The Nationwide Communications Officer for the Nationwide Democratic Congress (NDC) has described as disrespectful, the alleged refusal of the Electoral Commission (EC) chair to honour an invitation by the National Property of Chiefs.
Sammy Gyamfi explained classic authorities engage in a important function in Ghana’s security and democracy, for this reason an insult to the values and customs of the state for Jean Mensah to refuse their invitation.
“We are appalled by the Jean Mensah-led EC’s refusal to honor the invites of the National Property of Chiefs, which had been meant to market dialogue on the make a difference of the EC’s entrenched final decision to compile a new voters’ register for 2020 standard elections.
“Our Classic Authorities, are critical stakeholders in Ghana’s peace architecture and have contributed enormously to the peace, security and democracy of this state.
“The refusal of the Jean Mensah-led EC to honor their invites is really disrespectful and an insult to the values and customs of this country, and will have to be condemned by all perfectly-indicating Ghanaians.”
Given that the announcement by the Electoral Commission of a determination to compile a new voters sign up in advance of the December 7, various establishments including the NDC have expressed problems about the exercises with numerous describing it an pointless.
The outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic led to a halt in the things to do of the EC, who experienced slated the registration for April 18.
When the NDC had argued that the determination to compile the sign up is to support the ruling get together to rig the elections and disenfranchise most Ghanaians, the EC insists the outdated register is bloated and should be transformed to fairly be certain a credible election.
The subsequent ban on community gathering in a bid to stop a distribute of the virus was welcomed by lots of because a collecting of far more than 25 folks was illegal.
But President Akufo-Addo in his 10th handle to the nation spelled out that the Electoral Fee and the Nationwide Identification Authority (NIA) ended up exempted from the directive.
While insisting on a ban on political rallies, the President also reported churches and universities can reopen but with limited attendance and constraints.
Unimpressed with the most up-to-date improvement, Mr. Gyamfi insists the easing of these restrictions is only a ruse to the President’s primary agenda.
In accordance to him, it tends to make very little or no feeling why church buildings and mosques are supposed to have not additional than 100 people today and need to final for a single hour when the “NIA and the EC have been provided independence to register an unrestricted selection of people from 7am to 5pm, that’s for a period of time of 10 hours”
“We are of the business perception that this final decision is generally intended to pave way for the Jean Mensah-led EC to have out its rigging agenda, via the execution of their needless and wasteful new voter registration agenda.
“It is pretty obvious, that the easing of limitations was determined by the President’s parochial political curiosity and not the curiosity of the country.”
