Political analysts of our noble land have made us to know that the Ghanaian electorate is becoming sophisticated when it comes to deciding on whom to vote for. The Ghanaian voter is not credulous and therefore votes on issues. That is, looks more than just the face value of the issues that are suppose to be considered in deciding whom to vote for. The December 2008 presidential and parliamentary election is expected to be an issue based one and the onus has been placed on the prospective voter to decipher what is it that matter, and for that matter qualifies to be regarded an issue.

Some have called for the comparison of records of the various political parties canvassing to be voted into power as one of the issues that should be taken note of. It is interesting to note however that, in this respect, the New Patriotic Party (NPP), a monstrous but amorphous political entity, one of the parties lobbying for the mandate of the Ghanaian lacks anything that could possibly be described as “records”.

This is the party which boycotted the drafting (the constituent assembly) of the 1992 constitution. The constitution is set of rules that are used to govern Ghana. In fact the constitution is the ‘life part’ of the governing structure. The constitution of any democratic state is analogous to the heart of a human being. For a political party to boycott the formative processes of such an all important document and turn around and delude everyone that it believes in the ‘rule of law’; is an indictment. Which law does the NPP claim to believe in its rule? Is it the 1992 constitution which the NPP boycotted or some other law it is yet to tell us?

I beg to say here that the NPP has no morals. No rational person spits out and then licks the spit. The NPP cannot eat its cake and have it. The 1992 constitution which it boycotted is what has established all the governance structures we know toady. The Serious Fraud Office (SFO), the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO - which is occupied by unmeritorious cronies of government officials), the National Commission on Civic Education (NCCE), the Public Utility Regulatory Commission (PURC), the Energy Commission, and so on and so forth were all established by the 1992 constitution. These institutions are the motifs which build the superstructure called democratic state. In the absence of these state institutions, what would the governance of the nation have been based on?

You now see, the NPP has no records. They are missing! If boycotts were considered “records”, then perhaps that would be all the NPP has. The NPP is only credited with boycotts. The NPP boycotted the Value Added Tax (VAT) – which it is misapplying today, the GETfund- which money is being maliciously diverted into its so called NYEP and other frivolous ventures, the 1992 constitution -which it is deluding that it believes in.

Kwame Mawutor