Our chiefs have been busy getting emotional and influenced by the gifts politicians bear visiting their palaces while on the 2016 election campaign trail.Some have continued in the shameful manner in which they publicly endorse President Mahama and Nana Akufo Addo or make unbelievable pronouncements against these gentlemen. They are doing it despite the sound advice and caution by Asantehene Otumfour Osei Tutu II.Obviously, these chiefs in this ugly debasing competition, for whatever I don’t want to know, clearly miss the point of article 276 (1) of our Constitution. The provision that “[a] chief shall not take part in active party politics; and any chief wishing to do so … shall abdicate his stool or skin”, is intended to protect and preserve your dignity and the noble institution, rather than deprive chiefs of any good thing.

I love, like many Ghanaians, Dr. Mensah Otabil. No, I don't just enjoy his teachings, I learn and feel better empowered each time I listen to the wisdom God has endowed him. I have never disagreed with him. But today I want to disagree with the bit of his recent statement of truth. He desires and notes that a key part of what Ghana requires to lift itself from being a perennial underachiever, with small minded subsistence thinking citizens unable to grow businesses like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, is for politicians to ensure a sane environment by legal regulation. The absence or lack of laws to regulate life isn't our problem. What area of life have we not, at least borrowed the beautiful laws of sane England to regulate? Sir, we even have a law on how to deal with mosquitoes. Our paid big men and women are currently busy lousily wasting our money fashioning out a law to compel us to do communal clean-up exercises when all that must be done is to simply enforce our laws that punish littering by up to 3,000.00 Cedis or three years in jail.

Today I dedicate my take to empathise a rejoinder.Earlier this week, the NMC issued a rather rare statement on the outcome of its determination of a petition by the Attorney-General against Super Morning Show host, Kojo Yankson.I represented Kojo in the complaint settlement processes over the A-G's disquiet about Kojo's comments in January alleging she had told him after the President media encounter, among others that she was not involved in processes leading to Ghana accepting to host the famous 'GITMO 2'.

A couple of weeks ago, I drew attention to moves towards a lousy needless duplicity and unconstitutionality of a law to punish people for littering as well as to compel citizens to undertake clean-up exercises on particular days. This was on the back of an announcement by the Local Government Ministry of a draft bill for the purpose because interest in the monthly exercise was fast waning.I read again early morning, on April 21, 2015, that the Deputy Minister of Local Government and Rural Development , Mr Emmanuel Agyekum, had expressed optimism that Cabinet was set to approve this for onward transmission to Parliament to be passed into law.

I have called it a pretty needless fuss and a derogation from the clear terms of the Constitution. Yes, that is just what those calls on President John Mahama to do “broad consultations” in the appointment of a new chairman of the Electoral Commission are.It is an avoidable sin against the Constitution he swore to protect - pure and simple. Those political parties and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) advocating and almost demanding any consultations outside of the clear injunction to the President to appoint “on the advice of the Council of State” in Article 70 (2), I say without any equivocation, are ill-advised and must halt the unhealthy unconstitutional crusade.The clear unambiguous terms of constitutions are not and ought not to be negotiated in the absence of crisis or potential crisis if complied with.

The Ghanaian law, generally, is that a person against whom a Commission of Inquiry makes adverse findings is constitutionally disqualified to aspire to be President of Ghana.It's such a big deal you can expect Nana Akufo Addo to use all the law he knows to fight Justice Apau's finding that he as Attorney-General failed miserably to defend Ghana's case and that "…clearly, the failure of the Attorney-General to make any appearance in the London Court after dispensing with the services of "Bindman and Partners" who were the external Lawyers of GNPC did not do the country any good. It was that failure that led to the entry of the ex-parte judgment against GNPC.