The governing New Patriotic Occasion (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) have achieved a consensus on the need to have to carry out the December polls irrespective of the havoc wrecked on the country by the novel coronavirus.
The rival get-togethers have not witnessed eye-to-eye above accusations by the NDC that the NPP may perhaps be conniving with the Electoral Fee (EC) in its bid to collate a new voters’ register for the future elections.
Having said that, both equally functions believe the normal elections will have to occur off if the constitutionally stipulated procedure is to see the light of day as a democracy.
In order to do so, Practical Govt Member of the NDC Alex Segbefia argues that there is the have to have to assure that all WHO suggested protocols are out in put to lessen the attainable transmission of Covid-19 after the election.
He spoke to Evans Mensah on PM Specific Might 27, 2020.
“We have to do every little thing feasible to have the election on the 7th of December. It can be completed. We have to put actions and evaluate in position from all the experiences from other countries to be sure that we have the election. Simply because if we don’t, based on the structure we have, I think that we are heading to run into some serious constitutional problems,” he explained on JoyNews.
Also speaking on the demonstrate, Details Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah agreed. He thinks the approach was vital as long as it is backed by information coupled citing international illustrations to buttress his stage.
“There are ways by which, even for Covid-19 patients, countries have observed strategies to let them vote so that they are not disenfranchised and that in the conclusion the sovereign ideal of the people today will not be inhibited in any way and at the very same time pointless threats will not be elevated,” he mentioned.
In the meantime, Public Health and fitness Professional with the World wide Wellbeing Division of the Kwame Nkrumah College of Science and Know-how (KNUST) stressed the need for authorities to offer the vital particular protecting gear, sanitisers, the follow of social distancing among other non-pharmacological modalities to stop the aggravation of the pandemic during the approach.
