There could not have been a time in recent times when Ghana was nearly driven to the brink by the recklessness of a politician, a Member of Parliament (MP) for that matter, than last week.
Inusah Fuseini, officially an honourable man, might have rendered an apology of a sort for his recklessness, but bits of the apprehension triggered by his uncanny action linger on frighteningly. Had the country been reduced to smithereens through the fire he was stoking, everything would have ceased to exist.
We would have rather the subject was laid to rest, given the ostensibly gentlemanliness of the legislator in bowing on his knees as a show of remorse, when his imbecility hit him in the face; but given the seriousness of what informed the attempt at messing up the country, we are left with no option but to broach the matter once more. This way, a recurrence could be obviated, especially as the country inches towards the 2012 polls.
It was a grand design, perhaps on the drawing board of a group of politicians, to whip ethnocentric sentiments for political expedience, but painfully to the detriment of the country�s peace.
Ethnocentric incitements such as the Honourable gentleman sought to undertake or even did but which failed, was not only ominous, but smacked of political mischief. What happened in an African country when such unwholesome enterprise was undertaken is so fresh in our memories that we think that confining the subject to the backburner would not be in our interest as a nation, the MP�s remorse notwithstanding.
We are tempted to think that but for the glaring lack of integrity of what the MP wanted to unleash, he would have prosecuted it, regardless of the danger it posed to the security and survivability of the country.
Given our multi-ethnic nature, the last thing we would have expected from a man of the MP�s stature was what he embarked upon but aborted midstream.
We hope and pray that having learnt his lessons from the bruised image he suffered, next time, he would think twice before embarking on any such wild projects whose dividends are nothing but a fractured and burning Ghana which we are not ready to countenance.
There are many shortcomings besetting governance today but the introduction of ethnocentric manouvres for the sake of political expedience should not be one of them.
We are grateful to the leadership of the largest opposition party, regarding the maturity with which they handled the issue when it was hurled at them. Such debacles call for the kind of maturity they exhibited and we must state that being members of such a formidable political grouping in the country, their tolerance level is very crucial in ensuring peace and stability.
May they continue to have big hearts to contain such desperate actions from immature characters who happen to find themselves in positions of authority.
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