Mr Emmanuel Kofi Antwi, Obuasi Municipal Director of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), said it was the collective responsibility of all Ghanaians to ensure that the seed of democracy that had been sown germinated and grew to fruition.
"It is our collective responsibility to ensure that the democratic seed that is sown germinates and grows to fruition, there could not have been a better place in black Africa than Ghana for such a good beginning," he said.
Mr Antwi was delivering a lecture on "Political Parties, Conflicts or Consensus," attended by women and youth groups and civil society organizations in the Obuasi Municipality.
He said multi-party democracy was good as it had sound principles of separation of powers, checks and balances, adding, "It ensures that power is not concentrated in one hand as power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely".
Mr Antwi said the new era that had dawned on the country had eclipsed the regimes of militarism and that the young democracy needed the tenderness of care it deserved to grow and be sustained.
"It is against the background of understanding our own situation that we must be selective and focus on the immense challenges ahead of us,'' he said adding, "whereas we must take inspiration from the well-developed democracies, we must as well be cautious of blind imitations".
Mr Antwi noted that as the country drew closer to elections, "we must come closer together as one people to jointly address the issues of consensus building and conflict resolution".
He said in passing judgment on these, one had to place the nation's interest above all other considerations.
Therefore it was not just consensus building, neither conflict nor conflict resolution that should be sought, but what it meant to the nation, he added.
Mr Antwi urged Ghanaians to pray that the country remained peaceful and a democratic state till "we find a system that would be better than democracy".