Thursday,
June 28, 2012
The controversy surrounding the
creation of 45 new constituencies by the Electoral Commission is troubling. So
also is the anger that the government’s creation and hasty inauguration of 46 new
districts and choice of their capital towns.
While the EC’s action may be
justified with precedent and supported with evidence of population figures and
the need to make the electoral process less cumbersome, the manner in which the
government approached the case of the new districts and their capital towns is
not.
Otherwise, will there be any need
for security personnel to be mobilized to guard against any physical acts of
the aggrieved people in protest? Or, would the government have created
unnecessary enmity for itself with this issue?