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Electoral Commission's (EC) registration exercise, which came to an end on Thursday, August 6th, 2020, was characterized by violence and nationality challenges at some registration centres across the country with members of the two main political parties, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and National Democratic Congress (NDC) pointing accusing fingers at one another. 

The NDC accused the NPP of trying to disenfranchise some people and also played the tribal card on the Akufo-Addo government arguing that the deployment of Military to some Regions was an attempt to intimidate people and prevent them from participating in the exercise.

One would have thought that these were the only things that occurred during the exercise but seasoned journalist, Kwesi Pratt has given an intriguing revelation about what some Military personnel were also doing to some people who decided to go and register their names for a voter ID card.

Speaking on Peace FM's ''Kokrokoo'' on Friday, Kwesi Pratt disclosed to the amazement of the panel that some people's nationality was challenged just because the security personnel greeted them in French word ''Bonjour'' and they responded ''Bonjour''.

According to him, that was enough for those people to be branded as non-Ghanaians and so not permitted to register their names.

''They ask you 'bonjour' and when you respond 'bonjour', they say you're a Togolese . . . Another thing is that they challenge your handwriting saying your handwriting is Togolese handwriting, so you're not a Ghanaian...'', he said.

To him, these were some of the petty things that caused some people to be angry, resulting in chaos in some of the registration centres.

''The issue of nationality is a complicated matter. It's not that simple . . . Why won't there be a fight if you're using handwriting to verify a person's citizenship?'' he questioned.