At the time of composing this leader, the President, Vice President and the Speaker of Parliament are all not at post.
The acting Chief Justice was at post though, but he was not sworn in to act as President as per the ruling of the Supreme Court sometime back.
Is that how reckless we can be as a country?
It is a gargantuan anomaly which requires somebody in the Presidency to address. That no written correspondence has originated from the Presidency to address same is a testimony as to how bad things have gone in the country.
We are constrained to query the President for allowing this vacuum to persist for the number of days that we have been without an acting President.
Such constitutional anomalies should not be allowed in the future because of the security implications thereof.
We are constrained to think that the President has acted the way he has because of the absolute majority he commands in Parliament.
He is confident that nothing can happen by way of an impeachment because, after all, he commands the numbers. Â This is clearly a constitutional breach traceable to the President.
Let the Council of State advise the President about such anomalies and their implications on governance.
Have we as a country been at such a milestone before? No is the answer.
Whichever government official is responsible for managing the traveling plans of the three top officials of state could have done a better arrangement of their schedules.
Many Ghanaians do not even know about the glaring anomaly. Even if they do, only a few of them appreciate the vacuum and the negative implications thereof.
The acting Chief Justice, thanks to the suspension of the substantive Chief Justice, under the circumstances cannot go near the throttles of state because he has not been sworn in as prescribed by the constitution.
What the situation means is that Ghana at this time has nobody to direct affairs of state, be it ceremonial or otherwise.
We demand an unambiguous explanation from the President when he returns, because the people of this country bestowed upon him the task of managing a sovereign nation for four years.
That none of the heads of the other arms of government are available to run the country is a suggestion that something is wrong with the governance of this country.
Strangely, the subject is hardly on the front burner of national discourse as it should be.
This subject is as important as the Sammy Gyamfi dollar spray, let us keep talking because truly something is wrong.