Dangerous farce at Electoral Commission!

What is happening currently at the Electoral Commission (EC) is exactly that, a carefully contrived farce extremely dangerous to the constitutional order and the democracy we ar eenjoying. It is an exact replica of similar events in our country which led ineluctably to the destruction of the First, Second and Third republics. At the moment, the actors in the constitutional comedy are enjoying the ride, but the lessons and the end result could be dire for the type of government we have given ourselves since 1992.

I consider it a great pity that this plain constitutional lawlessness is happening under the presidency of President Akufo-Addo, the very person whose antecedents should have persuaded all of us that certain acts, though quite legal and constitutional, are extremely politically unwise. There are so many sides to the raging debates on accountability and good governance within the EC and the calls for action of some sort or the other that one may be led into the easy t

Kulungugu attempt

When Minister Tawia Adamafio and others were tried from the ‘’investigations’’ into the assassination attempt on President Nkrumah at Kulungungu, the special division of the Supreme Court which freed him and others was chaired by the Chief Justice, Sir Arku Korsah, with the other two members being William Benjamin Van-Lare and Edward Akufo-Addo, who himself later became Chief Justice and our President in the Second Republic.

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