Speaking at the STAR Ghana “End of Elections 2016 Call Partners’ Learning Event,” the Chairperson of the EC, Mrs. Charlotte Osei, thanked STAR-Ghana for helping to ensure a peaceful election.

STAR-Ghana prior to the election sponsored a number of civil society organizations, government agencies and the media who were interested in implementing projects aimed at promoting peaceful, credible, issues-based and inclusive elections in 2016.

[contextly_sidebar id=”PYJwklT2afEm4mIrPAolyq3Ykei4g7GO”]“On behalf of the EC, we want to commend STAR Ghana for this program,” Charlotte Osei added.

She also used the opportunity to “thank all the civil society groups that worked with us last year to ensure that the elections were successful.”

The EC Chair revealed that the activities of STAR Ghana contributed to the growth of the country’s Democracy and Stability.

She further stated that the EC will adopt solutions the organization recognizes to better Ghana’s electoral system.

“We look forward to learning from your experiences as you discuss them and we assure you that whatever challenges you identify, areas where you think the EC can do better, we will take those learning experiences onboard and also include it in our future programs.”

Former EC Chairmen, Dr. Afari Gyan and Justice VCRAC Crabbe were present at the learning event.

The two-day event will end on Thursday, March 16, 2017.

It is expected to bring together all project partners to highlight contributions they made towards a peaceful and credible 2016 election.

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By: Michael Tsatsu Axolu/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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Mr. Afrifa Blankson, the Returning Officer for the area, said the figure was the highest to be recorded in the Ashanti Region.

He broke the news at an Inter-Party Dialogue Committee (IPDC) meeting held in Juaso.
The meeting brought together representatives of the various political parties contesting the coming polls, the clergy and Imams.

It was organized by the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) with support from the European Union (EU) and the goal was to discuss ways to ensure responsible conduct by the parties and their supporters.

Mr. Blankson highlighted the need for the political parties to focus effort on helping their members and sympathizers to have better understanding of the electoral laws.

That, he said, was important to remove needless confusion, suspicion and tension.

He asked that they also took the trouble to teach voters how to properly thumbprint the ballot paper in order to significantly reduce the high number of rejected and spoilt ballots during every national election.

He reminded them to also talk their polling agents out of unnecessarily interfering with the work of election officials on voting day.

“The party agents should accept to cooperate with the officials on voting day for successful conduct of the polls across all the 137 polling centres in the constituency,” he said.

Mr. Samuel Kwasi Otchere, the District Director of NCCE, said although the district was not known for electoral violence, nobody should be complacent and that all needed to work together and accept to get right with the law.
He warned against political intolerance and the rejection of foul and intemperate language.

The party representatives pledged their commitment to the peaceful conduct of the December 7 election.

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Source: GNA

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