Tim Seli

Contact: [email protected] Interests: Constitutional Theory, Philosophy of Language, Epistemology, Philosophy of Law, Human Rights Law, Legal History

[Tim Seli @KorkuSTD]

Ghana will continue to live.
I have to decide to live, too.

This is my final message of defiance and submission.

This is my final message of resilience and tiredness.

This is both a statement of defeat and victory.

[Tim Seli @KorkuSTD]

Change what policy?

You are missing terms.

There is no founders' policy.

Every country that has decided these questions has treated them as a political inquiry into which elements are worth considering in attributing that status.

To begin the conversation by presuming there is a policy someone needs to rebut is a mistaken, ritualistic idea of what the debate is about.

I am not here hero-worshipping the intellectual outputs of America or South Africa.

I am here setting out criteria that merit their own consideration. And your argument cannot be: why not copy America or South Africa?

I don't buy into such dogmatic thinking

[Tim Seli @KorkuSTD]

No serious person who paid attention to Ghana’s history thinks any political leader was Nkrumah's equal from 1951 to 1966.

And anyone who neither exercised executive authority nor took any action that significantly influenced executive policy towards the making of Ghana should be deemed a founder.

The UGCC was nothing more than a political party that never wielded real political power.
Any member of the UGCC, then, except in the first 3 years after its formation, is comparable in weight to Cheddar in Ghana’s politics today.

Quit the debate. There is nothing to debate.

[Tim Seli @KorkuSTD]

@nsoh_azure You are pointing to ARPS. Show how it significantly influenced executive policy on independence.

The floor is open.

Draw the causal chain— which isn't remote and casually disconnected by its demise and intervening colonial policies of the colonial regime
from 1916 to 1945

[Tim Seli @KorkuSTD]

A straight line from 51 to independence?
Your causal account of the history is not backed by any data.

If the 51 conditions of the 51 Constitution were to stand, there was no independence in sight.

It was a deeply backward constitution, with heavy colonial control over executive policy and many important matters excluded from legislative determination.

It offered no promise of independence, as positive action- many executive-sponsored white papers and the 54th and 56th amendments never followed

[Tim Seli @KorkuSTD]

Take your time and read the original post again. You are clutching at straws.

The quote is “ any action that significantly influenced executive policy towards the making of Ghana “

It means three things:

1. There must be an action
2. That action must be significantly influential
3. And that influence must bear on a policy decision of making Ghana — granting of Independence.

How are you comfortably referring to ARPS members with these criteria in mind?

Why are you conveniently quoting only “ influence on executive policy” without significance and towards the making of Ghana?

[Tim Seli @KorkuSTD]

@nsoh_azure Lawyers and misuse of burden.

You don't have the burden to prove why the other countries' criteria( assuming that's even their criteria) you refer to should be normative?

We should presume them to be, and I then bear the burden to rebut them?

Lol

[Tim Seli @KorkuSTD]

All protesters in Gandhi’s mass boycotts and protests are founders, then.— ridiculous

1. The qualifier there is “ significant”.

The 1948 riots, standing alone, weren't directed at an independence struggle.

The economic reasons dominated the political ones.

And the political ones were more about expanded participation than total independence.

2. And for mass protests, the attribution goes to organizers rather than to mere participants.

And we all know those who organized the March on the Seat of Government that paved the way for the riots.

[Tim Seli @KorkuSTD]

@nsoh_azure Why should we accept those people's criteria (assuming it is)?

What makes their criteria normative?

The question is an independent inquiry, not a historical account of what some people have said about their founders.

Who is a founder? Can be an original political inquiry

[Tim Seli @KorkuSTD]

Should not*

[Tim Seli @KorkuSTD]

@nsoh_azure Anyone who thinks Gandhi’s mass mobilization didn't significantly influence British executive policy toward Indian independence isn't talking about Gandhi.

Are you sincerely asserting that Gandhi’s actions didn't influence British executive policy toward India’s independence?

[Tim Seli @KorkuSTD]

@nsoh_azure What South Africans agree or disagree with doesn't become the standard for what has to be.

We can have a conversation about who a founder is or should be, without tracking what some people may deem it to be.

Their habitual thinking is not a standard.

[Tim Seli @KorkuSTD]

@nsoh_azure There is a disjunction there.
To ignore it and rely only on “executive authority” only, is to ignore the argument conveniently.

[Tim Seli @KorkuSTD]

If citizens want to be taken seriously, they will boycott every celebration connected to the 70th anniversary.

They will make a point that there is nothing worth celebrating about Ghana.

But will the citizens ever be radical?

[The Fourth Estate @fourthestategh]

At Kongo Senior High School in the Nabdam District, two temporary wooden classroom blocks remain in use about 10 years after construction, despite missing boards, excessive heat and poor sound insulation.

In March 2026, headmaster Martin Sebig Dittoh travelled to Accra to seek government intervention. He met Chief of Staff Julius Debrah, who directed that the school’s requests be forwarded to GETFund. He did but the school is yet to receive any of the facilities requested.

𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗦 𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗖𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗢 𝗕𝗨𝗬 𝗗𝗘𝗦𝗞𝗦 𝗔𝗦 𝗨𝗣𝗣𝗘𝗥 𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗧 𝗦𝗖𝗛𝗢𝗢𝗟𝗦 𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗚𝗚𝗟𝗘 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗜𝗡𝗙𝗥𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗗𝗘𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗧𝗦

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[The Fourth Estate @fourthestategh]

At Kongo Senior High School in the Nabdam District, two temporary wooden classroom blocks remain in use about 10 years after construction, despite missing boards, excessive heat and poor sound insulation.

In March 2026, headmaster Martin Sebig Dittoh travelled to Accra to seek government intervention. He met Chief of Staff Julius Debrah, who directed that the school’s requests be forwarded to GETFund. He did but the school is yet to receive any of the facilities requested.

𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗦 𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗖𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗢 𝗕𝗨𝗬 𝗗𝗘𝗦𝗞𝗦 𝗔𝗦 𝗨𝗣𝗣𝗘𝗥 𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗧 𝗦𝗖𝗛𝗢𝗢𝗟𝗦 𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗚𝗚𝗟𝗘 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗜𝗡𝗙𝗥𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗗𝗘𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗧𝗦

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[Tim Seli @KorkuSTD]

The concept of death is something I rarely think about, yet it is the thing that troubles me the most.

The nothingness of something is not only ontologically complex for my comprehension, but it is also socially cruel.

Death makes nonsense of life.

[SIKAOFFICIAL🦍 @SIKAOFFICIAL1]

UPSA Law School valedictorian, Rabiatu Wesoamu Jemimah, has died just weeks after graduating with First Class Honours.

Rabiatu, who was crowned Overall Best Graduating Student at the institution’s 18th Congregation on 25th September, 2026, passed away at a hospital in Accra on Thursday, 11th November, following a short illness.

[📸: Rabiatu Wesoamu]

[Tim Seli @KorkuSTD]

@scottjshapiro
What you said here hasn't been clear to me, even after reading it many times.

How different would this point of view be from Dworkin’s constructive interpretation that sees law in the best moral light?

If the internal attitude to the norms requires an ethical character as their ontological nature, i.e., being “ morally legitimate,” what makes them pure social facts?

[Tim Seli @KorkuSTD]

70 years of existence is meaningless if people cannot access decent transport, clean water, dignified classrooms for education, and, more importantly, be economically placed to cure hunger.

Ours is a story of 70 years of failure, misgovernance, corruption, elite state capture, and, fundamentally, the large-scale production of illiteracy and irrationality.

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[kojo veltins @veltinsJnr]

@yaron__zango 2 weeks ago... a son of my mum's friend died at the military training. He was bullied by some officers that he was late for training, was kicked in the ribs and died at 37. Unfortunately it hasn't made the news and the military are doing cover up.

[SIKAOFFICIAL🦍 @SIKAOFFICIAL1]

Ghanaian musician Wiyaala has visited Funsi Senior High School in the Wa East District of the Upper West Region to witness the deplorable state of the school’s infrastructure and add her voice to the concerns raised by students.

The visit follows complaints by students about the poor facilities and welfare conditions, which they say have been neglected by the authorities despite several appeals for improvement.

[🎥: Hajia Sissala]

[ed 🇿🇦 @NoHoe_Ed]

Got home to GTA 6 on the counter with a contract next to it 👀.