Members of the Inter-Occasion Resistance Against New Voters Register (IPRAN) in the North East Location have despatched a formal grievance versus the Electoral Fee before the Nayiri, the seat of the Mamprugu overlord, Naa Bohagu Abdulai Mahama Sheriga, at the regional funds, Nalerigu.
The coalition built up of executives of almost all the opposition functions in the area offered a petition complete of grievances above the Electoral Commission’s conclusion to compile a new voters’ Sign-up for the 2020 Normal Elections.
The group in the petition claimed to the King indicated that the Ghana Electoral Fee € was embarking on “a tacit try to subvert the Structure of Ghana, suppress the people’s will and impose a governing administration more than us” in the approaching polls.
The petition go through, on behalf of the group, by the Regional Communication Director of the NDC, Imoro Abdul Razak, clarified that team was in support all legitimate ways to tidy up the voters’ sign-up but opposed the try by the electoral fee to limit the breeder files for the compilation of the commonly resisted new sign-up forward of the December, 2020 Basic Elections, to only the national passport and the Ghana Card.
“The exclusion of the Ghanaian start certification and the existing voter Id Card which have hitherto generally been section of the breeder paperwork is of grave issue to us considering the fact that these two documents are preferred to our men and women and have normally been utilised by our individuals for all lawful transactions”, Razak explained.
The team added that the EC’s decision to exclude the two important most important files from the compilation method has no foundation in the Constitution and have to not be encouraged.
“Your Majesty, the query as to who qualifies lawfully to sign up and take part in general public elections and countrywide referenda in Ghana, does not tumble into residue as article 42 of the 1992 Constitution of the Republic of Ghana adequately addresses that. We will need not belabor the issue in adding that, the electoral commission of Ghana does not wield that electric power to de-nationalise any citizen.”
The team additional cautioned that, enabling the Electoral Fee to move forward to amend CI 91 will constitute an abrasion of post 3 clause 2 of the 1992 structure and will also consequently disenfranchised hundreds of thousands of residents of the North East Region.
They additional that the final decision of the EC is a big barrier to the growth of the North East Area.
“In the North East Location, an approximated population of 18 a long time in addition is 397,351 but the NIA could issue only a paltry 123,781 denying 255,570 and this quantities to 67.37% of people not being issued with NIA playing cards. Your Royal Highness this should appeal to your consideration for motion.
“Your Majesty, we have no scintilla of doubt that, not only will continuing with the voter’s registration with this skewed definition of citizenship occur with ripple repercussions, but it will constitute a important barrier to the masses of the natives of the North East Region who will be inhibited from performing exercises their political appropriate as confirmed by the constitution.
The team ongoing “it is acceptable to avert our minds to the fact that, the figures on the voter’s roll from any individual geographical area do not provide only the goal of elections, but this kind of figures add significantly to in deciding the distribution of the largesse of the state as well as for functions of building new Constituencies, Districts, Municipalities and Locations. It is our issue that should the Electoral Commission be allowed to commence with this unpopular registration, our Region will technically be disadvantaged in all these perspectives”.
“Our fears are even further accentuated by studies we assemble from some of our kinsmen in Southern Ghana that, some of our persons had been physically restrained from registering down south for the reason that of their northern decent”.
The group concluded by reiterating its take care of to “to defend this structure and in particular to resist any man or woman or team of persons seeking to commit any of the functions referred to in clause (3) of this report, and known as for the King’s aid.
“We humbly petition you to use your High Office environment to intercede for the great people of the North East Location by the applicable offices so that, the EC is stopped from proceeding with the ploy to disenfranchise the 255,570 natives of the North East Area who have not been issued with the NIA cards and have been requested to go by means of the unpleasant procedure of utilizing Guarantors.
The painful approach of making use of Guarantors is a effectively-planned endeavor to disenfranchise our kinsmen,” the team claimed in the petition handover to the King by the North East regional chairman of the primary opposition party.
The King immediately after obtaining the petition recommended the group to work out more tolerance and decorum in their resistance and certain to make the issue a major priority at the royal court.
“What Main claims is that, what is excellent that has to be performed suitable now, you should really it”, a senior elder at the palace, Mba Taraana, translated the King’s short remarks to the press.
“I feel that we really should all be endurance with one yet another. No insults in the course of our campaigns…and so, he has accepted the petition, he would study it, and then no matter what requirements to be carried out, within his powers as the overlord, he would see what he can do”.
