Wild reports on social media about the death of the former Chairman of the Electoral Commission, Dr. Kwadwo Afari Gyan, have forced the man in question to come out to rubbish the news.
Reports had earlier suggested he was unwell and the subsequent news of his supposed death spread fast on Facebook, Whatsapp and Twitter.
But this morning, in an interview with Accra-based Atinka FM, Dr. Afari Gyan, aged 70, said he was alive and currently in his hometown in the Brong Ahafo Region.
“I am alive and very well, I don’t even have a headache. I am currently in the village and farming,” he said.
Dr. Afari Gyan worked as a lecturer and a professor in Political Science at the University of Ghana. He has also lectured in the United States and Nigeria.
He was a member of the Committee of Experts that drafted the Fourth Republican Constitution for Ghana.
In 1992, he was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Interim National Electoral Commission by the then PNDC, which was ruling as a military junta, with the hope of returning the country to civilian rule.
He eventually chaired the EC for 23 years.
Last year, he was awarded the Order of the Star of Ghana, the highest national award, by President John Mahama.
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By: Philip Nii Lartey/citifmonline.com/Ghana