The most appropriate thing for the so-called peace-mongers to do now is to ensure that the factors which threaten the tranquility of the country are addressed swiftly on time for the Election Day.
And in so doing these campaigners should be fair and firm, regardless of whose ox is gored. So far they have not showed any sign of doing this, perhaps because they are obsessed with touching the peripheries and wasting everybody’s time with their cacophonous discourses irrelevant as they are.
Such factors are varied but the immediate one which comes to mind is rectifying the lapses in the work of the Electoral Commission (EC) which as things stand, do not inure to the peace the ad hoc groups are ostensibly campaigning for.
The campaign season is a money-making one, especially for the politically unscrupulous; those who play their cards well and politically correct are predisposed to making it and very big, now that the gravy train is cruising around the country seeking those engaged in subtle politics so they can be handed their portion of the spoils. Some of these peace-seekers are simultaneously demanding attention as they preach peace, the only way they would be identified and touched by the hand of the assigns of the presidency.
One of the so-called peace-keepers when there is no war safe the nurturing of the factors for its onset, is said to have turned his attention to schools ostensibly preaching the virtue. We can only regard such venture as useless and attention-seeking or eye-service as soldiers would describe it.
What have kids in schools got to do with elections when most of them were deliberately disenfranchised? It was funny he told the kids that as a franchised Ghana, he would vote in a particular direction. What a subtle campaign strategy clothed in the garb of peace-seeking. Political deception at its apogee is what someone described the hoax.
We do not intend obliging him an undeserved publicity and our reference to him is only a vague one.
When we hear about the cacophony about allowing peace to prevail, what comes to mind is the question as to whether we are at war or there are symptoms for such a vice. Such ingredients abound in the befuddled management of our electoral roll in the period before the Election Day.
We are not at war and will never be when all the prevailing variables are not disturbed by an institutional dysfunction as represented by the EC and its modus operandi. It is ironic and hypocritical that these aspects of maintaining peace are largely ignored by the so-called peace-seekers.
It is they who ignore the dangers posed by the malfunctioning and inefficiencies of the EC who are the loudest in their quest for a so-called peace in a country which is not at war.
Let them therefore, turn their attention to the EC and find out how incumbency mismanagement led to the shedding of blood in Walewale. That is the truth and not the mendacity they are peddling about so noisily.