The Minority caucus in Parliament has backed calls for a new national voters’ register.
Addressing journalists in Accra on Monday the Minority Leader, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu re-emphasized the need for the Electoral Commission (EC) to create a new voters’ register, saying : “against the background of the serious issues that Dr. Bawumia and the New Patriotic Party have raised in respect of the voters register, we would have wished that a different and more credible voters register should be used for the Assembly and other elections.”
[contextly_sidebar id=”9dCZqCWNgN1RwfJnMQyxQyroFcr67oc1″]The NPP tasked the EC to compile a new register before the District Assembly election is conducted.
The Suame legislator however, admitted that while it would have been proper to use an entirely new and credible register for the conduct of Tuesday’s polls, postponing the elections until a new and credible register is compiled will not be feasible.
He was however quick to add that though the “outcome of the District Assembly elections may not impinge on the modal issues that the party has meticulously studied,” it is the party’s expectation the elections will not undermine the necessary considerations that the “electoral commission shall have to accord the issues that have been raised.”
Minority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, also claimed he has evidence that in the absence of properly constituted and functioning local assemblies almost the entire nation’s local assemblies have made expenses from the public kitty without lawful authority.
“Almost all the assemblies are making expenditures on a daily basis. You ask and some of them say that they have been given a ceiling.”
By: Marian Efe Ansah/citifmonline.com/Ghana
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