Political Science Lecturer and Analyst, Dr. Kwame Asah Asante has cautioned the Inter-Party Advisory Committee and the Inter-Party Resistance Against a New Voters’ Register (IPRNA) on forcing the Electoral Commission to drop the new voters’ register.
According to him the nation and the EC will suffer immensely if it’s forced to drop the compilation of a new voters’ register.
Speaking on Happy98.9FM’s Happy Morning Show he made known that, “if we force the EC to drop the campaign in compiling a new voters’ register and any problem comes with elections they are the same people we will blame”.
On his authority forcing the EC to drop the compilation of the new voters’ register has the probability of affecting the smooth running of the 2020 parliamentary and presidential elections.
Political parties and civil society organizations (CSOs) opposed to the compilation of a new voters’ register ahead of Ghana’s December elections have staged series of street protest to drum home their demand.
These marches are to urge the Electoral Commission (EC) to back down on the decision to replace the existing biometric voters roll.
18 CSOs, including the Ghana Center for Democratic (CDD), IMANI Ghana, and the Ghana Anti-Corruption Coalition (GACC), have also held press briefings declaring their opposition to the compilation of the new register.
The CSOs have averred that, rather than compiling an entirely new register, the EC should open the existing biometric register for verification and update the existing software and hardware of the system.
The EC, however, appears bent on going ahead to compile the new register, as it has given April as the time to commence the new registration.
By: Joel Sanco