{"id":204707,"date":"2016-04-06T09:52:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T09:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=204707"},"modified":"2016-04-06T09:52:10","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T09:52:10","slug":"baamu-yadda-demo-kicks-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=204707","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Baamu Yadda&#8217; demo kicks off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-opposition pressure groups are converging for Wednesday&#8217;s demonstration on\u00a0the streets of the Ashanti Regional Capital, Kumasi, to press home\u00a0their\u00a0demands for the implementation of some electoral reforms.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-204725\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/20160406022724-3.jpg\" alt=\"20160406022724\" width=\"600\" height=\"374\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The demonstration, dubbed \u201cBaamu Yadda\u201d, to wit \u201cwe will not agree\u201d, is aimed at \u00a0getting the EC to validate the voters\u2019 register \u00a0for \u00a0the November polls\u00a0as suggested by the Justice VCRAC Crabbe panel.<\/p>\n<p>Convener for the group, Let My Vote Count Alliance, David Asante, told <strong>Citi News<\/strong>\u00a0that 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.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-204712\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/20160406022724-2.jpg\" alt=\"20160406022724 (2)\" width=\"600\" height=\"379\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe principal objective of this demonstration is to drum home the need for the Electoral Commission to take the people of Ghana serious. The EC \u2018s committee recommended validation and the EC came out publicly to uphold the report of the committee.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-204711\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/20160406022724-1.jpg\" alt=\"20160406022724 (1)\" width=\"600\" height=\"442\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Most of the political parties who called for\u00a0a new voters\u2019 register accepted the recommendation of the committee only for the EC to do a u-turn \u00a0to say the committee will not \u00a0do any validation.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the Ashanti Regional \u00a0Police Command says it has put in place enough security measures to ensure an incident-free exercise.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013<\/p>\n<p>By:citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-opposition pressure groups are converging for Wednesday&#8217;s demonstration on\u00a0the streets of the Ashanti Regional Capital, Kumasi, to press home\u00a0their\u00a0demands for the implementation of some electoral reforms. &nbsp; The demonstration, dubbed \u201cBaamu Yadda\u201d, to wit \u201cwe will not agree\u201d, is aimed at \u00a0getting the EC to validate the voters\u2019 register \u00a0for \u00a0the November polls\u00a0as suggested by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204707","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=204707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}