IT APPEARS OVER

Finally, the hullabaloo about the biometric voter registration appears to be over. Today, May 5, 2012 is the official closing date for the exercise that was bedevilled with scattered problems in certain places in the country. Assaults, insults, denials, arrests, imprisonments, hooting, suspicions, dismissals and accidents all in 43days. Some have said that it's all over but from where I stand, it only appears to be over. Why? I say so because of the piles of challenge forms to be defended in all districts across the length and breadth of Ghana. It will not be in the interest of anybody with cotton stuffed at his butt to think that it's over because the District Review Committees are waiting. If you have challenged, get your documents ready to substantiate your claims. If you have been challenged, get your documents ready to defend yourself. It will be interesting between now and the day of exhibition. I witnessed the challenge of a tiny looking 21year old mother of two at a village near my home town and all I did was, laughed. Then I asked myself, how is this man going to proof beyond every reasonable doubt that this 'tiny' mother of two is under age? Personally,I hold the view that it is difficult to tell the age of any person with or without documentary evidence. Hear this; my elder brother is 2 years older than me yet, he is 4 years younger than me on paper. Assuming you used his documented age to give me a lesser age and my dad and mum are able to proof otherwise, what will the results be? We may all live to witness another show down in 'little' Ghana. In 1995, Mr Nyarko challenged the nationality of Ablavidze knowing very well that Isa had gone to Togo to farm a year earlier when he met, befriended and brought Ablavidze his sweet heart to a market centre in Ghana where they lived. This woman could not speak any Ghanaian language except Ewe which also had the Togolese accent. After the registration exercise, they were invited to meet the review committee where Ablavidze submitted a birth certificate and baptismal certificate both of which indicated she was born in Ghana to a Ghanaian father. What stopped Mr Nyarko was the number of times he had to move to and from the EC office. The documents the EC required, he didn't have any. He backed out finally. Ladies and Gentlemen, I can assume that the exercise has just started though it appears over. Election 2012 is getting hotter and better. I can't wait to be part of this free, fair and peaceful election. Surely, Ghana will not die in an all die be die atmosphere of peace.