SAME SEX MARRIAGE IN GHANA

Why wont the prime minister of civilised Britain ask us (Ghana and Africa as a whole) to pass the same sex marriage law.
Britain may lead us financially, intellectually, resourcefully, operationally, call it any name. They may lead us in many ways but not in morals and ethics.
Britain may have morals and ethics but I am talking about the proper type.

But a nation without proper morals and ethics, its citizens go awry.
The very first day I heard the statement I secretly cried in my room which I guess no body knew. The tears of the man in the rain is only know to the man in the rain.

I know why I cried. The statement alone shows that Britain and not only that but most westerners have no respect for Africa.
I cried and wished I were the leader of A.U.

For long we had kowtow to the many pittance of these westerners and what then do we expect to hear from them?

Let all African nations first of all bow down their heads in shame before any comment

And let us all learn to drive our own wheel even if we cannot reinvent it

WHAT HAS POLITICS BECOME OF US?

Most often the wise people in the society think politics is not for them, and it is against this backdrop that I write this article.
If the wise think that politics is not for them then they risk being governed by the fools in the society.

Indeed, politics has taken over every root in our society, and today everything is all about politics. What we have failed to know is that the mere common people who we voted for into power tend to govern us far to the extend of paying no human respect for the same people who voted them into power.

Where are the patriotic intelligentsia of the land of Ghana?
I strongly believe that people of our likes need to stand up and kick against most of the gruesome acts of politics if we really want to redefine politics to solve our problems.

I propose a people cabinet for the constitution review committee of Ghana. How? There should be some reserved seats in parliament for independents bodies--people who are not affiliated to any political party or whatsoever in the society.
Today's societies, presidents have the gut to interfere with the law processes in our countries.How dare the president mingle law with politics.

Sometimes I just blame ourselves but most especially I blame myself for my inability to organise a group of young gallants on my own to invade the parliament and other reputable institutions of the land with our petitions.

Today, if one is not in politics or if one is not part of any political chamber s(he) should consider him/herself out of any better necessaries in the society.Which it should not be so
What really has politics become of us?

I call on anyone reading this very article to help educate the masses of whom they are deprived most of the basic necessaries like light, water, shelter and roads, any s(he) finds the self.Yet we are always quick to refer to democracy. This really does not make any economic sense in this very 21st century.

To Nelson Mandela we cannot talk of democracy when there is no real equality.
The reason being that, to me, most of these rural dwellers are totally oblivious of the fact that it their fundamental human rights to enjoy every necessaries being enjoyed by other people in the society, be it urban or the so called elites.
How could people in the urban sites enjoy most basic necessaries while the rural folks are deprived of these same necessaries. When in the actual sense they all pay the same indirect taxes in the country.

I strongly use this link to call on the judicial council to strongly and vividly put their feet on the ground and to properly scrutinize our 1992 constitutions as it is in its review process.
Because to me, it is totally absurdity for any person in the society to hold more than one position. How then do we expect the person to fully concentrate on the task tasked him. No man should be a member of parliament and at the same time a minister.

Judges I think should be in processes for life,that is should be in the government chambers to ensuring justice for life, and the president has no right to pardon political prisoners. This is totally inimical to the principles of the judiciary in any country and not only Ghana if we do not know.

What the judiciary invariably fail to realize is that for every time the government of the day interferes in their rulings, it put their intelligence also to questioning.

Having said this I strong demand that the powers of the president to appoint the key figures in the law jurisdiction be stripped off from him.
The president is just a common man just like me and you and should not be allowed to temper with the laws of the land.

What has politics become of us?
Let us all together stand up and educate in our own small ways to decrease the power and influence of politics in our society cos there are better and proper ways to govern any nation. There is the principle of customs, the church, elders, NGO's, private individuals, apolitical peoples etc.

Let's remember that politics is the main cause of our problems.

Lest one day we all wake up the sounds of nihilism in our society cos the people must have been fed up with the absurdities of our politicians and their fake magnanimity.

Today, we don't event talk about right and wrong in the nation.
Same sex marriage is given a cloth to shed her cold.

Let the patriotic intelligentsia of the nation stand up. Please let us stand up cos politicians are nobody.

Thank you very kindly for reading this scribbled article.

THE CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW COMMITTEE(CRC)

Ghana is preparing to amend its 1992 constitution which had long been in the system for quite a long time.A national tripatite committe could be engaged but it would not be of the strongest standing.

With this it is my strongest urge to the CRC to temper justice with patience as the constitution is one of the most volatile instruments any nation could yearn for.

The CRC should really take their time in addressing the constitution review process.
They should not be in a rash to amend the constitution.
The constitution is many years old and we as people of the nation can not afford to use few months or years to change its face and provisions.

We should all relax very kindly in our approach to the review excercise lest lives could be jeopardized, not only the least crucial concern, but could put the live of the whole nation in chaos, or precisely infamy that will emanate from the aggressive people we govern.

The CRC should seek the concerns of all stakeholders down to the very extent of reaching the people in context.

In this respect a council could be set up to meet the concerns and opinions of the general people. Instead of the normal routine of using their representative to represent them in person.

The constitution being the most authoritative law of the land should rigourously be scrutinized, pick and drop, drop and pick provisions to ensure a fair and equally streamlined concerns from all angles.

We should have the major patience in waiting whilst we seek and address the opinions of both past governments and government officials as well.

The West could come in with their contribution as well but first of all we need to begin writing our own story in the history books the way it should go.

We as people of Ghana should be very careful in our approach to the review process.
We should be able ask at the end of the day whether the constitution we had changed had being of enough prudence to us or not.

And as to whether we did benefit from it newly adopted provision or not.

As thoughtful and pertinence as they may sound the basic questions we should all be asking each other and one another include:

*Why the review?
*What would be reviewed?
*How would the constitution be reviewed?
*Who makes the credible constribution and how to approch the target contributors.
*How will the the review change to better the lives of the average Ghanaian citizen.
All these channel to proper rule of law and good governance.

The Good Failure of the United Nations(UN)

'The UN failed in addressing the post-election violence of the Ivorians',this was most people's comment during the wee-hours of that day.
'Why would the UN in the first place take sides in dispute settlement'.For a long time have we been making mediocre comments--comments that border on fallacy of irrelevant conclusion.

Yes,the UN did take sides as they may deem it.But,what they failed to recognise was the fact that,the UN did not just fail but failed at the right time.
Just like gambling you make a wrong move at the right time.

Africa is come of age--it is about time we held the bull by its horn.Sometimes you need to be harsh a little.
By Lord Action and common sense,we know power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
So what needs to be done?
Customary Law dictates that compliance with the rules in the Society is ensured through persuasion and not coercion.
But,we do know also that when persuasion fails force must be applied.
So how wrong was the UN?
Was Mr.Gbagbo not persuaded as deemed by the precepts of UN when he refused to cede power to Mr.Ouattara?

It is about time we as peoples,especially Africans,learnt how to look outside the box during political conflict and chaotic infamies.
Who did not witness the shameful obvious--when a faithful of Mr.Gbagbo forcibly pulled elections result from Electoral Officials?
Recall,we are non-violent with those who are non-violent with us-Malcolm X.
This is not say that the UN has been violent in their stance.
But,this is to say that what we all witnessed from the side of the UN was as a result of,'The Harsh that Harsh Produced'.

Who said that a return of Civil war is likely?
For me Civil war is out of the question.Because Mr.Gbagbo was not allowed to share power with his political rival Civil war is likely.
This totally borders on,Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc(because of that this).

November 28 Ivorian elections are over.
It is our onus to respect the principles of the body we choose to join.
It is about time we respected the rule of Law and democracy for our own good,the good of posterity and that of the world.
God bless Africa.

CONSTITUTION AND INDEMNITY

Indemnity clauses as in most constitutions have for a time now been opposed by many policy makers, political parties, opinion leaders with or without hidden motives and the usual out and easy going citizens of the nation.

To this effect, the basis of their arguments though may unwittingly bother on ignorant are that it:
1.Seeks to promote coup which abrogates a democratically elected government of the people to a sudden halt;
2.Protects coup makers;
3. Is not democratic a clause;
4. Is morally and ethically flawed and for that needs to be expunged from any kind constittution.

What most people fail to address is the oppositive aspect of the indemnity clause, and their inability to look at both sides of the coin in a critical, unbiased and constructive manner.

For indemnity, one is invariably right depending on the kind of angle chosen to liases with, but fails to be right when both sides of trhe angle is examined.

The fact and the logical aspect of the indemnity clause is that, indemnity in itself may be naturally flawed-- but not in logic and argument, and could be embraced by any state of moral and sound ethical ground of rule of laws and an effective judicial precepts.
Indemnity clauses are not illogical niether does it serve to pave the way for future coup makers to have the way for any kind of unjustifiable coup. However, the angles of an indemnity clause is highly volatile and has been the most talked about clause in a constitution which does serve to pave the way for future coup makers.

PLAYING LOGIC AND THE INDEMNITY OF A CONSTITUTION

Though indemnity clauses may bother on naturalistic fallacy as in, the making of coup is natural and for the fact that it is , then it is proper or good. This does not hold water though but holds when that coup could be justifiably acclaimed as the best within all alternatives and against all odds on the ground of logics.
However, I do not intend to beg the question,by attesting to the viewpoint that because coups are natural and they help to align a government in power to the right path, they are implicitly and explicitly good.

Biblical precept has it that, the status of a person should be respected though, but does not implicitly endeavour to highly acclaime it implicitly.
Children obey your parents( Ephesians 3) though does not include the reverence of elders could as well be thought to as a clause that involves both the elder in a society and the parent.

Playing logics, do we still obey our parent whose actions seem to set fire on the roof top of our building?
The logical answer which could ever come from any morally and sound persona would be the affirmative and not the opposite.

Due to basic human instinct, man is bound to deviate from moral principles when he knows that his back is invariably covered.
Indemnity clauses as stipulated and spelt in most constitution does not exist to promote coup or any kind of misdeminour or treason as a highly rated crime against the government in power.
However, does in some instances, when the rights and the liberty of the people in whom justice and freedom lie are subjected to interrupted flow of freedom and the equal access to basic right or fundamental human rights.

Historical precidents have made it clear that for the rules of the society to be widely acclaimed and respected by the people it does not require force instead persuasion.
However, history has shown it clearly that force tends to work the best whenever persuasion seems to fail to its highest point.

This article does not seem to support the view of coup makers or junta leaders who must have carried out coups one way or the other to justifiably address their concerns that could not be immediately addressed through the ballot boxes.However, seems to give some basic underlying principles that advantage the standings of indemnity clause as a provision in a democratically written constitution.

Invariably, the first act of coup makers before embarking on a coup is to suspend the constitution and its subsiquent provisions that seek to hold their views illogical and illegally incorrect.

CONSTITUTION AND THE INDEMNITY CLAUSE, THE CASE OF GHANA, 1966

In 1966, a coup led to the overthrown the then democratically elected government of the Convention People's Party spearheaded by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. The points that were given to support their argument for the coup included the economic hardship of the Ghanaian economy toppled by the high standard of living; preventive detention act; one-party system as a directive from the Convention People's Party to prolong its regime; laundering and misuse of state funds to tackle projects with a lost vision; enriching African states to achieve an codified and a unionized African continent; and the amountin g effects of inflation that overtook the nation by storm.

So you see, there we go , for the issue of indemnity can not be addressed with just a single click of a page of much filled arguments supporting only one side of the angle.

INDEMNITY CLAUSE, RECONCILIATION AND THE CAMPAIGN FOR JUSTICE

There is a half truth in the adage, justice delayed is justice denied. However, in the broadest perspective, there is no single logic in such statement.
If that were the case, why would the International Criminal Court be calling to investigate people who have carried out threats and brutalities ten or thirty years ago, against humanity and other unjustified acts that summount to injustice and the absconding of individual rights.
The inception of the National Patriotic Party ushered in the National Reconciliation Council that tried to settle issues amicably and to the spot of compensating many of the victims that were involved in brandishments and brutalities.
This act seeked to restore a kind of serenity in the politica atmospheres of Ghana environment, which then again insipidly restored the rule of law back to a state of jusice on one hand of the angle.

One theory passed by most of the critic of incemnity clauses is that, when these clauses are expunged from the constitution, it will help to surrender those who were involved in the making of the coup and its ploter to book and to justice.
What these people have failed to realize is that, the making of justice in this direction can be logically proven to sound to send signals of distortions into the system of the rule of law and the amassing peace surrounding the politica atmosphere of the nation on one hand.
One the other hand, the introduction of justice through this channel is as volatile as it already existed as in the indemnity clause.

Second, indemnity clauses in a constitution does not only promote coup in the right directio but also addresses to the topest level the alternative which is in existence when the government of the day is flawed and tiltered into the using of suppression to rule with the aid of the gun as a last resort.

Without much ado with this indemnity clause, I would like to state implicitly that indemnity clauses that exist in constitutions are justifiably correct and may not be understook within and without basic human instinct.However, could be understook when the grounds of logic and ethical standings are laid and allowed to bear.

In politic cum allowances and salaries given to political figures, I would always refer people to America's first President, Washington.

On his day of inaugural ceremony promised not to take a penny from the people of America. Simply because the presidency was not superimposed but just a call to service.

Down here in Ghana, leaders fight over allowances and salaries given them. The recent issue is about a proposed raise in their salary amid this current high standard of living which was exacerbated by high spikes in petrol prices.

So guess you should understand me when I say politics in Africa is that type which is done in the bedroom. No leader cares about the cries of the populace.

The pertinent question here is that, what actually is the work of members of Parliament in Africa where politics is the bedroom type.

What Ghana and most African nations are lacking is strong pressure groups. Pressure groups that that would get governments on their toes and to quicken them to work reasonably.

When The Poor Shows Off

There is a hot debating tension about the incident that-the first lady of Ghana, Naa Adu Mills, has handed over a $48,000 dollar watch to Michelle Obama as a gift. This 'news' has really stirred enough displeasing tensions in the capital, Accra.

The satirical and dehumanising aspect of the whole issue is that;Why would a president who invariably claims that he cares for the nation allow such a thing to happen, and why would Ghana, an already poor country offer such an expensive gift to already rich couple?

For every rumour, there is an iota of truth in it somewhere. I had always advocated for a nation that is concurrently filled with demonstrations, as a way of pressing forward their unheard cries and pain.

The recent tension in Tunisia, an African country, is one of those things I do yearn for. It is about time Africans realized that, the leaders could not offer them any sort of help. And that,it is either we start taking the bull by its horn or we all complain in aw and die before we die in penury.

The people of Ghana are recovering from a recent despicable hikes in the domestic petrol prices, of which had already burdened the living standard of the economy. The question is, how do we even cope with such a volatile issue, that vividly and conspicuously translates into barbaric actions that the leaders of the country are very wicked. That, they are still after their personal, interest even at the highest peak of economic hardships.

This has prompted me to think that, in fact, when idiots are elected to rule the literary ignorant people, it really hurts.

May God save Ghana.