General News of Monday, 10 August 2020Source: www.ghanaweb.com'EC is back to square one' – Imani Ghana insistsVice President of policy think tank, IMANI Ghana, Bright SimonsPolicy think tank, Imani Ghana insists that the Electoral Commission, headed by Jean Mensa, achieved nothing short of a wasteful enterprise after embarking on the month-long registration exercise to compile a new voters roll. Imani Ghana which has been an avid critic of the Electoral Commission since the commission initiated plans to compile a new register, still remains unenthused about the result obtained after the compilation. Per the content of Imani’s periodic alert titled ‘The EC is back to square one’ the policy think tank believes the EC only wasted the tax payers’ resources on an venture which had other viable and less costly alternatives. According to Imani Ghana, the EC spent nothing less than $185 million on the new voters registration exercise which could have been equally carried out with less than $40 million. As we have persistently argued, at most $35 million would have been required had the EC listened to sound counsel and used the existing infrastructure.”Imani Ghana’s Vice President, Bright Simons had earlier in a media interaction thumped EC’s argument that the country required a new voters register because the old roll was over bloated with name of foreigners, amongst others.

Source: GhanaWeb August 10, 2020 12:11 UTC