Story by Bismark Oppong
Care for Ghana is none governmental organisation who is against for new voter register the electoral commission is yet to do.
Mr David Kumi Addo who is the Executives secretary for care for Ghana addressing the media that, they are calling on the CID to immediately commence investigating Madam Jean Mensah who is the chairperson of the electoral commission and her assigns at the EC, and if possible charged them for causing financial loss to the state. Again, why is she going ahead to register over one million voters a couple of months ago unto a voters register she knows she won't need in the next 5 months they asked, why will she spend that much of our taxes in conducting registration of eligible voters using the current system that she won't need anyway?
Mr David stated that, Ghana is a member of ECOWAS, and Ghana has ratified the ECOWAS protocol in section II, Article 2(I). (Quote) No substantial modification shall be made to the electoral laws in the last six months before the election 2020. We are in the second week of June, all other things being equal, Ghana is left with 5 months to election 2020, so any desperate attempt to compile a new voters register, which amount to a major reform , amount to contravention of the ECOWAS protocol.
We wish to stated this point clear that at no point in Abu Ramadan and Evans Nimako vrs the electoral commission and the attorney General (No 1& 2) that the plaintiff sought relief for the removal of 4,000,000 names of voters who used the NHIS card as proof of identity and the supreme Court at no point made such an order. Supreme Court only ordered the EC to furnish it with the names of person who utilized the NHIS card to register which the EC obliged. The court also ordered the EC to delete the NHIS card to register of voters to comply with the provisions of the 1992 Constitution, and applicable laws of Ghana.
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