Business Executive, Captain (Rtd) Budu Koomson has stated that the Electoral Commission (EC) has a limited time to consider proposals for a new voters’ register in the build up to the 2016 general elections.
After at an Inter Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) meeting on Friday, the EC asked the parties to consider the decision and submit their proposals by September 22.
“I don’t think redoing it now, one and half years to the general elections… I don’t know how long it will take the new EC chair to do this, let us hold this one and may be purge it if there are minors,” he said.
[contextly_sidebar id=”f3aDyywnfhUlsfseuCscQmoDNMOSGsA5″]The NPP together with other interested parties including the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) are petitioning the Electoral Commission for a new voters’ register.
The running mate of Nana Akuffo Addo, Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia at a news conference on Tuesday stated that their investigations had revealed that Ghana’s voters register had the names of more than 76,000 Togolese nationals.
The Commission is expected to decide on the way forward subsequently.
But speaking on The Big Issue, Capt. (Rtd) Budu Koomson blamed the developments on what he described as
He has also blamed instances of a bloated voters’ register on what he described as the negative behaviour of Ghanaians.
“Where is the guarantee that if we start a new register now, we won’t steal, lie or do the wrong things… where is the guarantee? I wonder how much money we spend, we always say we don’t have money and cyclically, every four years, I don’t know how much it costs us,” he stated.
The governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) has already stated it’s stance on the matter, describing Dr Bawumia’s evidence as one that comes from “space.”
Johnson Asiedu Nketia, the General Secretary of the party argued that the evidence provided by the NPP was “deliberately manufactured.”
“The document I saw which they are purporting to be extracts from the Togolese register, if you look at it closely, you will realise that whereas the faces they show on the Ghana register has the picture and name of the individual plus other details, in the case of Togo, they just put the picture there and then put some long serial number there,” he said.
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By: Pius Amihere Eduku/citifmonline.com/Ghana