In fact, when we abandoned the parliamentary system in favour of the presidential system in 1964, the argument given was that we needed a strong presidency for purposes of national unity. It did not take long before some of the architects of the strong presidency and the one-party system started to regret. That single-party system and the strong president started to imprison political opponents without trial. Two, the awful distance between the individual and political power has been drastically reduced. The attraction of the parliamentary system of government is that it will do away with this concentration of executive power which is detrimental to our democratic and economic development.

Source: The Star May 11, 2019 21:06 UTC