Politics of Friday, 17 January 2020Source: peacefmonline.comEC's reason for new voters’ register 'meaningless' - Asiedu NketiaJohnson Asiedu Nketia, General Secretary, NDCGeneral Secretary for the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia says the Electoral Commission (EC) led by Jean Mensa is engaging in propaganda with its call for a new voters’ register for the 2020 General Elections. “We want Ghanaians to understand that the reason for which the EC wants to compile a new voters’ register is not a reason which makes sense. “It is not possible that there will be no ghost name in the voters’ register, but with the biometric voters’ register even if ghost names increase, nobody can use anybody’s name to vote in any election. We had a solution in 2012 to deal with the problem of changing the voters’ register every 10 years when we all agreed to use biometric voters’ register,” he argued. He said all parties agreed that the biometric register should be the permanent register, and the Supreme Court later gave a ruling that the periodic change of voters’ register infringes on human rights.

Source: GhanaWeb January 17, 2020 01:07 UTC