There is only one Creator. For that one almighty creator, though, sometimes he has his creation questioned by evolutionists. He had known ahead about the potential criticism. Yet he went ahead to generously give that brain to man and woman who would turn evolutionists. It all shows his preparedness to tolerate and accommodate constructive criticism from the evolutionists.
Among us mortals are creators less than he the Creator. They are handed the power of rule and regulation, the power of constitution and law to create. This power they are required to use for the public good or, to be exact, in the constitutional public interest.
That notwithstanding, these lesser creators may relish and use the creation power given to them by the 1992 Constitution of the Fourth Republic of Ghana when they think they must or when they like.
And so against the wise counsel of an old man who has been able to perform a miracle, together with other brains he so ably succeeded in assembling, of transforming a HIPC economy into a lower middle income economy in an astonishing reality within eight years.
A man like that speaks knowingly. He knows how to balance talk and action; and he knows how to pull a nation together to enable positive transformation in the lives of his people.
Just forget the smoothness of an election and think for a moment about the simple economics of creating 45 constituencies, three months before an election, as I said last week. The implication of negative financial costs is huge; it cannot be a cost-effective venture. Add to that the potential danger of a confounding election process and things become very worrying.
We are supposed to set an example for the rest of Africa. So creating constituencies three months to election is best practice for Africa to follow!? In my, and in the view of many, many of my compatriots, the challenge is not to implement the law anyhow.
The challenge is daring a government which seeks mischief by usurping the power of the EC to illegally create electoral areas to compel the EC to create constituencies. One would have thought the EC would have stopped the executive from creating electoral areas, particularly in a situation where my compatriots do not know how many heads were counted where in the population and housing census.
Honestly, the impression, the right one, is that constituencies can be created anyhow without any rational basis.
Omanpanin Kufuor?s is not a presidential wisdom that should be pooh-poohed; for, in his wisdom, he built Jubilee House. Congresspeople poured scorn on him for building that Jubilee House. In one of their flimsy and futureless pranks, they chose to name the edifice Flagstaff House, giving the cynical reason that the great Kwame Nkrumah lived there.
Today, the same people are looking for an excuse to go and live there, in the Jubilee House which was built by the wise president and which the unwise wanted to turn into a cemetery but for the unanimous objection by my compatriots.
Like Kwaku Ananse who in his moments of regret said: ?AwerEfire na Emaa me kaa sE me kyiri abeteE? (?It is forgetfulness which made me say that I didn?t eat abeteE meal? when he realized that was the only meal available), they have now set up a committee, more k?nom tea, to justify their imminent move into the place.
So Mr Constituency creator, suit yourself. Time will tell whether this was the best you could have done for the motherland for all the glory that she has poured on you. If that is your way of thanking her, so be it.
Go ahead and create 45 constituencies three months to crucial general elections ye wise person who was able to without any census figures, and with your own register compiled, post facto create constituencies because you think the law says so.
Go ahead; just go ahead. This Republic will not perish. The motherland will survive. She has seen worse things. But one day, one day, I hope you will not scratch your head and ask why you had to do that.
Certainly, if legality was both a means and an end in itself, there will be no need for deontological search for ethics as complement to law to form the moral basis for reasonable human and public action. Anyway, if the conduct of elections were guided by ethics, maybe no officer of the EC would have supervised constituency elections in constituencies in the process of being created when there is the possibility that they might end up not being created.
Take heart Mr President. Thanks for the timely advice. Compatriots, who care much about the motherland as themselves understand and appreciate your effort as action that will promote peaceful 2012 elections.
By Kwasi Ansu-Kyeremeh
