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NDC asks EC to
put imprimatur on voters’ registration
Accra, Aug. 8, Ghanadot/GNA – Mr.
Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, National Organiser of National
Democratic Congress (NDC) on Friday asked the Electoral
Commission (EC) to stamp its authority on the current
voters’ registration exercise to make the Voters’ Register
credible.
He said; “The reported mass movement of people across
regions and districts to register will lead to double
registration that will make the Voters’ Register blotted and
it will be an abuse on the demographic figures of the
nation.”
Speaking to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) on hiccups involved
in the current registration exercise, Mr Ofosu-Ampofo said
any extension of the exercise would lead to cost to the
country and the political parties.
“What is more important now is to ensure that the EC is able
to iron out problems inherent in the exercise and to ensure
that adequate materials got to their destinations to make
the registration less cumbersome.”
He said even in Accra, the queues of respective registers
who have attained 18 years and above continue to grow and
some registration centres were able to register only two
registers for the whole day.
The reason attached to this phenomenon was that there were
shortages of registration materials.
Mr Ofosu-Ampofo said even if the time of the registration
was extended and the materials were not there and the
operations were not streamlined the problems would continue.
Mr Ofosu-Ampofo said, speaking for NDC, the exercise was
costing the party about two million Ghana cedis and that any
cost on the extension of the registration exercise to the
parties must then be borne by the EC.
Mr Ofosu-Ampofo said by the constitutional autonomy of the
EC no one can dictate to it as to what to do and if anything
at all, it would be at Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC)
meeting that the EC could either accept or reject any
suggestions that would be make to it.
The EC should not be seen as being dictated to by the
Executive or any other party.
GNA
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