“Great English to resist challenges that look in the face”. said
He has attacked the NIA over the challenge of registering Ghanaians amid the Electoral Commission’s proposal to make the Ghana card the sole identification document for registering to vote.
I saw a very official statement of the response of the shirt to my loud with Prof. Attafuah in Newsfile two weeks ago. I never thought that I was big or important to get that kind of attention from all the institutions that are supposed to be busy focusing on registering people who have been lacking in registration, which ended up in long queues, paying money, and close to stampedes at the NIA headquarters. .
NIA, your response is covered in half truths and this is what we call propaganda. You can laugh at yourself and laugh only in an effort to protect your job. But some of us will not allow you to throw Ghana into chaos and flee the country on Diplomatic or Service Passports.
Please join the opposition party leaders again and stop living in the past. Comments from Jerry Rawlings and co were given in the past and no one has qualms with the relevance of the Ghana Card. Indeed, before Prof. Ken Attafuah got his appointment, some of us had argued that all ID cards should be synchronized into one card. So, it is not a big deal if other famous statesmen and women appreciate the move of having a Ghana card.
But the point of contention is the disagreement over the use of the Ghana Card as the sole source document for voter registration and the fact that the NIA has challenges that top officials cannot deal with in private. We need a Ghanaian card but let’s hurry.
There is no point in this inordinate haste that creates unnecessary suspicion that tends to lead to implosion, because the use of the Ghana card alone, as a source document for voter registration, can greatly affect the electoral fortunes of political parties.
Instead of quoting what dead founders of political parties have said in support of the Ghana Card, let the NIA listen to the voices of the living about the dangers of intransigence and refusing to build a consensus on the use of the Card as the sole document for voter registration. Let NIA and Prof. Attafuah not use eloquence and big English to dismiss the challenge that is staring us in the face.
Prof. Attafuah was in parliament and he saw the reaction of the minority group. Using one side of Dominic Ayine’s argument on the radio to support the counter view that, the NIA does not have a confidence deficit, is quite disingenuous. Professors should analyze things from a holistic point of view. There are two sides to every coin and when we seek to build Ghana, our efforts must be aimed at protecting the national interest and not to tout achievements that are supposed to be highly contentious.