General News of Friday, 16 April 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comProfessor Ransford Gyampo of the Political Science Department at the University of Ghana says it is time for Ghana to stop inviting foreign observer missions when general elections are held. According to him, Ghana has consistently shown that as a transitional democracy, our system has and continues to grow steadily with each electoral cycle, arguing further that, all that foreign observer missions do is to reiterate issues that local observer missions have articulated. GhanaWeb monitored submissions that he made on Joy FM’s news program 'Top Story' on Thursday while contributing to discussions about the recently released European Union Election Observer Mission's (EU EOM) final report on the 2020 elections. “I think as a country we must start kicking against foreign observer missions because they don’t say anything new that we don’t know already. “They don’t say anything that important local election observation missions like the Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO) have said that they keep saying and is reported on.

Source: GhanaWeb April 16, 2021 06:22 UTC