General News of Monday, 18 December 2017Source: classfmonline.comROPAA judgment todayplay videoThe High Court will pass judgement on the eleven-year delay in implementing the ROPAA lawThe High Court, Human Rights Division presided by His Lordship Justice Anthony K. Yeboah, will today, Monday, 18 December deliver judgment in the case brought by five citizens in connection with the eleven-year delay in implementing the ROPAA law (REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2006 [ACT 699].) The Kufuor administration superintended the passage into law in 2006, of Act 699, to allow citizens, including dual nationals, to be registered abroad and to vote from abroad. The EC set up a committee in 2011 which produced some modalities but has since been silent on the project. They have contended that it discriminatory to allow only Ghanaians studying abroad and staff of Ghana’s Mission/Embassies abroad to be registered and vote from abroad. The case was originally filed in 2016 but withdrawn ahead of the elections and refilled after the elections.

Source: GhanaWeb December 18, 2017 07:18 UTC