A former Member of Parliament (MP) for Hohoe South, Kosi Kedem, is reported by myjoyonline.com as saying that as a result of a blunder committed by Britain and the United Nations when the Gold Coast and British Togoland were brought together, Ghana does not legally exist.
“Resolution 1044 which recognises the recommended union, the same UN Resolution 1044 invited the British Government, which was the administering authority, to take such steps as necessary to bring about the union.
“So if a Trust Territory being ruled by the UN and a colony being ruled by Britain are to come into union, what do you do? You have to sit the two of them down for them to determine what type of government they want to have; what will be their responsibilities, obligations and benefits. No such thing was done,” he was quoted as saying.
Since the 1992 Constitution guarantees freedom of speech, Mr Kosi Kedem has the right to speak on national issues. We are, however, disturbed at the path he has chosen in the current disturbances going on in the Volta Region.
Mr Kedem served as an MP for Hohoe South for three conservative terms, starting from 1992. But, all this while, the MP did not know that he was doing an illegality, because the country he was serving was an illegal entity until he quit office.
Apart from being an MP, Mr Kosi Kedem has also served in various capacities, including the boards of some reputable institutions in Ghana, but again, he did not know that he himself was practicing an illegality because the country called Ghana does not legally exist.
When Kosi Kedem, who was one of the vociferous MPs in the Legislative House, brought his tenure of office to an end, he knew Ghana did not legally exist, yet he took his end of service benefits or ex-gratia from the illegal entity.
Criminals are currently masquerading as separatists in the Volta Region and causing all manner of confusion. One would have, therefore, expected that Mr Kedem, as a former MP who served in the region, he would use his rich experience to bring about peace, but he seems to be rather stoking the fire with the theory he is propagating.
Whether Britain, our colonial masters, failed to sign an agreement to concretise the union of British Togoland with Gold Coast or not, the two have stayed together for over five decades and are recognised as such by the United Nations.
In our view, the pronouncements being made by Kosi Kedem, if what he is saying is even true, would not inure to the benefit of his own people. Such pronouncements are rather feeding into the agenda of those fomenting trouble in his motherland, and emboldening them to carry on with the criminals activities they have started.
If the British did not consummate the marriage between the Gold Coast and British Togoland, the chiefs who are custodians of the land should have been the first people to complain, or even make the attempt to secede from Ghana.
But this has not happened. The chiefs are rather issuing statements to condemn what is going on in the region, and calling on state security to deal ruthlessly with the perpetrators of the crime. What Kedem is doing is a subtle way of telling these marauding youth who are blocking internal and international roads that they have a genuine case, which, in our view, is very unfortunate.
Interestingly, when the host of the programme where he made these pronouncements asked him whether he was a separatist, he refused to answer the question, saying it was a provocative one. Failure to provide a straight forward answer to the above question tells a story that what the so-called separatists are doing is illegal, and must never be condoned by any right thinking Ghanaian.
The Chronicle is, therefore, pleading with Mr Kedem to stop what we consider as dangerous comments he has been making on the airwaves. It will not help in the integration of Mother Ghana.
He should take a cue from what former President John Mahama is reported to have stated in the Bono Region – that if all the ethnic groups are to secede, there will be nothing left to be called Ghana.
Ghana is a land of peace in a troubled region, and we must jealously guard it instead of resorting to actions that would plunge all of us into the lake of fire.
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