Contemporary Constitutional Issues in our Multiparty Democracy Attorney-General when they leave office temporarily for another group of terrorists to pillage the state. For many years, I worked with the Legal Resources Centre on a Parliamentary Advocacy Project which involved the collation of views on legislation before parliament on a wide range of issue and sometimes all over the country. I learnt a lot during those years. We do not have the time to recount some of those experiences. The short assessment of those years spent in the field is that the issues that we clamour over and fight over and insult each other over in the elite media are so far removed from the concerns of the ordinary Ghanaian. The gap, the divide, is so gapping and menacing that I often cringe at the thought. As we visited the Regions in Ghana during the consultations on the National Reconciliation Bill in the early part of this century, I was educated by the simple folk that they did not care a shear nut fruit about the murder of three judges or some other misadventures of clowns in the cities. They cared more about the number of children dying in the hundreds because their only medical practitioner had to perform medical operations with a lantern. I set this statement against the huge campaign that was mounted in the early 1990s on how nonsensical it was to extend hydro-electricity to Northern Ghana and shuddered. The third part of my three point delivery is to address constitutional issues that should take centre stage in any amendment of the 1992 Constitution, but which are hardly mentioned or not mentioned at all. There are serious gender gaps in the 1992 Constitution which have not yet been addressed substantively. To take one clear example, although the Constitution clearly and unequivocally commands Parliament, to as soon as practicable after the coming into force of the Constitution, pass legislation on property rights of spouses, no such legislation has been passed more than 16 years after the coming into force of the Constitution. Another example is the limited participation of Queenmothers and Women Chiefs in the formal and informal chieftaincy structures, although the constitution in its article 277 defines “ chief ” to include Queenmothers. 6 We also seem to forget that article 298 of the 1992 Constitution provides that: 6 Betty Mould-Iddrisu, Ghana's 1992 Constitution-The Gender Gaps, IEA Governance Newsletter,(December, 2003). 13