AN US-BASED GHANAIAN and Political Activist, Dr. Lawrence Appiah has taken swipe at the officers in charge of issuing passports, Tax ID Number (TIN) and driver’s license and said they must be charged for aiding and abetting.
According Dr. Appiah, these officers who issued the two passports, two TINs, and the driver’s license to Reverend Victor Kusi Boateng aka Kwabena Adu Gyemfi on three different dates of births must be brought to book.
The US-based Ghanaian Political Activist explained that those officers in their various service institutions were very much aware that their actions amount to a criminal offence yet, they went ahead to issue the official documents to the Reverend, who is a confidant of President Akufo-Addo, because under this President anything is possible, and one could get away with it.
It was noted that the name of the mother of the Reverend was identified as Yaa Gyamfua in one set of document while she is also known by another name Agnes Ataah in another set of document. The Director of Ghana’s Register General must also answer questions to that effect, Dr. Appiah posited.
Dr. Appiah was surprised that members of the ruling NPP saw nothing wrong with a so-called man of God presenting two sets of identity to acquire a number of state/legal documents with the same fingerprints, and they rose to his defense with alacrity.
He posed that the NPP wants to tell Ghanaians that Rev. Victor Kusi Boateng aka Kwabena Adu Gyamfi didn’t know it is illegal, criminal and sinful to use two different legal names with three different dates of birth at the same time?
Dr. Appiah explained that “the normal practice is that, yes, at a time in one’s life, one can have two, three or more names but only one of the names is on all legal documents and used officially. Once you swear an affidavit to use your current name, all the previous names cease to be on your official documents going forward”.
“….you will still have the old name on your old documents and they are valid, so far as you have an affidavit supporting your new name. You cease to use your old name on any current/new documents. This is the normal practice. Anything in excess of that is illegal, criminal, sinful and should be investigated”, he charged.
But NPP told Ghanaians that the Rev. has “Victor Kusi Boateng” on his current Diplomatic Passport and has “Kwabena Adu Gyamfi” on his current Driver’s license. So, the “Man of God” has two different names on two different official documents with two different dates of birth. “This too, the NPP are defending it; they look so ridiculous when they cite a certain Supreme Court ruling”, Dr. Appiah lamented.
The Us-based Ghanaian Political Activist further quizzed that the NPP wants to tell Ghanaians that the Secretary to the Board of Trustees (Rev. Kusi Boateng) of the “National Cathedral”, a learned fellow, didn’t know that Rev. Victor Kusi Boateng and Kwabena Adu Gyamfi are two different legal names and cannot be used concurrently on two different official documents? Then what kind of man of God is he?
For Christ sake, the man in question is a man of God, having at least 500 church members, a business man who has traveled all over the world and the Secretary to the Board of Trustees of the National Cathedral; It is very strange that he got himself into the trouble he finds himself now, Dr. Appiah opined.
“If I should think far, is Kwabena Adu Gyamfi the reason why the Supreme Court ruled that the birth certificate is no longer a legal document to identify ourselves as Ghanaians? I am thinking like that because I don’t know which legal documents the man of God used to acquire both the ordinary and diplomatic passports, and driver’s license at two different dates. Shouldn’t this too be investigated?, he aloud.
Adding Dr. Lawrence Appiah posited that, “when they said everything is possible under President Akufo-Addo, I didn’t believe it but now I believe”.
I just have one name, which is on all my official documents, that is what non-criminals do, he stated.
Mahama Reba.
Dr. Lawrence is the Founder of the Diaspora Progressive Movement (DPM) in USA.
Source: Nationaltymes.com
