Ayariga Must Shut His Mouth If He Has No Credible Facts To Speak About Albinism

Hassan Ayariga

Ghana Association of Persons with Albinism-GAPA is asking Hassan Ayariga to shut his mouth if he has no credible facts to speak about albinism.

Albinism is an inherited genetic condition caused by lack of the pigment melanin, which gives color to the hair, skin and eyes. Person with albinism must inherit copies of the gene from each parent in order to have the condition.

Most persons with albinism have white skin, white hair, and no pigment in the eyes. The iris (colored part of the eye that encircles the pupil) is a pale bluish pinkish color, while the pupil may actually be red. This redness comes from light entering the pupil and reflecting off of blood vessels in the retina, the light-sensitive layer of tissue lining the back of the eyeball. Normally, the pupil appears black because pigment molecules in the retina absorb light entering the eye, preventing it from bouncing back to the outside world which explains why most persons with albinism, have vision problems.

However, Hassan Ayariga ignorantly made a horrific and disappointing remark about albinism. speaking on Class FM on Tuesday may 31, Hassan Ayariga has said “I did some survey and I was told anybody can give birth to an albino, but the process is this way: ‘…If your wife is bleeding and in the process you are too hungry and you don’t want to wait until it’s over, and you decide to do the thing while she’s bleeding, in the process if she gets pregnant – you know some [women] can get pregnant even while bleeding – that is when that particular child [albino] is born.’ That’s what I’m told, because of the process of blood [flow]. So, if in that process it happens that there are some women, who are too fertile even as they bleed, [then they can give birth to an albino].”

This comment does not only reveal Hassan Ayariga’s lack of credible information about albinism but also a serious disgrace and disappointment to himself and the degrees he claims to have acquired. We think that Hassan Ayariga should have known better and help to educate the public about the condition but he has rather clearly demonstrated his ignorance and lack of professionalism and communication skills. It is very dyslogistic for an educated person like him to coin new myths to mislead people understanding about albinism.

If Ayariga claims what he said is true then he should show us where he did the survey for us to confirm it. He should also provide evidence by sleeping with his wife in her menstrual period to produce person with albinism for us to see.

If people like Hassan Ayariga are seeking to rule Ghana, and are unfortunately given the opportunity, then Ghana will be reversing or backing down to the barbaric era when things were mostly done based on myths and hearsay. Once he has heard some false story and did not verify but began to disseminate it then there is no difference between him and those ancient African leaders who also heard that selling their own people into slavery can make them rich.

GAPA is therefore asking the general public to ignore this unpopular and inexperienced politician and his queer and unscientific ways of coining tentative theories.

For more information kindly contact the National Advocacy Officer on 0206603388 or WhatsApp 0244739094.

………..Signed………..

Adam Abdul Wahab
(National Advocacy Officer)