Committee, stakeholders remain\u00a0<\/strong>unconvinced<\/b><\/p>\n According to Mr. Osei-Owusu, at the committee level, \u201cAll of us were not in agreement that everything will be okay so many expressed fears that the calendar itself that the EC presented, is so tight that indeed some of the dates for activities overlap, therefore should any slight error happen, there is the likelihood the elections cannot happen.\u201d<\/p>\n He also revealed that \u201cthere were concerns and fears raised by practically all stakeholders that appeared before the committee.\u201d<\/p>\n Mr. Osei-Owusu indicated that, the EC itself assured the committee that it will be able to deal with all the issues \u201cbut the committee observed that the word of mouth is not enough.\u201d<\/p>\n Issues with funding<\/strong><\/p>\n One of the main concerns raised by the committee pertained to the financing of the election, as Mr. Osei-Owusu indicated that, the almost Ghc700 million that government said it has released to the EC, may actually only be on paper.<\/p>\n \u201cFor example, financially, the alleged release of money is only a paper release. The actual sum of money is much less than what is announced to have been released up to the second quarter.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe biggest work of the committee requires finance for training, for equipment, for paying for printing of materials all in the third quarter, no release has been done, let alone disbursement. So it is not sufficient to just say money will be given or we are ready,\u201d the ranking member added.<\/p>\n EC still planning with December in mind<\/strong><\/p>\n Despite the push for the\u00a0November 7 date for the 2016 elections, the EC\u00a0has said it is working towards the elections with a December date in mind, and that voting could take place in\u00a0November or the usual December 7 .<\/p>\n According to the Commission, it is putting measures in place to ensure that Ghanaians go to the polls in November, but is also working towards December, in case it is unable to meet the November deadline.<\/p>\n The Director of Electoral Services at the EC, Samuel Tetteh, has disclosed to the media that his outfit is “also working towards the 7th<\/sup> November, so that in case the 7th<\/sup> November goes through we can go by it, if not and its 7th<\/sup> December we can go by that. So both dates are possible but we are working towards the 7th<\/sup> November general elections.\u201d<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A\u00a0ranking member of the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee of Parliament, has suggested that the November 7 date tabled for the general elections, is still shrouded in uncertainty despite the his committee recommending a change of the December date. The ranking member, Joseph Osei-Owusu, has\u00a0argued that the Electoral Commission (EC) is so far not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":232540,"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":[2647,2648,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2647","category-election","category-slider-1","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232538","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=232538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/232540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Director](\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_0286.jpg\")