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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – Tuesday 4 August, 2020 The viral videos of persons being prevented from entering voter registration centres is yet another classic manifestation of persistent and dangerous retrogression in ghana. The President of the Republic of Ghana (POTROG) said in Kumasi over the weekend that he was “not aware”! Now that is certainly a stretch. The Fulani have traversed Ghanaian soil for decades, yet there has been no effort by our Parliament to discuss their citizenship and enrol their children – who in many cases are born in Ghana – into our Free Compulsory Universal Basic Education (FCUBE) programme. Even whenRead More →

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By Isaac Ato Mensah Accra – Wednesday 15 July, 2020 During this ongoing voter registration exercise, the tendency to ask people to prove they are Ghanaian has become a contentious matter.  How do you get a Ghanaian or anybody for that matter “rusticated” from a society in which they legitimately belong? Dr. Kwadjo Afari-Djan, the former chairperson of Ghana’s Electoral Commission, always had a simple approach: “Fill a challenge form but the person in question must have the right to register and go away”.  The challenge form will end up in court where it is expected that they who allege “must prove”. The convention forRead More →