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 Information available to The Enquirer indicates
that a secret war is looming at the Ghana Institute of Journalism
among the lecturers and administrators of the institute over a
‘fake’ certificate produced by Nana
Akomea, the campaign communication director of the New Patriotic
Party (NPP), on behalf of Ahmed Arthur, a parliamentary aspirant of
the party.Nana Akomea, in his bid to support Ahmed Arthur during
the partyÂ’s parliamentary primaries, secured a
certificate from the GIJ in the name of Arthur, who himself had
confessed to the leadership of the party that though he did short
courses at the GIJ, the school does not award certificates.The
certificate, which Akomea got, through his bosom friend (name
withheld) at the institute, has set tongues wagging not only among
the leadership of the NPP, but also lecturers of the GIJ.This paper
has gathered exclusively that the ‘fake
certificateÂ’ is now being debated upon by the
leadership of the party.According to our reports, after the
certificate, which was given to the leadership of the party by Nana
Akomea, on behalf of his protégé, Ahmed
Arthur, lecturers are arming themselves with moves to haul the
Rector of het School, Mr. David Newton, who is widely known to be a
true friend of the NPP guru, and his Deputy Registrar to explain
the circumstances leading to the contradictory positions by the two
school authorities.In a letter written by Mrs. Patience Sowa, the
Deputy Registrar, dismissing he allegations that Ahmed Arthur had
done short courses from the institute, another letter purportedly
signed by the Rector contradicted the RegistrarÂ’s.This
paper has gathered that while the Deputy Registrar, Mrs. Patience
Sowah, has stated categorically that the GIJ has no records on the
educational status of Ahmed Arthur, the Rector is also claiming
that he has documents which indicated that Ahmed Arthur did a
course at the school.Interestingly, the Rector, who is a bosom
friend of Nana Akomea, the NPPÂ’s former Minister of
Communication and member of Parliament for Okaikoi South, is
believed to have aided Nana Akomea to secure the certificate with
the name ‘Hon. Ahmed Arthur” and
submitted it to the NPP leadership on behalf of the candidate at a
meeting.Meanwhile, our information is that the candidate himself
has admitted to the party that he has no certificates and that for
the short courses run by the GIJ, certificates were not given.As if
that was not enough, Ahmed Arthur told the partyÂ’s
Vetting Committee that his certificates had been taken away by
flood, rendering him ‘certificate less’
like Mr. Jack Obetsebi-Lamptey, the NPP national chairman, and
Sheikh I. C. Quaye, former Greater Accra Regional Minister.In a
letter dated, May 23, this year, signed by Mrs. Patience Sowah, in
response to verification of educational status of Ahmed Arthur by
Ms. Vivian Addae, the Okaikoi South Constituency chairperson of the
NPP, reads, “Your letter dated May, 5, 2011 on the
above subjects refers: I regret to inform you that we do not have
any records on Mr. Ahmed Arthur. In fact, we do not have any
profile of him in our records on participants of our short courses
in the past ten years.”Days after the Registrar had
exposed the lies of the NPP member, Nana Akomea was able to secure
the certificate under mysterious circumstances which is setting
tongues wagging at the GIJ on why and how he got the
certificate.   Source:
The Enquirer   Â