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I would have allowed people to vote without verification – Afari-Gyan

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  • judges 10 years ago

    Great. That is what it should be.

  • judges 10 years ago

    NPP, give us a break. What you wrote merits no substance. Why not? Verification is verification and voting is a constitutional mandate.

  • TerriblY Spe cifiC 10 years ago

    HE SAYS IT BUT THE REGULATION IS THERE. IDIOTS. GO AND LEARN TO WIN VOTES AND STOP THE WAYWARD PROPAGANDA WGHICH WILL NEVER HELP.

  • Ataa 10 years ago

    So you strongly believe that NDC won the election? Wow!

  • REALITY 10 years ago

    Where is the water tight evidence NPP claimed they had? until now they have been struggling to make a case when they told the whole world that it will be shocking to people when the case opens, do you see that? even after man ...
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  • OLD SOLDIER 10 years ago

    Author: OBAA YAA

    ...So, the people around the president including his wife and those Team “B” staffers were aware of the president failing health. Therefore, who were they kidding when they ruin insults on whoever ques ...
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  • GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 10 years ago

    HIS ANSWERS ALONE TELLS YOU THAT HE HAS THROWN IN THE TOWEL. HE KEEPS GIVING USELESS, INCOHERENT ANWERS, TME AFTER TIME. DOES HE EVEN REALISE HOW MUCH OF A FOOL HE IS MAKING HIMSELF?

  • IDRIS PACAS 10 years ago

    The main aim of the biometric verification is to ensure that a registered voter actually voted once. It's not to prevent registered voters from voting. Thus, turning away a registered voter because of machine-failure would ha ...
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  • lizzy adabraka 10 years ago

    Ataa, you are a big fool in the family. if i was you sister, i would have cry everyday cos my brother is a big FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL.

  • Efo Kossi Korve 10 years ago

    Why should the NPP CommunicationnTeam do such great disservice to its fellow members of the NPP? They know what they are spewing ought are packs of lies which will crumble in the end. The judges are not on the least influence ...
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  • John Kpeglo 10 years ago

    People without fingers and those with difficulty in finger print identification were classified as FOs! How did they vote? The machine is not known to the Constitution. So far as they can prove that the person is the one in t ...
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  • TerriblY Spe cifiC 10 years ago

    you can declare your own results.

  • DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 10 years ago

    Source: NPP Communications Directorate.

  • OLIVER TWIST "Ghana's Rotweiller" 10 years ago

    NPP will always try to TWIST FACTS!

    NPP CRIMINALS, MURDERERS, THIEVES, NATION WRECKERS!

    WE THE CADRES OF JUNE 4TH ARE ALERT! ALL DIE BE DIE!!!!

  • Blessings 10 years ago

    In these court proceedings, I have NOT read any Constitutional implications of denying a citizen's right to vote, if the person was validly identified but could not be verified by a biometric machine..

    Why isn't the Respo ...
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  • NYG 10 years ago

    These issues have been left purposefully legal arguments. At this stage of the trial they are with hard core evidence to ascertain whether at all there were irregularities, malpractices and statutory and constitutional violat ...
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  • kafui 10 years ago

    verification is verification... so sad.. free laptop people.. talk blablablah

  • The thruth 10 years ago

    As I queued to to cast my vote - one that I regret - I saw so many under age children voting. I know some of you will call for evidence but if only we will be truthful to ourselves me know that is a fact. Doesn't this comprom ...
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  • obibini 10 years ago

    PLease if that is the case why the verification machines? we dont vote by knowing the person,because everybody knows somebody, and we dont vote because the officer knows you to be NANA.NANA has to register to vote and it shou ...
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  • John Kpeglo 10 years ago

    You mean he should not vote? What of the FOs? You sound odd oh!

  • Kojo T 10 years ago

    Biometric erification is for IDENTIFICATIOn so if every one knows you, you have been identified. What was happening before the biometric machines?

  • kojo 10 years ago

    But the law does not permit the Nana to vote without him being biometric verified.

  • TerriblY Spe cifiC 10 years ago

    the townsfolk can verify.

  • SGT ANANI FIADZOE 10 years ago

    With defeat staring Nana straight in the face, Nana collapsed in frustration and was flown to London for medical attention.

    We wish him speedy recovery. But he should put a stop to wee smoking immediately.

  • OLIVER TWIST 10 years ago

    EBOOOOO!! ASEM BEBA DEBI!!!

    THE WEE SMOKER IN COMA? HMMMMMMMM

  • Integrety 10 years ago

    OH POOR AFARI GYAN,NOW FACE THE MUSIC

  • judges 10 years ago

    when you have turned our elections into song and dance, why wont he dance? music indeed. thank God akuffo-addo is the lead vocalist!

  • REALITY 10 years ago

    But it's HIP HOP being played and he is dancing HIGHLIFE. It could be that he's surprise seeing Mahama twanging the lead guitar.

  • BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 10 years ago

    The concern citizens of Ghanaians abroad such as America, Canada, London, Germany, Italy, Australia and Holland, is appealing to the highest court of our country to throw the petitioners foolish and diabolical case that is ha ...
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  • Big Alex Aluta.Hamburg. 10 years ago

    What BBC NEWS.It would been better you put up your own name.This is one of these NDC propaganda machines who publish this foolish comment that I would have allowed people to vote without verification.Who are the so called con ...
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  • JATO 10 years ago

    Big Alex read and read well the article. Afari Gyan never said he will allow anyone to vote without verification. You are rather the ones who must stop deceiving yourselves and others.
    The man said he will allow Nana to vote ...
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  • Truthful Kofi 10 years ago

    Thanx 4 the explanation...

  • Dr. Omane Boamah 10 years ago

    So what if i'm not a Nana but just an 'average Joe' but 2 of the polling agents, the EC official and a host of town folks know me? Do you see the danger of what you're proposing?

  • Nana Yaw, Boston, USA 10 years ago

    Liar! I'm in USA but have not said anything about throwing any court case away. Dzimakpla!!!

  • Big Alex Aluta.Hamburg. 10 years ago

    Its a big shame on Afari Gyan after collecting the tax payers money to purchase the biometric machines and now telling Ghanaians stupid thinks.May God forgive him.

  • SURPRISE 10 years ago

    After the successful elections we've had over the years including election 2012 with the leadership of this same man Afari Gyan who's help also brought NPP to power, you have the nerves to insult him.May God forgive you also ...
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  • Bonsu 10 years ago

    IF AFARI GYAN DID NOT BELIEVE IN THE VERIFICATION SYSTEM WHAT STOPPED HIM FROM RESIGNING FROM THE EC.
    FAILING TO RESIGN AND DISGUISING HIMSELF TO MESS UP THE 2012 ELECTION WHICH INVOLED THE TAX PAYER'S SEVERAL MILLIONS GHA C ...
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  • Sam Otu 10 years ago

    Our respectable EC boss is really confused, its because he is trying to lie to cover up the rigging. God will punish him severely if he doesn't say the truth.

  • Atinga Kobla Atongo 10 years ago

    This man is a disgrace, a cheat and a fool. This man haven't seen anything yet.He will end up in prison soon.

  • odinehu dadaboat 10 years ago

    dr gyan, just accept that there were some fruad and irregularities, then we move on.now the ndc lawyers are coiling back to thier shells because they know that they are fighting a loose battle. mark my words there is a run of ...
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  • DORMAA ADUANASTARS KDS 10 years ago

    NPP has lost this court case in advance so just find something doing.

  • efo Dagadou 10 years ago

    And Ghanians shall see the truth,and the truth shall set them free...Thank u Afari for contradicting yourself...

  • James Armstrong 10 years ago

    NPP has allowed these certificate less people to finish the party you can see that your case has come to a dead end you will have to apologies to the people of Ghana for wasting the tax payers money. If you are not looting ...
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  • Pipiango 10 years ago

    The NPPs case borders on pettiness. If the scenario Afari Gyan gave regarding the chief of a town not being able to be verified by the machine but his picture and details have popped up on the machine as someone who is regist ...
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  • President NanaAddoDAA 10 years ago

    Even though it is clearly evident that we all make mistakes,by the mitakes Bawumia made in court,refusing to answer simple questions.....and telling us even though he made mistakes he did not use the duplications in his analy ...
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  • Paul Amuna 10 years ago

    I call it 'catching at straws' and if these are the little things the petitioners hope to win this case with, they are grossly mistaken. I have stated without equivocation that I cannot see how they can win this case on the b ...
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  • jojo 10 years ago

    Yes the NPP end game is simple what they could not win in a General election they want to achieve through a Judicial coup de tat,this will never happen due to the integrity of our Lordships

  • K.K. 10 years ago

    AFARI GYAN HAS LOST ANY CREDIBILITY LEFT FOR HIM AFTER SAYING HE WAS NOT CLEAR WHAT OVER VOTING IS. HE IS A TOATL WASTE OF SPACE AND TAX PAYERS RESOURCES AND SHOULD BE JAILED FOR CAUSING FINANCIAL LOSS TO THE COUNTRY. HOW MUC ...
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  • LOVELLY 10 years ago

    WHAT A SHAME SO CALL AFARI GYAN .U ARE A TOTALL DISGRACE TO THE NATION.

  • 7B 10 years ago

    most idiot man for recycling

  • Joe ballack UK 10 years ago

    God shall eliminate Afari Gyan and ndc

  • Paul Amuna 10 years ago

    It's amazing how people try to catch at straws. Counsel's question was hypothetical and the witness' answer was set in context.

    What he did not add was that this would be an exception rather than the rule, and that he was ...
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  • Counsellor 10 years ago

    That is a good piece!

  • Akpaklika Mewua Lo Ode 10 years ago

    Am I reading from my Senior Paul Amuna? no doubt he still has his intelect intact.

    Do these petitioners think that by

    i) Selectively isolating so-called irregularities in so-called strong holds of the NDC without menti ...
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  • Paul Amuna 10 years ago

    Thanks Akpaks! The name hasn't changed!

  • Counsellor 10 years ago

    What Afari Djan said was an exception rather than the rule. NPP, why will Dr. Afari Djan contradict himself when he had already indicated that he had faith in the biometric verification system.

    NPP do you believe in the Bi ...
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  • Paul Amuna 10 years ago

    Precisely the point. Why is this so difficult for some people to grasp?

  • Whatever 10 years ago

    Afari Gyan makes a lot of intelligent commonsense any time he speaks. When someone is a wellknown figure, and there are glitches with verifying device, he would allowed him to vote. That is so intelligent and it shows Afari G ...
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  • Kwame F 10 years ago

    Hmmmmmmmmmmm Afari Gyan.

  • Ataa 10 years ago

    What kind of bias is that? If the person is "unknown" he can be sent home (as some were) and not allowed to vote because they are unknown? Where do you draw the line? This person is known or unknown? So long as we all live in ...
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  • KT 10 years ago

    All he was trying to say was that if the person has valid voter ID and his information shows up on the screen of the device after you scanned it but the device cannot take his finger print, you should not take his right of v ...
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  • John Kpeglo 10 years ago

    But this way of reasoning is NOT common to many on this platform!

  • kojo 10 years ago

    I think you are missing the point. The information of a voter can only be shown up on the screen of the device only when the voter's finger print is verified. With the exception of the FO's you can not have any other voter's ...
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  • Barima Yaw 10 years ago

    true

  • Kofi Adjaho Mahama 10 years ago

    Afari Djan why are you resorting to lies and contradictions to protect yourselves. You have so far proved to be a nation wrecker who will stop at nothing to satisfy his paymasters and also to satisfy his insatiable lust for m ...
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  • raw 10 years ago

    enough evidence . verdict must be pronunced. victory for NPP

  • Counsellor 10 years ago

    NPP has nothing but circumstantial evidence which will not stand in court and so they are losers and they know that!

  • K Boateng 10 years ago

    Breaking News !!

    Typical of Npp, they put out an official statement saying Akuffo Addo has been flown for a check up in the UK but its not true. Akuffo Addo is right there in Ghana @ the Cardio Center undergoing serious tr ...
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  • The Stallion 10 years ago

    How can you come out with a statement like this without proof? I wonder what is wrong with the Ghanaian.

  • STAPH-PHILADELPHIA 10 years ago

    A simple logic and analogy addressing an hypothetical question but the NPP communication has peeled off the truth and trying to make it sound like Afari Gyan is condoning voting without BVM: the reason I asked the this questi ...
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  • TRUTH 10 years ago

    Your people said this now they need to pay for cheating and steeling! The EC said if they were not registered no vote without the machine. You must be held to the truth

  • STAPH-PHILADELPHIA 10 years ago

    If you are not registered, you have no business voting and no matter whom you are or how known you are you cannot vote by law.
    What the petitioners are saying is that, even if you registered and your name is in the voter re ...
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  • KT 10 years ago

    Not Just Otumfuo but anyone else who registered to vote including NPP's, their supporters and those lawyers and the Judges too. We need to realize that so called finger print device cannot take someone's voting right from him ...
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  • kafui 10 years ago

    SIMPLE QUESTION

  • TRUTH 10 years ago

    stupid boy!!

  • Donboli 10 years ago

    Gyan has mental problem, NPP and co are in the Supreme Court because there were some rigging and fiddling. Gyan is saying the same thing but when it come to John Mahama he wants him to stay as President.
    Gyan is not denying ...
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  • STONER KOBYLYNTON 10 years ago

    So Afari Djan is saying it is only the Paramount Chief and people of some class and not a citizen of Ghana and from that polling area who he would allowed to vote if his name is in the voters’ register but can’t be verifi ...
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  • YAW ASANTE 10 years ago

    HEI! NPP YOU HAVE LOST SO ACCEPT THE DEFEAT.

  • Daabodaaabo. 10 years ago

    IN RESPECT OF FACE THE WALL

  • david king birikorang 10 years ago

    allow who to vote without verfication

  • THE TRUTH HURTS 10 years ago

    And he was not a presiding officer, so what is your beef, NPP? You have no case so eat the humble pie and apologise to President Mahama, the NDC, your followers and the entire country.

  • KWAA 10 years ago

    “For example, I was a presiding officer during the elections and a paramount chief came, and everyone knows Nana, and his name is in the voters’ register but can’t be verified, I would allow him to vote because he is kn ...
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  • Court Witness 10 years ago

    I would be ashamed to call myself as educated if there are men like Dr Afari Gyan who can claim to be educated; we, the educated Ghanaians, cannot accept Afari Gyan as one of us. He is a disgrace to us all, and a disgrace to ...
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  • Kofi - USA 10 years ago

    VERY INTERSTING ANSWER INDEED. THIS IS VERY DIFFERENT FROM HIS STANCE THAT EVERBODY WHO VOTED WAS VERIFIED. THAT IS WHY THERE IS ALWAYS A CROSS EXAMINATION. FROM HERE ON WE SHALL FIND WHERE THE TRUTH LIES. SO KEEP LISTENING B ...
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  • D/Sgt. Nuamah 10 years ago

    There seems to be something wrong with the way and manner this report has been presented to the reading public.
    The reporter failed to see or appreciate the reasoning behind the introduction of the BVM.
    Simply, it is to hel ...
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  • JJ's Admirer in South London!!! 10 years ago

    If that was how voting was conducted, then our constitution was aggressively violetaed. To Afari Gyan, the whole electoral process was infantilelly conducted and must be annlled by our Lordships in the name of justice.Former ...
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  • Amissah Arthur is Gay 10 years ago

    Afari Gyan will die a rotten Man

  • The thruth 10 years ago

    May God forgive you

  • John Kpeglo 10 years ago

    I have no problem with that at all! The machine only confirms the verification process and should not disenfranchise any citizen who is qualified to VOTE as the constitution stipulates!

  • Nana Yaw, Boston, USA 10 years ago

    Clearly, the EC Commissioner does not know that form 1C is the voter ID card. today, he was saved by the bench. We shall see tomorrow.

  • $$$$ 10 years ago

    From the NPP and nobody else! We all heard what the EC Chairman said,and so try as they want to,these sore losers cannot change Dr. Afari Gyasn`s lucid testimony.

  • Mohammed Ibrahim 10 years ago

    DR.Kwadwo Afari-Gyan is a very honest Person.I met a Man from Uganda on a Bus in London,England ,and he told me he is from Uganda ,and he visited Ghana,and he met Dr.Kwadwo Afari-Gyan,and he found him to be a very Honest Pers ...
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  • Ken Ntiamoa 10 years ago

    Somebody from Uganda visits Ghana and meets another person and finds him to be honest. Did the Ugandan tell upon which he drew his conclusion?
    Ken

  • Omanba 10 years ago

    Ladies and gentle men,I am no more interesting to listen the foolish words from ,so stupid afari gyan ,supreme court should watch it if they're looking for WAR in Ghana.

  • Koka 10 years ago

    The writer is the most stupid writer I have come across. It is only an idiot of your likes who can conclude that the the chairman of EC contradicted himself. If he gives a hypothetical situation to buttress a point , how d ...
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  • Justman 10 years ago

    JUST CANNOT EVEN UNDERSTAND A SIMPLE SENTECE MADE BY AFARI GYAN.THEY TEND TO PUT WORDS INTO HIS MOUTH.DOES THE STATEMENT MEANT HE HAS ALLOWED PEOPLE TO VOTE WITHOU BIOMETRIC VERIFICATION?HE MEANS YOU BETTER GO BACK TO THOSE D ...
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  • lizzy adabraka 10 years ago

    look at this man from EC and ask your self if he is really serious abt what saying in court. What are u talking abt stop this okay.

  • Aberewa ba 10 years ago

    This is the kind of Presiding Officer we had in 2012 elections. But for the intervention of "All Die be Die" this nation of ours have been in jeopardy. Nana Akufo Addo thank you for the wise intervention of All Die be Die w ...
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  • Frederick Kofi Tawiah 10 years ago

    Dr. afari gyane indeed shows that he realy rig the election to Mahamah.God that we serve shall reign for ever. He wiil surely come down to judge this case.

  • NANA HAKIM 10 years ago

    Hello Mr. & Mrs. Ghana,

    Obviously, the Intelligence Division of NPP failed during and after the elections. The division did a shoddy job. The division woefully failed to study the nitty-gritty and or most nuances and some ...
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  • NANA HAKIM 10 years ago

    It's INTELLIGENCE FAILURE not Intelligent Failure.

  • ALFONSO 10 years ago

    THIS SICK IS NOT THE LAW OF THIS COUNTRY

  • Asempa Beba Dabi 10 years ago

    So if the Omanhene would be allowed to vote without verification and Afari Gyan admits that his data will not be captured by the BV machine, then the printout the EC sought to tender cannot be relied on. The data will obvious ...
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  • Daabodaaabo. 10 years ago

    EVERY CRIMINAL IN DEVELOPED COUNTRY SCARERD OF DATABASE. THAT DETECTS FINGER PRINTS, PHONE NUMBS, EMIAL ADDRESSES, ETC. GHANA WOULDN'T MOVE A CUE AFTER NATIONAL IDENTIFICATION REGESTRATION, IF THERE IS ANAY DATABSE ALL INFORM ...
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  • tames 10 years ago

    this EC idiot is just a dishonest coward. he makes me throw up by claiming to possess a PhD without the ability to apply common sense!!!!!!! he's a bloody liar and a cheat!!!!!!!

  • Daabodaaabo. 10 years ago

    WHERE IS THE DIRECTION TO ALL THIS TALK. THIS FAKE IS WHAT EVERYONE IS THINKING IS A THE LAW , WHO CAN STATIONARY THE COUNTRY FOR MINUTES ? OH GHANA!!!!!!!!

  • kofi ofori amoako 10 years ago

    Why make laws and have rules if certain categories of citizens can be exempted from the application of the laws just because they are "known"?
    No one is above the law and to have the chief election officer make this sort of ...
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  • Oteng-U.S.A. 10 years ago

    This guy is seriously laughable.
    Assuming Afari Gyan is an airport security person and a prominent personality like former president Kufour comes through immigration check point, he is telling the whole nation-Ghana that he ...
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  • kofi Daniel 10 years ago

    the BVM was only to check 130 percent voting in the Ashanti region, leave the old man alone, he has lots of experience to do the job

  • Nana Kwasi Agyeman. U S A 10 years ago

    i cant wait to see the end of npp folishness.

  • AKONFEM MAHAMA 10 years ago

    OH USELESS,HE SHOULD BOW DOWN HIS IDIOE HEAD

  • con 10 years ago

    SUPRIME COURT TO ARREST AFARI GYAN NOW, BCOS WHAT HE SAID WOULD NOT ALLOW ME TO VOTE. I NEVER VOTE BCOS OF WHAT HE SAID,EH AFERI GYAN. N.V....... NV

  • NII LARTEY NARTEY 10 years ago

    When the untouchable "almighty" Afari Djan was finally docked before the Supreme Court, he was dazed totally confused and acted like an idiot rain beaten vulture.

    To allow some people to vote without verification as agains ...
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  • CONCERNED GHANAIANS 10 years ago

    Strange as it would seem that the voters register may omit the name of a prominent person like the Chief of a town, an exception may be made for him to vote; but the BVM becomes useless if the exception becomes a rule.