PNDC, what happened in the judiciary.
But even in the first republic, when there was no tribunals, we have prevention detention.
Let's look at the data, not even from the government side, but from international institutions that are seen as watchdogs of democracy.
Where is our press freedom ranking today as we speak? Because that is part of the process of democracy.
democracy that is under siege, or is this data reflective of a democracy under siege?
We probably want to look at the Mo Ibrahim Index on governance and where we are.
I know, you know, politics creep in, right? We talk about invitations.
In any case, democracy does not only limit what a government or a state institution does.
Should we be discouraging persons who are described as fugitive abroad not to come and face the law? If we do that, would democracy be under CH? These are all fundamental questions we should ask.
But in any case, I sit back and I ask myself a fundamental question.
How is the introduction of tribunal system a dent on democracy? I would need some education, really, on this.
Because, look, if you have a tribunal on tax, it reduces issues of what? Maybe you go to GRA, you have your dispute with GRA over your tax liability, and you go to a tax tribunal.
Does it not reduce the burden of the judicial pressure we are talking about? We are unionists.
Does that not also help in accelerating and also watering down the pressure we are talking about? So if we have tribunals in such sense and we think that, oh, it is now time to bring up what happened in the PNDC, what happened in the judiciary.
But even in the first republic, when there was no tribunals, we have prevention detention.
Let's look at the data, not even from the government side, but from international institutions that are seen as watchdogs of democracy.
Where is our press freedom ranking today as we speak? Because that is part of the process of democracy.
democracy that is under siege, or is this data reflective of a democracy under siege?
We probably want to look at the Mo Ibrahim Index on governance and where we are.
I know, you know, politics creep in, right? We talk about invitations.
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