<<Print>>An ambassador of Persons Living with Albinism has called on Ghanaian voters to reject the founder of All People’s Congress (APC), Hassan Ayariga as President if he contests the 2016 elections.
The former flagbearer of the People’s National Convention (PNC) speaking about discrimination against Persons Living with Albinism, as well as recent fears expressed by such persons in Ghana that they risked being targeted and ritually murdered by politicians to enhance their electoral fortunes in the forthcoming November presidential and parliamentary polls, the APC flagbearer said:
“I did some survey and I was told anybody can give birth to an albino, but the process is this way: ‘…If your wife is bleeding and in the process you are too hungry and you don’t want to wait until it’s over, and you decide to do the thing while she’s bleeding, in the process if she gets pregnant – you know some [women] can get pregnant even while bleeding – that is when that particular child [albino] is born.’ That’s what I’m told, because of the process of blood [flow]. So, if in that process it happens that there are some women who are too fertile even as they bleed, [then they can give birth to an albino].”
This statement of the politician has attracted widespread condemnation from various persons in society including Adom FM's Kofi Adomah who was recently appointed an Ambassador of the group thinks Hassan Ayariga deserves the condemnation he is receiving.
Speaking on the Ayarigated Sports, a segment on Adom FM’s Drive Time Show, Ofiekwanso Tuesday, Kofi Adomah said Hassan Ayariga exhibited "high levels of ignorance" with his comments and hence deserves to be checked.
“I think he is not fit to be President if this is his thinking line…there are many persons in Ghana living with albinism but if you can say this, then this is quite unfortunate, I don’t think everything is fine with him, if this is his thinking, he is not fit…,” he said.
According to Kofi Adomah, the President of the Persons Living with Albinism and the members of the Association who are unhappy about the statement are also ‘calling on Ghanaians to reject Hassan Ayariga.’
“If this is the way he thinks, I don’t actually know he can help Ghana…he has only showed us a fraction of what he thinks, there may be others we do not know about…,” he said.
Kofi Adomah therefore demanded an "unqualified apology" from Hassan Ayariga for the statement which has made Albinos a laughing stock on social media.
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