The General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC,) Johnson Asiedu Nketia has jumped to defense of the Electoral Commission(EC) \u00a0saying it is not a useless organisation despite its past mistakes.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”sUhMqpFUJzy7L3MTLpiai7b4XOhBhCjp”]The EC has been intensely criticised by many Ghanaians after some major stakeholders pointed out some loopholes in its recent registration exercise.<\/p>\n
The EC was compelled to call off the exercise after it emerged they had not fully complied with the Constitution requirements for the registration process.<\/p>\n
Aside this challenge, many Ghanaians have heavily condemned the Commission for wasting GHC 300 million on botched elections.<\/p>\n
Speaking on Eyewitness News<\/strong>, Mr. Nketia admitted that though the EC had made “a few mistakes”, he will be \u201chesitant in concluding\u201d that it had become a \u201ctotally useless organisation that should be scrapped or handled in a certain way.\u201d<\/p>\n He further downplayed calls for EC officials to be prosecuted, describing such calls as baseless.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t have any basis to be mentioning individuals\u2019 names for punishment.I accept that they were mistakes done by the Commission but the blame is to the Commission.<\/p>\n “I don\u2019t attend meetings with them, and I don\u2019t know who caused the mistakes. I don\u2019t know if it was the whole Commission or an individual as some people are trying to claim so why should I be calling for the heads of some individuals when I don\u2019t have that basis,:\u201d he argued.<\/p>\n He also suggested that EC officials who had made some mistakes in the past should be corrected according to the Constitution.<\/p>\n “When people make mistakes,there ought to be people to correct them and I am happy that I was<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By; Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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