ELECTORAL REFORMS
September 26, 2009

Elections are most essential in a democracy. Properly exercised, the right of suffrage is the most positive manifestation of the principle that sovereignty resides in the people and all government authority emanates from them. Prostituted, the process becomes the contrived way by which an elite minority legitimizes political dominion over the broad masses and more often than not, perpetuates the socio-economic inequities that our people must get rid of. There is therefore a compelling need to democratize the process so that the opportunity for peaceful access to political power would in reality be available to all. Concomitantly, the need for more safeguards and structural reforms in the electoral process is necessary so that the opportunity, when made available, would not be frustrated by machinations so often perpetrated by the same elites who have kept our Country in political and socio economic bondage in collaboration with their local and foreign cohorts.