{"id":778726,"date":"2020-01-08T18:34:51","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T18:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2020\/01\/08\/ken-attafuah-must-resign-dr-amakye-boateng\/"},"modified":"2020-01-08T18:34:51","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T18:34:51","slug":"ken-attafuah-must-resign-dr-amakye-boateng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/01\/08\/ken-attafuah-must-resign-dr-amakye-boateng\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Attafuah must resign &#8211; Dr. Amakye Boateng"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Wednesday,  8 January 2020<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>mypurefmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2020-01-08<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/42419456.295.jpg\" alt=\"Prof. Ken Attafuah\" title=\"Prof. Ken Attafuah\" width=\"295\" height=\"163\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Prof. Ken Attafuah<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\" id=\"article-123\">Political Science Lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Dr. Amakye Boateng has called for the head of the Executive Secretary of the National Identification Authority (NIA), Prof. Kenneth Agyeman Attafuah as he has failed to discharge his duties assigned to him by President Akufo-Addo. Mypurefmonline.com reports<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with Kwame Adinkra on Pure FM&#8217;s \u2018Pure Morning Drive\u2019 the lecturer blamed Prof. Attafuah for the numerous challenges that has rocked NIA&#8217;s registration processes across the regions in the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the President must appoint a new person because Prof. Attafuah has failed woefully to manage activities at NIA.<\/p>\n<p>He bemoaned about how people spend several hours at their various registration centers just to obtain a National Identification Card.<\/p>\n<p>The political scientist furthered that; \u201cHe might be a brilliant Lawyer and a Professor, I don\u2019t care about that. This work in particular that he heads has been a total failure. I will score him negative five. They did not prepare well. He took Ghanaians for granted as the information they put out there was even bad. He must resign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Background<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Widespread reports of challenges with the Ghana Card registration in the Ashanti Region have drew an apology from the National Identification Authority (NIA).<\/p>\n<p>Long queues, stolen equipment, slow and delayed process, amid allegations of extortion by registration officials characterized the exercise.<\/p>\n<p>Executive Secretary, Professor Ken Attafuah, described the hardships as needless and blamed the indiscipline on some registration officials and the attitude of some unscrupulous section of the public as the cause of the mess.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe system itself is not slow but the processes. People\u2019s behaviour to get things done their way has contributed to the artificial go-slow,\u201d he told the media in an interview.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Wednesday, 8 January 2020 Source: mypurefmonline.com 2020-01-08 Prof. Ken Attafuah Political Science Lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Dr. Amakye Boateng has called for the head of the Executive Secretary of the National Identification Authority (NIA), Prof. Kenneth Agyeman Attafuah as he has failed to discharge his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":778727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-778726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ken Attafuah must resign - 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