Now that the 2012 elections are over, it is time, I believe, for the whole nation to examine article 47 of the 1992 Constitution in a non-partisan way, to enable us to ask the question as to whether Ghana can afford to increase the number of MPs every seven years, or every time there is a population census in the country that changes the constitution of the existing population variables in relation to the �population quota�, as defined by this article (47).