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NDC demands an audit of the information system of
EC
Koforidua, June 30, Ghanadot/GNA - The National Democratic
Congress (NDC) has demanded a complete auditing of the
Information Management System of the Electoral Commission
(EC).
It has also requested that the voters register for the
December elections should be made available to the various
political parties at least two months before the elections.
The party is also demanding that all the necessary resources
be made available to the EC and it must be supported to
acquire the necessary technology to enable its information
system to capture all the information on the voters’
registers of the country.
These came out at a press conference organized by the
Regional Chairmen of the party after a three-day Regional
Chairmen Confab at Koforidua on Sunday. It was chaired by Mr
Julius Debrah, the Eastern Regional Chairman of NDC.
The party also requested that the EC took all the necessary
measures to resolve the challenges raised in the report of
the committee which investigated the discrepancies in the
voters’ registration in Ashanti and other regions.
Mr Daniel Ohene-Agyekum, Ashanti Regional Chairman of the
party denied that the party went public immediately it
realized that the voters’ register was blotted.
He explained that when the issue came up in the Ashanti
Region, the party first raised the issue on the quiet with
the Ashanti Regional Director of the EC.
Mr Ohene-Agyekum said the Regional Director promised to take
up the matter but after waiting for a long time without and
response from the EC, the party decided to take the issue up
with its national headquarters and to go public on it.
He said the report of the committee which was set up by the
EC to go into the issue and the report of the subsequent
review committee indicated that there were serious issues
which needed to be solved before the December elections to
enable the country have credible elections.
Mr John Abu, the Western Regional Chairman of the party
called on the EC to develop the capacity to check and
protect the database of the voters’ register.
He said it must endeavour to acquire the necessary
programmes that would enable all the information from the
various regions to be held together and not on different
diskettes.
GNA
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