Pro-opposition pressure groups are converging for Wednesday’s demonstration on the streets of the Ashanti Regional Capital, Kumasi, to press home their demands for the implementation of some electoral reforms.
The demonstration, dubbed “Baamu Yadda”, to wit “we will not agree”, is aimed at getting the EC to validate the voters’ register for the November polls as suggested by the Justice VCRAC Crabbe panel.
Convener for the group, Let My Vote Count Alliance, David Asante, told Citi News that the reluctance of the EC to validate voters on the register, which contradicts the recommendations of its own panel of experts is only a recipe for disaster.
“The principal objective of this demonstration is to drum home the need for the Electoral Commission to take the people of Ghana serious. The EC ‘s committee recommended validation and the EC came out publicly to uphold the report of the committee.”
Most of the political parties who called for a new voters’ register accepted the recommendation of the committee only for the EC to do a u-turn to say the committee will not do any validation.
Meanwhile the Ashanti Regional Police Command says it has put in place enough security measures to ensure an incident-free exercise.
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By:citifmonline.com/Ghana