His Eminence Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, Chancellor of the Pontifical Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences at the Vatican, has called on institutions in Ghana to avoid becoming a “travesty of democracy.”

Speaking at the 2024 IDEG Ghana Speaks High-Level Forum in Accra, held under the theme “Advancing Peace, Unity, and National Cohesion in Ghana,” Cardinal Turkson emphasized that institutions must serve the people, rather than seek to be served.

“Every social institution must serve the human person and not the other way round. So democracy as a system and a form of governance must serve the human person and not the human person reduced to serving democracy.”

“…If any human institutions will get to the point of reducing us into servitude, then it’s time we call for a change of that institution. Democracy or the form of governance is meant to serve us, promote our well-being, and our common good,” he stated.