Maliens and Nigeriens who have been offered the hospitable shoulder by the nation and its citizenry to perch on momentarily have wormed their way into registering massively at Kasoa in the Central region when the state set in motion the National Identification Registration exercise.
Last week THE SUN had to challenge a number of them who had queued up at Kasoa with their identifiable dressing of veils and turbans wrapped across their faces in over-flowing traditional wears akin to people of those countries. One registration official whom THE SUN queried said he initially protested the eligibility of the apparently ‘un-Ghanaian’ group to register but a bunch of macho youths popped up from the neighbouring Opeikuma vicinity to intimidate him and rain insults in a scary scene and so had to give in to registering them.
It will be recalled that the state elected to begin the registration exercise from the Central region only a few weeks ago and minus any check and supervision whatsoever, these crop of people from neighbouring West African countries fleeing economic hardships, have taken advantage of it to register en mass, even though they can hardly speak one local dialect of the many languages in the country.
One political pundit THE SUN spoke to expressed fear that it was possible for these people to register as voters when the voters’ registration exercise begins yet again, in which case one political party or the other may want to exploit the whole bunch of them to determine which Party emerges victorious in the upcoming general elections.
