Speaking on Asaase Radio, Baako said that it is imperative that the comment by the Executive Director of the National Identification Authority is interrogated within the right context. He revealed that Professor Attafuah was responding to calls and threats against him over the hiring of team leads for an ongoing NIA exercise. On the same platform, Professor Ransford Gyampo said that Professor Attafuah ought to be commended for his decision to depoliticize the NIA. “My position is that the president may have given those instructions to Attafuah, in my view, he should have just implemented these instructions on the quiet. But coming out publicly to make these pronouncements would also necessarily infuriate those through whose support you got your job.

Source: GhanaWeb June 12, 2021 06:33 UTC