The Head of Public Sector Governance at the Commonwealth Secretariat, Prof Roger Oppong Koranteng, has commended Ghana’s parliamentary leadership for demonstrating maturity in coming together to resolve recent legislative challenges.

This comes after a joint appeal from both the Majority and Minority caucuses, which prompted the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, to revoke the suspension of four Members of Parliament due to their involvement in the chaos that erupted during the appointment committee session on Thursday.

In an interview on Joy FM's Top Story on Tuesday, February 4, he noted that despite being a relatively young democracy, Ghana’s political evolution is evident in how leadership from both the majority and minority sides collaborated in the resolution process.

Comparing Ghana’s democratic journey to that of the United Kingdom, Prof. Koranteng highlighted the vast differences in experience.

“Ghana is about 33 years into this republic, while the UK, one of the oldest democracies, has had continuous parliamentary sittings since 1236, evolving over nearly 900 years,” he said. Despite this, he emphasized that Ghana is on a steady path of development and institutional strengthening.

He described the current developments as part of the natural evolution of a democratic system. “

What we are going through is a way of evolving and maturing. Looking at how this particular episode has been resolved, you can see the growing maturity, as majority and minority leadership came together. For a long while, they had not done that, but now we see progress,” he remarked.

Prof. Koranteng urged Ghanaians not to be overly worried or discouraged, describing the challenges as “teething problems” in the country’s democratic journey, adding that “We are going to encounter bumps along the way, but that is part of the process. Democracy evolves over time, just like it has in the UK.”