Deputy Minister of Information and facts, Pius Enam Hadzide suggests resistance by the opposition NDC and other stress teams against the Electoral Commission in excess of its compilation of the new voters’ sign-up are flawed and not grounded in regulation.
Talking to Roland Walker on JoyNews’ AM Present Tuesday, Mr. Hadzide said all fears that Ghanaian citizens of voting age could be excluded from registering are baseless.
According to him, enough actions have been put in area to guarantee that several options are designed available to qualify for the registration work out.
The “NDC misplaced the discussion from the commencing when you trace violations of the EC prior to 2012 in registering voters who employed files not stipulated in its C.I.”, the Deputy Info Minister reported.
“No Ghanaian will be disenfranchised in this exercising due to the fact the Electoral Fee has set a variety of alternatives in put such as bringing guarantors.”
But the MP for Builsa South, Dr. Clement Apaak, who was also on the clearly show, was not enthused.
According to him, “there are hundreds of thousands of Ghanaians who really don’t have access to a passport or the Countrywide ID Card”, meaning they simply cannot get obtain to the register”, he mentioned.
“If they have to wait around for some two guarantors who them selves have to sign-up before they can do that, then we will stop them from registering in time” Dr. Apaak insisted .
He added: “concerns above 1000’s of voters not receiving registered are true and really should not be belittled”.
The Electoral Fee of Ghana has often insisted that only a new voters’ register can guarantee Ghana has a credible 2020 elections.
Now, the Commission has done a pilot method across the nation.
Primarily based on its timelines, the Commission is expected to get started the registration of new voters in the last week of June 2020.
