Excellent Piece, General,
Our problem in Ghana at the moment is that the EC and its “supporters” do not seem to realise the seriousness of the position in which they find themselves. With a population of 25m over 38% of ... read full comment
Excellent Piece, General,
Our problem in Ghana at the moment is that the EC and its “supporters” do not seem to realise the seriousness of the position in which they find themselves. With a population of 25m over 38% of which are younger than 14 years, it is inconceivable to have over 14m or 70% on the voters’ register. Even in the UK where registration is compulsory, it does not have that kind of mouth-watering percentage on the voters’ register.
The pathetic Afari-Djan himself admitted way back in 2008 that Ghana’s electoral register was over-bloated and not fit for purpose. Somehow, the NPP and the other political parties knowingly tied the noose around their necks and went into two avoidable successive election defeats!
There is a limit to which we can push people’s patience and tempt ‘mother fate.’ With the current knowledge that in addition to all the fraud that the EC with the connivance of the NDC have perpetrated on the people of Ghana, it is also clear that Togolese, Burkinabes and Ivorians have foisted an incompetent and corrupt government on the people of Ghana. And remembering the bogus judgement that Atuguba read in August 2013, we may not have the luxury of another “Election Petition” in 2017.
If the new chair of the EC has any sense of patriotism, and in fact any native common sense at all, she will remember the Supreme Court’s admonition and do something about the electoral register. Even under threats from Acheampong’s military dictatorship, the late Justice Abban stuck to his guns and did right by the people of Ghana, but I guess common sense and decency are now rare commodities in Oman Ghana. We all seem to be sleepwalking into a national disaster!
Prof Lungu 8 years ago
YOUR: "...The pathetic Afari-Djan himself admitted way back in 2008 that Ghana’s electoral register was over-bloated and not fit for purpose..."
WE SAY: Read our response to Bawumia and come back again, KKO.
Further, ... read full comment
YOUR: "...The pathetic Afari-Djan himself admitted way back in 2008 that Ghana’s electoral register was over-bloated and not fit for purpose..."
WE SAY: Read our response to Bawumia and come back again, KKO.
Further, looks like you have purposely over-dramatized even that "IF...THEN".
Where, tell us, did you "pathetic Afari-Djan himself" use "over-bloated"?
FOR YOUR BENEFIT:
FROM BAWUMIA's REPORT:
"Afari Gyan’s take on the 2008 register:
• “If our population is indeed 22 million, then perhaps 13 million people on our register would be
statistically unacceptable by world standards. If that is the case, then it may mean that there is something
wrong with our register.”
But sorry, we cannot give you the page number because Dr. Bawumia "himself" neglected to include page numbers in his report, as far as we can tell.
But, please produce the statement from Dr. Afari-Djan that sees him using those words!
So sorry!
The "new chair of the EC" does not only need to show patriotism.
The chair must also show responsibility to all, for resources, time, etc., then professionalism.
The way you say it, common sense is never always common!
Greetings!
KKO 8 years ago
Just do the simple arithmetic; or I forget that some of you guys are averse to factual figures!
Just do the simple arithmetic; or I forget that some of you guys are averse to factual figures!
Prof Lungu 8 years ago
Nice try, Baidoo-name-sake!
Yes, we've done a lot of "simple arithmetic...factual figures", and have shown that Bawumia has more gas than evidence.
Go and look at our report, compare, and come back again!
Your: ". ... read full comment
Nice try, Baidoo-name-sake!
Yes, we've done a lot of "simple arithmetic...factual figures", and have shown that Bawumia has more gas than evidence.
Go and look at our report, compare, and come back again!
Your: "...With a population of 25m over 38% of which are younger than 14 years, it is inconceivable to have over 14m or 70% on the voters’ register.
WE SAY: Exactly when was the population of Ghana 25 million?
And when a country fails to properly/fully count the population, does it prevent eligible people from registering to vote?
Or, are you now telling us the EC "itself" is also responsible for counting the population?
the pdo not seem to realise the seriousness of the position in which they find themselves. With a population of 25m over 38% of which are younger than 14 years, it is inconceivable to have over 14m or 70% on the voters’ register.
Nice try with your suppositions, conjectures, and smears!
KKO 8 years ago
Some snippets for you. Those are 2010 Census figures that are readily available on the internet!
It is said that it is polite to acknowledge the least good anyone extends to you, therefore, it behooves upon us in NPP UK Br ... read full comment
Some snippets for you. Those are 2010 Census figures that are readily available on the internet!
It is said that it is polite to acknowledge the least good anyone extends to you, therefore, it behooves upon us in NPP UK Branch, to hereby acknowledge a significant admission by Dr Afari-Djan, hoping that would gear him up to be 'benevolent' enough and to extend further acts of goodness to the nation.
On Saturday 10th January 2015, Dr Afari-Djan, the Electoral Commissioner of Ghana, surprised a delegation of regional executive members of the political parties from the Eastern and Central regions, to the EC offices, when he admitted during an open forum, that the Voters’ Register in its current form is not credible.( Richard Dombo Diedong 1t5th January 2015)
The then Chairman of the Electoral Commission, Dr Afari-Djan, as well as no other than the current President, John Mahama, have both raised substantial doubts about the validity of the register, thus questioning its credibility, on the basis of sheer size and numbers of registered voters relative to our national population. The then EC Chairman raised doubt when he said that 13 million voters on the register in 2008 was statistically unacceptable by “world standards”- an admission that there are rules of thumb that will give off a sense of the accuracy of a voters register relative to a nation’s population. (NPP, UK, August 30, 2015)
NDC Accuses EC Of Fraud
“………The constituency branch of the NDC has complained that a number of people who were challenged over their age, nationality or other matters in a polling station at Nkeseim, where Mr. D.D. Peprah was the Returning Officer, have had their voters IDs secretly issued to them by registration officials in contravention of laws regulating registration exercises. The party backed its claim with a voter ID card that was secretly issued to one Nsenkyire Brobbey Mavis who was challenged on the first day of the registration exercise on suspicion that she was not up to 18 years. Mavis’ name is fifth on the list of 57 people who were challenged at registration centre number GO 31102, located in Nkaseim…….” (August 30 2008).
SOURCE OF DOCUMENTS : THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION OF GHANA( EC. )/NDC
TYPE OF DOCUMENTS: REGISTERED VOTERS’REGISTER AS AT UPDATED IN 2006
CONSTITUENCY TOTAL NO. SOURCE DATE OF ISSUE
OF VOTERS
1. EJURA-SEKYE-DUMASE 42,191 EC. HQ. IPAC OF 04/03/08 4TH MARCH,2008
2. EJURA-SEKYEDUMASE 39,613 EC. ASHANTI REGION SEPTEMBER, 2006
4. EJURA-SEKYEDUMASE 84,182 EC. HQ. OBTAINED BY 25TH FEB. 2008
5. EJURA-SEKYEDUMASE 84,182 CD-ROM OBTAINED BY NDC FROM EC.HQ (Ghana Palaver, March 18 2008)
Prof Lungu 8 years ago
KKO,
It is clear to us you have not bothered to read our responses to Bawumia, and yet, want to prolong this conversation with "snippets" from politicians and solitary examples!
EJURA-SEKYEDUMASE is a long way and many ... read full comment
KKO,
It is clear to us you have not bothered to read our responses to Bawumia, and yet, want to prolong this conversation with "snippets" from politicians and solitary examples!
EJURA-SEKYEDUMASE is a long way and many years from the Togo/Ivory Coast border/2015, respectively.
Even so, why did Bawumia neglect to include this information in his report, if it was so. truly, egregious?
The last we learned, nearly 100% of all voting precincts had observers from political parties to challenge voters, including the under-age, during the last elections; as they probably did during the registrations. (Your own example).
Further, Bawumia himself documents that there was a 3% drop in the rolls in Takoradi? Is that evidence of a bloat? Why did Bawumia fail to also focus on that fact, his own discovery?
Again, tell us who has the gas after you present information from our response, vs Bawumia's.
Then come again!
KKO 8 years ago
That is the problem with you leftists hiding in America and other places. You simply run away from reality when it does not favour you.
My comment on General Odei’s article only made a passing reference to the criminal i ... read full comment
That is the problem with you leftists hiding in America and other places. You simply run away from reality when it does not favour you.
My comment on General Odei’s article only made a passing reference to the criminal inclusion of Togolese and other nationals in Ghana’s legitimate electoral register. The figures I presented were derived from the 2010 Census which was supervised by the incompetent Mills –Mahama government(s) that your lot love to bits! Those state officials from the border areas of Ghana that criminally connived with the EC to register other nationals with photocopied, stapled and scanned photos should not think that the rest of us in other parts of Ghana are stupid. We are not. It is in our collective interest, especially those of us who live in civilised democracies where things are done for the benefit of all, to ensure that we have a level playing field for Election 2016.
That was all I meant with that comment. It does not take too much to understand that!
PAAMUKA 8 years ago
IF SHE COMPILE A NEW REGISTER SHE WILL YOU AND YOUR PAY-MASTERS COMENDATION AND IF NOT THE COMENDATION OF YOUR ARC- ENEMY NDC SO YOU SEE, SHE GET NOTHING TO LOOSE.
IF SHE COMPILE A NEW REGISTER SHE WILL YOU AND YOUR PAY-MASTERS COMENDATION AND IF NOT THE COMENDATION OF YOUR ARC- ENEMY NDC SO YOU SEE, SHE GET NOTHING TO LOOSE.
PAAMUKA 8 years ago
IF SHE COMPILE A NEW REGISTER SHE WILL EARN YOU AND YOUR PAY-MASTERS COMENDATION AND IF NOT THE COMENDATION OF YOUR ARC- ENEMY NDC SO YOU SEE, SHE GET NOTHING TO LOOSE.
IF SHE COMPILE A NEW REGISTER SHE WILL EARN YOU AND YOUR PAY-MASTERS COMENDATION AND IF NOT THE COMENDATION OF YOUR ARC- ENEMY NDC SO YOU SEE, SHE GET NOTHING TO LOOSE.
Abeeku Mensah 8 years ago
You're missing not only the fallacies of a new voter register but the pending let down of Ghanaians when it is all said and done Brig-General Odei.
In your own military training and carrier you cannot and do not know of a ... read full comment
You're missing not only the fallacies of a new voter register but the pending let down of Ghanaians when it is all said and done Brig-General Odei.
In your own military training and carrier you cannot and do not know of a system that identifies a good guy from a bad guy do you? How then could you advocate for a system to help eliminate collateral damage in war or training exercise other than what weapons you had at the time. The voter registration squabble is nothing more than scoring cheap but temporary political points with the NPP. Tell me oh Brig-general Odei if the EC is the government agency charges with authenticating /certifying or offering Ghanaian citizenship? If the military, security agencies and governments, past and present, cannot implement a system that is full proof of ascertaining who is and who is not a Ghanaian why would you and any other body play up this notion of a full proof voter registry? At the end of the day it is that one ID that can establish our nationality, age and residence address that comes into play with voter registration and registry.
By the way if voter registry was a priority for the NPP (elections are won or lost) why did the NPP Kufour administration not implemented this fantasy system for voter registration and registry in the 8 years it took to make tribal hatred part of the landscape and greed and graft an acceptable daily activity?
Prof Lungu 8 years ago
As we've said more than once, you do not arrest a study at 10% then objectively tell people these are our results at 10%, deal with it, Ghana, while our party junkets to the Ivory Coast on another expedition!
ITEM: As a co ... read full comment
As we've said more than once, you do not arrest a study at 10% then objectively tell people these are our results at 10%, deal with it, Ghana, while our party junkets to the Ivory Coast on another expedition!
ITEM: As a colleague said, why didn't Bawumia send his case and report officially to the EC, or file a case in open court?
WE WILL REPEAT:
GhanaHero.Com took a look at the Dr. Bawuma Power Point slides. We concluded that Dr. Bawumia failed to make a compelling case for a new voter's register this stage of the effort, just 14 months from the elections.
See our response in our Power Point slides!
See/read our analysis at www.GhanaHero.com/Visions
(See it under Prof Lungu say.... We have a link to the Dr. Bawumia report. Then compare!).
Yes, Dr. Bawumia's Case has more gas than evidence!
Prof Lungu 8 years ago
Brig-Gen J. Odei, retired, we must assume, says a lot in his essay.
We do not have time to respond by way of comment to the may points except to say that we took a look at the Dr. Bawuma Power Point slides and concluded ... read full comment
Brig-Gen J. Odei, retired, we must assume, says a lot in his essay.
We do not have time to respond by way of comment to the may points except to say that we took a look at the Dr. Bawuma Power Point slides and concluded Dr. Bawumia failed to make a compelling case for a new voter's register this stage of the effort, just 14 months from the elections.
See/read our analysis at www.GhanaHero.com/Visions
(See it under Prof Lungu say.... We have a link to the Dr. Bawumia report. Then compare!)
READ: "...The low turnout at the just ended District Council elections is a serious indictment on the performance of the Commission because it is its responsibility to make the district elections more attractive and convincing for the electorate to participate in it. Article 45(d), which is one of the functions, directs the EC, “to educate the people on the electoral process and its purpose”..."
WE SAY: "to educate the people" does not suggest to us the EC must inspire, even compel people to go vote for a party they do not like, want, or even care about! So, where do we get this "attractive" from? What is the role of political parties themselves. Why is that not an indictment of the political parties, educational systems, even the Constitution itself that the NPP itself failed to reform when they had the best chances all those 8 years?
FINALLY THIS: "... Prof. Jega of Nigeria provided transparent and incredible leadership qualities and succeeded in organising the only credible elections ever held in Nigeria..."
WE SAY: We will also end with a "Proverb", but not from the Bible. In the first, most Ghanaians, when they are at the realistic selves, will laugh at, "A good name is more desirable than great riches”.
Tell that to the Anas Judges, Brig-Gen!
Instead, we prefer the more earthly, realistic one, like "The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors,” by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Playwright, Poet, Novelist and Dramatist. 1749-1832).
For our part, Dr. Kwadwo Afari-Djan did the best for Ghana all those years. He deserves recognition, to include the 2 occasions the NPP won elections, under his administration of the EC!
Excellent Piece, General,
Our problem in Ghana at the moment is that the EC and its “supporters” do not seem to realise the seriousness of the position in which they find themselves. With a population of 25m over 38% of ...
read full comment
YOUR: "...The pathetic Afari-Djan himself admitted way back in 2008 that Ghana’s electoral register was over-bloated and not fit for purpose..."
WE SAY: Read our response to Bawumia and come back again, KKO.
Further, ...
read full comment
Just do the simple arithmetic; or I forget that some of you guys are averse to factual figures!
Nice try, Baidoo-name-sake!
Yes, we've done a lot of "simple arithmetic...factual figures", and have shown that Bawumia has more gas than evidence.
Go and look at our report, compare, and come back again!
Your: ". ...
read full comment
Some snippets for you. Those are 2010 Census figures that are readily available on the internet!
It is said that it is polite to acknowledge the least good anyone extends to you, therefore, it behooves upon us in NPP UK Br ...
read full comment
KKO,
It is clear to us you have not bothered to read our responses to Bawumia, and yet, want to prolong this conversation with "snippets" from politicians and solitary examples!
EJURA-SEKYEDUMASE is a long way and many ...
read full comment
That is the problem with you leftists hiding in America and other places. You simply run away from reality when it does not favour you.
My comment on General Odei’s article only made a passing reference to the criminal i ...
read full comment
IF SHE COMPILE A NEW REGISTER SHE WILL YOU AND YOUR PAY-MASTERS COMENDATION AND IF NOT THE COMENDATION OF YOUR ARC- ENEMY NDC SO YOU SEE, SHE GET NOTHING TO LOOSE.
IF SHE COMPILE A NEW REGISTER SHE WILL EARN YOU AND YOUR PAY-MASTERS COMENDATION AND IF NOT THE COMENDATION OF YOUR ARC- ENEMY NDC SO YOU SEE, SHE GET NOTHING TO LOOSE.
You're missing not only the fallacies of a new voter register but the pending let down of Ghanaians when it is all said and done Brig-General Odei.
In your own military training and carrier you cannot and do not know of a ...
read full comment
As we've said more than once, you do not arrest a study at 10% then objectively tell people these are our results at 10%, deal with it, Ghana, while our party junkets to the Ivory Coast on another expedition!
ITEM: As a co ...
read full comment
Brig-Gen J. Odei, retired, we must assume, says a lot in his essay.
We do not have time to respond by way of comment to the may points except to say that we took a look at the Dr. Bawuma Power Point slides and concluded ...
read full comment