The beauty of democracy, lies not only in the ability of the electorates to elect their leaders, but democracy also provided the people with the constitutional remit to hold these leaders to account especially in the disbursements of public funds.
Responsible leaders don’t wait for their citizens to ask for accountability before being accountable to them. They always make the system open to scrutiny without being prodded to do so.
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This leadership requirement is predicated on the fact that, democracy itself thrives on accountability and transparency, and once you divorced these principles from any democratic governance, then the system has lost its essence, value and integrity.
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