Mr President, well said but ...

Yesterday, President John Dramani Mahama delivered the State of the Nation Address as required by the 1992 Constitution.

As expected, he spoke on the erratic power situation that has gripped the nation and other burning issues such as corruption, education, health, security, transportation, sports, among others, that are dear to Ghanaians.

 First, we commend the august House for extending to President Mahama the courtesies and decorum due the high office of President, as we had entreated in our editorial last Thursday.

For the first time in the Fourth Republic, there was no heckling of the President as he delivered his address to Parliament. The usual boos, jeers and temporary distractions that had characterised the delivery of State of the Nation addresses were conspicuously missing.

While heckling sometimes makes politics and democracy exciting, we posit that reverencing the highest office of the land requires a different approach, which is the rout