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• Kwabena Appiah 12 years ago

  I am not sure what this write up was intened to communicate. Dr. Kwadwo Afari-Gyan will have been fired in some countries if all these problems surfaced under his watch. the time for redemption has passed. He could have st ...
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  I am not sure what this write up was intened to communicate. Dr. Kwadwo Afari-Gyan will have been fired in some countries if all these problems surfaced under his watch. the time for redemption has passed. He could have stood his ground all the way but he choose a path that would lead him to destruction. He will go down as a disgraced man and history will definitely not be kind to him.

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• GHANAVIA 12 years ago

  Tseaa, how can a centurion-looking Afari Gyan be only 68.
  
  We all know Ghanaians hardly disclose their true age; Afari gyan is no exception.

  Tseaa, how can a centurion-looking Afari Gyan be only 68.
  
  We all know Ghanaians hardly disclose their true age; Afari gyan is no exception.

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• STONER KOBYLYNTON 12 years ago

  Hei Ghanavia, you are right about your comment but some people may look much older than their actual age and vice versa. It all rest on your lifestyle. You remind me in the mid '70's to mid 80's where I used to work with one ...
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  Hei Ghanavia, you are right about your comment but some people may look much older than their actual age and vice versa. It all rest on your lifestyle. You remind me in the mid '70's to mid 80's where I used to work with one of the Foreign Banks in Ghana and the Executive Director who used to be a Ghanaian was changing his birthdate when he was due for retirement. Eventually age caught up with him where he couldn't have any option but retire miserably. This mostly happen to people who don't plan well towards their retiring age.

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• Opanin 12 years ago

  One major weakness of the 1992 Constitution is that it never prescribed a fixed term for the Electoral Commissioner. This is one of the reasons why Afari Gyan became so obstinate and arrogant. He's been around for more than t ...
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  One major weakness of the 1992 Constitution is that it never prescribed a fixed term for the Electoral Commissioner. This is one of the reasons why Afari Gyan became so obstinate and arrogant. He's been around for more than twenty years and so had developed some importance and arrogance commonly identified with dictators, emperors and monarchs. Recall his reaction and response to the advice of well-meaning Ghanaians that the country was not in a position to add more parliamentarians to the 230 we had before the 2012 elections. He brushed off as nonsensical all those pieces of advice. When the NPP suggested that he investigates alleged irregularities in the 2012 elections before announcing the winner, he rebuffed that they could go to court. When they took his challenge and went to court, he has started telling lies and professing to be ignorant of what happened under his watch during the elctions.
  
  There is much to be done to restore respect and dignity to the Electoral Commission.
  
  Firstly a constitutional amendment must make a one term of seven years for the Commissioner.
  
  Secondly, a judge or a reputable and legally trained person should be considered for the position of Electoral Commissioner. If nothing at all, a judge will exhibit the fairness and firmness he/she is known for. And judges, like all other professionals, are also bound by code of ethics which make their conduct beyond reproach. Judging from what we have seen in the past 20 years or so, Afari Gyan was a bad choice, except that Jerry Rawlings wanted someone who perhaps would be very much sympathetic to the NDC party.
  
  Our constitution unfortunately gives so much power to the president and therein lies the danger that the President's choice of the next Electoral Commission may be influenced by political consideration. If that happens, we'll be back to square one.

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• Wiafe 12 years ago

  I admire Afari Gyan. He has done well given the nature of the climate.
  
  How can we really conduct transparent elections in our villages where there is high illiteracy?
  
  Afari Gyan should be given an honor. He has done ...
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  I admire Afari Gyan. He has done well given the nature of the climate.
  
  How can we really conduct transparent elections in our villages where there is high illiteracy?
  
  Afari Gyan should be given an honor. He has done better for Ghana than Mugo Yaro (Aka All Die Be Die).
  
  The petitioners have not prove any wrongdoing by Afari Gyan.

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• HELL FIRE 12 years ago

  IF IT FAVOURS YOU IT IS GREEN, IF NOT IT IS RED MRU WIAFE. NO MATTER WHAT, AFARI GYAN WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY A DISGRACED MAN. HE HAS SOLD THE HONOUR HE DESERVES FOR DOLLARS AND DOES NOT DESERVE ANY HONOUR. THIS CASE IS A PRO ...
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  IF IT FAVOURS YOU IT IS GREEN, IF NOT IT IS RED MRU WIAFE. NO MATTER WHAT, AFARI GYAN WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY A DISGRACED MAN. HE HAS SOLD THE HONOUR HE DESERVES FOR DOLLARS AND DOES NOT DESERVE ANY HONOUR. THIS CASE IS A PROOF THAT HE SOLD ALL THE ELECTIONS HE SUPERVISED ONLY PARTIES INVOLVED DID NOT TAKE COURT ACTION THAT TIME. SAME SREVEALATIONS FRAUDS WOULD HAVE COME OUT. HE IS LIKE A LIZARD, HE SHITS BLACK AND IN THE END HE SHITS WHITE.

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• hermit 12 years ago

  The democracy we are practicing is not hinged on the one individual so your comparison with just one individual to conclude he has done well is myopic. maybe with some broad vision you will learn something.

  The democracy we are practicing is not hinged on the one individual so your comparison with just one individual to conclude he has done well is myopic. maybe with some broad vision you will learn something.

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• Kwaku Noko 12 years ago

  If all Ghanaians are asked to retire from civil service at age 60, this Afari-Gyan guy should be no exception.

  If all Ghanaians are asked to retire from civil service at age 60, this Afari-Gyan guy should be no exception.

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• DEE 12 years ago

  I believe Afari GYAN IS CURRENTLY WORKING ON CONTRACT BASES.

  I believe Afari GYAN IS CURRENTLY WORKING ON CONTRACT BASES.

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• mensah abrampa 12 years ago

  It's the people of Ghana whose great love for country and for peace, stability,and democracy who deserve the credit for 5 back to back peaceful elections . Thanks also to our naivety, gullibility and docility that kept us nod ...
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  It's the people of Ghana whose great love for country and for peace, stability,and democracy who deserve the credit for 5 back to back peaceful elections . Thanks also to our naivety, gullibility and docility that kept us nodding like lizards. We caught the eyes of the world. Unfortunately successful elections spanning a period of 20 years have been wrongly credited to Dr. Afari Gyan.We won't allow Afari Gyan to steal again what rightly belongs to us.

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• jake 12 years ago

  am available for the job if approached.
  I will switch all NPP votes to KKK and all pink sheets given to Ashtown residents as toilet rolls.
  Judging by their refusal to accept defeat and their patapa, I will refuse to turn up ...
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  am available for the job if approached.
  I will switch all NPP votes to KKK and all pink sheets given to Ashtown residents as toilet rolls.
  Judging by their refusal to accept defeat and their patapa, I will refuse to turn up in court. Addison would have lost his law cert. and de-barred and NPP doomed forever. to rebrand they would call themselves KAAP =Kwasefour Ashanti Ayem Party

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• jake 12 years ago

  Please don't

  Please don't

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• CONCERNED GHANAIANS 12 years ago

  Thanks for the nice article, the elaborations and clarifications.
  Based on reliable information from insiders who wish to remain anonymous, we have always suspected, election upon election, that preplanned election frauds ha ...
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  Thanks for the nice article, the elaborations and clarifications.
  Based on reliable information from insiders who wish to remain anonymous, we have always suspected, election upon election, that preplanned election frauds have been going on at least since 1992, with the knowledge and possibly, connivance of Dr Afari-Gyan. The BVM only aided in exposing his otherwise unsuspecting insidious disrespect for Ghanaians and their right to genuinely choose their leader.
  We respect Dr Afari-Gyan as an elderly man.
  Ghanaians thank Dr. Afari-Gyan for heading the EC for the past 20 years and "overseeing" elections, but it would be disgraceful, humiliating and backward-thinking for Ghanaians to thank him for the fraudulent elections; knowing or having reasons to believe that he has over the years overlooked, acquiesced to or participated in the intermittent election fraud; a serious perversion of justice against Ghanains.
  We challenge anybody who doubts this to another level: Ghana should introduced lie-detecting machine (even if only for this purpose) and pose this question to Dr Afari-Gyan and we would be vindicated. We were sad to hear Dr Nkrumah say that election rigging in Ghana is like gonorrhea...we have to live by it. We refuse that. Ghanaians can cure it and improve upon it. Let us put put partisan politics aside, let us come out boldly and objectively to confront the so called gonorrhea so that it becomes history.
  If Ghana's judicial system can allow Afari-Gyan to enter a plea bargain - and if he is ready to do that for the sake of a better Ghana - he could expose many things that could help us improve the electoral system.

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