LETTER TO AYIKOI OTOO
I just read this news article on Joy FM, and I am amazed that Ayikoi Otto once served as Ghana's Attorney General. This guy has no clue about what is going on.
The news article reads that "Former Attorney General and leading member of the NPP, Ayikoi Otoo, has described Dr. Kwadwo Afari Gyan�s claim that people with permanent trauma were verified as �face only� when they placed their card on the verification machine during voting, as a �strange proposition of the biometric verification system�.
Ayikoi Otoo argued �it is only when you put your fingers on the machine that your picture pops up�, therefore, ��if you are holding a card where do you put it?��
He believes it is the ID card that can be used to check the true identity of the voter and this card cannot be put into the machine ��so what is this strange proposition?��.
MY COMMENT: After reading Ayikoi Otoo's rendition, I am tempted to side with Dr. Charles Wereko Brobbey that people who are vexed in election matters should occupy the front-line of the court case and lead the heated public discussions.
Mr. Aryikoi, you are completely wrong on your point, in fact if we were in court, I would have said that you are out of order. I don't know whether or not you voted in the last election.
Dr. Afari Gyan's explanation is that if a person has permanent disability, he is recognized by face is so simple and basic.
Ayikoi Otoo's argument is that �it is only when you put your fingers on the machine that your picture pops up�, therefore, ��if you are holding a card where do you put it?� begs the question.
That is a such an ignorant argument because the process was that if you get to the voting station, you present your voters ID, your data is scanned by the Biometric machine, because every voter's data on the register is printed with bar code, so once the document is scanned, the person's face shows up on the biometric, it is only after that, that the person is invited to place his finger on the machine in confirmation of his data on the machine and to indicate that he has been seen and processed for voting.
If the person doesn't have fingers, how is he going to place his finger on the machine sir? our argument sounds like asking a cripple to race on two legs.
So Mr. Ayikoi, please when you open you mouth on such a sensitive matter, at least educate yourself on the fundamentals of the issues. Thank you
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