{"id":146803,"date":"2015-08-27T13:55:46","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T13:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=146803"},"modified":"2015-08-27T18:50:28","modified_gmt":"2015-08-27T18:50:28","slug":"audio-a-national-id-will-sanitize-voters-register-vcrac-crabbe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=146803","title":{"rendered":"[Audio] A National ID will sanitize voters&#8217; register &#8211; VCRAC Crabbe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former Chairman of the Electoral Commission(EC), Justice V.C.R.A.C Crabbe is\u00a0asking for a national identity document which will correct the credibility issues of the current voters\u2019 register.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s political parties have been divided over the issue of a new voters\u2019 register ahead of election 2016.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;QhOvsNWiL6l7Rb3MIqOPhKQWElMQBley&#8221;]The flagbearer of the NPP, Nana Akuffo Addo and his running mate, Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia at a press conference held last week gave reasons to back their calls for a new national register which they say is bloated hence lacks credibility.<\/p>\n<p>This was after Dr. Bawumia revealed that about<span style=\"color: #666699;\"> <strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/08\/18\/about-80000-togolese-are-in-ghanas-voters-register-bawumia\/\" target=\"_blank\">76,286 Togolese nationals<\/a><\/strong> <\/span>have their names registered in Ghana\u2019s voters\u2019 register.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the Citi Breakfast Show however, Justice Crabbe said Ghana&#8217;s challenges will be resolved if the voters&#8217; register is purged, rather than creating a new one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to take the National ID system very seriously. Perhaps if we solve that, everything will fall into place,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Click on audio to listen to full interview\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/221131308&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Chairman of the Electoral Commission(EC), Justice V.C.R.A.C Crabbe is\u00a0asking for a national identity document which will correct the credibility issues of the current voters\u2019 register. The country\u2019s political parties have been divided over the issue of a new voters\u2019 register ahead of election 2016. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;QhOvsNWiL6l7Rb3MIqOPhKQWElMQBley&#8221;]The flagbearer of the NPP, Nana Akuffo Addo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":146813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-146803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/146813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}