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.
They believe the two major political parties are to be blamed for the high number of NHIA card holders in the voters register.
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.
Then just last week, Henry Nana Boakye, a member of the NPP's Communication Team also dismissed the EC's figures for Ashanti Region saying he has empirical evidence to show the list is not a true reflection of the data.
"...the EC's figure for Ashanti Region cannot be correct Kwami (Sefa Kayi)...when i was TESCON President at the KNUST, i assisted quite a number of NHIS card holders (as proof of identity) within my constituency to be captured in the voters register, so the EC is lying," he said.
The Senior Journalist alluded to the statement during a panel discussion on Radio Gold’s Alhaji and Alhaji.Stopping short of naming the NPP Communicator, Mr Pratt stated; “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…”
Hitherto, Mr Pratt noted, the allegation in the public domain was 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”.
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