Folks, I continue to wonder why common sense continues to elude these narrow-minded, short-sighted, and grossly incompetent NPP functionaries, especially those in Team Akufo-Addo, who refuse to think deeply before talking.
Just consider this:
“Presidential Advisor on Health, Dr Anthony Nsiah-Asare is optimistic that the Electoral Commission (EC) can compile a new voters’ register while observing measures to control the spread of COVID-19.
“Dr. Nsiah-Asare who was speaking on UTV’s ‘Critical Issues’ last Saturday, said since people have been queuing at the banks to transact businesses and engaging in other activities, we can register while practising social distancing.”
I will take him to the cleaners, no holds barred.
i. How many people visit the banks to transact business on each day?
ii. Are they restricted in any other way apart from producing identification and bank documents to confirm their identity?
iii. Are the credentials easy to establish once a customer is duly registered and recognized as legitimate enough to do business with?
iv. Are the identification materials difficult to acquire?
Now, let’s flip the coin to see what is problematic about how the government, the Electoral Commission, and the National identification Authority have complicated procedures to hamper the electoral process.
i. By virtue of the NIA’s lopsided work, millions of Ghanaians don’t have the Ghana Card that the EC is requiring as proof of Ghanaian citizenship worthy for registration.
ii. By virtue of its own miscalculations, the EC has included the Ghana passport as a requirement for eligibility to be registered. How many Ghanaians hold the passport?
iii. By virtue of political mischief and complicity in fraud with Team Akufo-Addo/NPP, the EC has dismissed the birth certificate and voter identity cards even though the birth certificate is the primary authentic evidence of Ghanaian citizenship, based on which one can acquire the passport and Ghana Card.
The complications are thick. Will the EC wait for the NIA to complete issuing the Ghana Card to all eligible Ghanaians before attempting to begin the registration exercise toward compiling a new voters register?
Or will the EC precede the NIA in registering those now with the passport and Ghana Card, waiting for the NIA to complete its tasks, and then bounce back to register those not earlier registered?
Given all these complications, I still find it difficult why the intransigence on the part of the Jean Mensa-led EC and why the absurdities coming from Team Akufo-Addo, the NPP, and so-called civil society organizations (such as the useless Ghana Peace Council).
Let’s remember that TIME IS NOT CAUGHT ON A HOOK, waiting for these morons to sort themselves and things out before moving on. Time is not on the EC’s side at all, given the heavy workload on its table.
It’s not just a matter of registering people to compile a new voters register. It has a lot more involved, even including exhibition of the register and readying it for Election Day. Other tasks involve preparing electoral materials, voter education/conscientization, and many more. Between now and December 7 is too short. Why fool around, then?
Folks, danger looms!! Countries plagued with electoral violence and horrendous catastrophes began this way.
