A member of the New Patriotic Party says the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) cannot pretend it is an infallible institution and beyond criticism. Yaw Buabeng Asamoah insists so long as human beings work at the GSS they are prone to mistakes and must not be defensive about it when those mistakes are pointed out to them. He was reacting to the acting government’s statistician, Philomena Nyarko who expressed the GSS disappointment with doubts raised over the statistical service figures by the NPP vice presidential candidate Dr Mahamudu Bawumia. Bawumia at a public lecture said the inflation figures churned by the Service and which the government has been vociferous in describing as unprecedented are suspect. He said the single digit inflation did not correspond with the other macro economic fundamentals such as the interest rate the exchange rate, adding the cost of living was sky rocketing by the day. “Do we really have single digit inflation,” he questioned, to which he was answered by a partisan NPP crowd with an emphatic no. But the ruling government has hit back accusing the NPP Vice presidential candidate of being intellectually dishonest. On Wednesday, the GSS also waded into the controversy with a caution to the NPP vice president not to impugn the integrity of the service. Its acting boss Philomena Nyarko said at a press conference the GSS is unhappy with Bawumia’s comments. She said the Service is completely independent and professional in its mandate, asking, rhetorically, if the NPP, whilst in office tempered with the figures and activities of the service.