The Accra Mail writes that on the issue of national reconciliation, the government and the opposition differ completely with each other on certain specific items that the proposed reconciliation commission would deliberation on.
While the NPP government has embraced recommendations put forward by the Center for Democratic Development (CDD- Ghana) in collaboration with a coalition of civil society or civil society organisations, the NDC has raised objections to the recommendations and has therefore called for a review of the survey report, which forms the basis for the recommendations. At the launch of a document on public opinion on national reconciliation in Ghana at the just ended International Conference on National Reconciliation, the NDC led by Dr Kwabena Adjei, former Majority Leader raised several objections about some of the results of the survey.
Speaking to The Accra Mail, Dr. Kwabena said the sample selected for the survey is, "not a fair representation of divergent views of Ghanaians because it seems to be heavily biased in favour of the youth, urban dwellers, literate persons and even in terms of sex."
He said the NDC has problems also with the items and the contents of the questionnaire, in that certain items have been deliberately included in order to be confirmed by the respondents. He noted that there is no indication in the report that suggests that the interviewers found their targeted respondents, adding, "in the absence of any reference to post survey checks, then I have grounds to doubt the reality of the data".
