Ghana’s laws are good and deterrent; the lawmakers were intelligent and deep-thinking when they promulgate the state laws; to deter citizenry from behaving like jungle-dwellers, where the fittest survive. But these laws often remain just as potent as the papers they are written on.
This seemingly impotent nature of our laws did not happen because the laws fail to click themselves into action, but largely because, those who make the laws click are lacking the strength and spirit to do so; and also the personality involves in the lawbreaking.
However, the tragedy of Ghana’s democracy has been the polarization of the whole nation on the line of belligerent politics existing between Ghana’s perceived two political parties – the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC). This is, day-in and day-out becoming a worry and threatening to create security crisis in the country and to her innocent citizens, who have nothing to do with day-to-dayparty politics.
Indeed, what a social deviant needs to escape grips of Ghana’s law as it pertains, is to look for, and don a political gown of one of the parties; and at least, approximately half of the country’s population would go to war in his or her defence.
In the recent famous case, Hon. Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, a lawmaker in Ghana’s Parliament from Assin-North constituency in the Central Region of Ghana, broke the country’s treason’s law, when as lawmaker and people’s representation in Parliament, he declares war and called on the Ashantis in Ghana to beat and hack the Ewes and Gas on sight.
The State Security people raised eyebrow, and Kennedy, an opinion-leader had to be taken into lawful custody, for, not only jeopardizing the country’s enviable security, but also endangering the lives of innocent and apolitical citizens of Ghana, as well as, calling for tribal war, his party, the NPP went mayhem, as its mobs took the Ghana police Headquarters to ransom. This would never happen in other nations whose democracy we religiously copy; and through which we became the toast of West Africa.
In Rwanda 15 years ago, a similar thing happened, which ramification consumed, in carnage frenzy, almost a million people: for recorders’ book, 800,000 human beings. Kanya also fell victim to similar political belligerency. But are the so-called African politicians learning.
Kennedy Agyapong as a legislator committed treason by declaring tribal war on a public platform of radio he established.
Let’s take for instance, the Assin-North constituents who trust Ken so much and voted him as their representative in parliament; listening to him as he strikes the war-drums, meet Ewes and Gas at the time or after: Let’s us not wait for International Criminal Courts: But let our laws work!