Politics of Friday, 31 January 2020Source: ghananewsagency.orgNew voters' register dates coincides with Ramadan period – Muslim CouncilJean Mensa, EC ChairpersonThe Federation for Muslim Council Ghana, has called on the Electoral Commission (EC), to review its date set for the compilation of the new voters register because it falls within the year’s Ramadan period. In a press statement copied to the Ghana News Agency and signed by Al-Hajj Muhammed Amir Kpakpo Addo, Secretary-General of the Federation said hopefully the Muslim month of fasting which is the ninth month of the year on the Islamic calendar would commence on Thursday, April, 23, 2020 and end on Saturday, May 23, 2020. It said the ECs announced date for the exercise from April 18, 2020 to May 23 2020, would coincide with the fasting period and would discomfiture Muslims nationwide. “This was not in Ramadan, neither were the victims even fasting,” it said. It said preferably the EC should review the registration exercise to a day after the Idul Fitr holiday to avoid many Muslims being disenfranchised come December 7, 2020.

Source: GhanaWeb January 30, 2020 18:22 UTC