General News of Friday, 24 January 2020Source: kasapafmonline.comWe’ve withdrawn one week suspension of protests against new register – Opposition partiesThe group initially suspended the demonstrations after the Y3npini’ Demonstration in KumasiThe Inter Party Resistance Against the New Voter’s Register has condemned what it says is the Electoral Commission’s (ECs) deceptive tactics in the Voter’s Register Saga. The group in a statement on Friday, January, 23, 2020 accused the EC of showing bad faith by going ahead to declare April 18, as the beginning of the compilation of the new register without recourse to a planned engagement of stakeholders at a meeting scheduled for 30th January. Following this, the group has said it has withdrawn its earlier announcement of the momentary suspension of the protests and will strike in the coming days with more street campaigns against the EC’s move. “In view of the conduct of the EC, the Resistance wishes to announce our inability to oblige with the earlier announcement of the momentary suspension of our public manifestations and further declare that, we shall proceed with the series of mass actions earlier outlined. We shall in due course announce the form, venue and dates for such actions to drum home further the need to speedily drop this dangerous and wasteful thought of compiling a new register.”

Source: GhanaWeb January 24, 2020 07:30 UTC