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Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr, is clearly dumbfounded.

His amazement has to with the fact that a leading member of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) made a "shocking" confession on radio last week; yet it did not make the headlines.

Quite recently, the Supreme Court ordered the Electoral Commission (EC) to delete over 56,000 people registered with National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) cards ahead of the 2012 general elections.

This was after the electoral body presented over 56,000 names - as ordered by the court - as the full list of Ghanaians who were captured onto the voters’ register using the NHIS card, as proof of Ghanaian citizenship ahead of the 2012 elections.

Moments after, some individuals and organisations raised doubts about the credibility of the list.

Former Attorney General and private legal practitioner, Ayikoi Otoo, questioned the credibility of the list, together with President of IMANI Ghana, Franklin Cudjoe.

Even Mr. Abu Ramadan, the complainant in the suit, together with his lawyers, rejected the figure describing as spurious, when it was presented to the Court.

They filed an application to challenge the figures, but could not produce anymore names when the Chief Justice challenged them to do so, hence the ruling of the court for the 56,000 names to be deleted.





has suggested that it is wrong to create the impression that it was only the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) who mobilised people to register with the NHIS cards.

This is because a deputy Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has revealed that the party also took part in mobilising people to register with NHIS cards.

If you may recall, the Electoral Commission (EC) disclosed that 56,000 people registered with National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) cards ahead of the 2012 general elections.








The deputy Communications Director whose name was not mentioned was speaking to the fact that the names submitted by the EC as those who registered with NHIS cards cannot be true.

Kwesi Pratt stated during a panel discussion on Radio Gold’s Alhaji and Alhaji that: “In the course of the week I heard a deputy communications director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) on radio precisely on Peace FM saying that the figure which was supplied by the Electoral Commission cannot be true and that something is wrong that…far more people registered with the NHIS cards

…he said me; I was on Tech (KNUST) campus during the registration and I mobilised hundreds of people to register with the NHIA cards; his own words not mine. So all these noise; there are people in the NPP who are saying publicly that they went out to mobilise people to register with NHIA cards…”

He made this comment because according to him, the allegation in the public domain is that it was the ruling National Democratic Congress who mobilised people to register with the NHIS cards.

But “now we are being told that the NPP did the same…and throughout the week I was thinking that this was going to be a major issue…silence; nobody is talking about it…this is a deputy director of communications saying that they mobilised people to go and register with NHIS cards and there is total silence”