DO SOME OF GHANA’S PARLIAMENTARIANS NEED TO BE MORE HONOURABLE?

In a nation in which a majority of the male population is made up of philanderers, it is little wonder that misogyny is alive and well in Ghana. How else, dear reader, can one explain the astonishing news Ghanaians woke up to, one morning, not too long ago – when they learnt that the lady partner of a member of Ghana’s Parliament, who had gone to the police to lodge a complaint against him for repeatedly raping her at gun-point, had somehow ended up being charged by the police for deceiving a police officer? This was apparently shortly after the gentleman she had accused of raping her, appeared at the police station where she had gone to lodge the complaint against him. It was later reported that some members of parliament had “intervened” in the matter. The long and short of it is that yet another of Ghana’s many “big” men has been able to escape being prosecuted for rape – yet our prisons are full of ordinary men who are serving long jail sentences for rape. It appears that important personages in our democracy are above the law in certain circumstances. Whatever happened to the rule of law, one wonders?



This lack of principle amongst some of the members of our political class is one of the reasons why truth has more or less disappeared from our public life. An example is the outrageous way the murder of a father and husband who also happened to be the traditional ruler of the Dagomba people of Northern Ghana, is callously being treated as political football, by politicians in Ghana. How can any decent human being insist, for example, that those responsible for the gruesome murder of a fellow human being, somehow ought to escape being prosecuted for his murder: because he was killed during a “war” between Dogambas who belong to the same family tree – and top that outrage by going ahead to call a press conference to condemn the arrest and arraignment before the law courts, of a number of individuals suspected of being his killers? Surely, the time has come for those members of Ghana’s Parliament, who are wont to seize every opportunity that comes their way to score political points, to stop being so cynical? Do they not realize that it is losing them the respect of decent and independent-minded Ghanaians – who want our political class to be honourable individuals: not cunning hypocrites who will stop at nothing in their quest for power? The time has come for those members of Ghana’s Parliament, whose actions are so dishonourable at times, to be more honourable in what they say and do – if they want to retain the respect of discerning Ghanaians. A word to the wise…



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