News:
June 6, 2014
National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Techiman South, Agyei Mensah has said he strongly supports the decision by the Electoral Commission (EC) not to carry out any audit of the current voters’ register.
According to the MP such an exercise will be needless and will be a waste of resources as the register is not bloated as is being claimed by the opposition parties.
They are demanding a comprehensive audit of the 2012 voters’ register in view of the fact that it was confirmed at the Supreme Court during the 2012 Election Petition Hearing that the credibility of the register had been affected by various anomalies.
However the EC has ruled out any audit of the current voters’ register but said if people can bring legitimate issues and provide the commission with evidence that the register is bloated, then the auditing can be done.
Contributing to a discussing on Oman FM’s, Hon. Agyei Mensah stated that the EC should not allow pressures from the opposition parties to affect the limited registration exercise slated for June 2014 which will allow Ghanaians who turned 18 after the 2012 general elections and adults who could not register in previous registration exercises to register.
“Cleaning of the voters register was done before the 2012 general elections took place and there has not been any names added to the register and so why the need for the auditing” he asked?
“I have heard the NPP say that the Election petition hearing at the Supreme Court made it clear that there is the need for auditing of the register, the NPP has no moral right to be using the hearing as the basis of their argument since the Court threw out their petition” he added.
Hon. Agyei Mensah he emphasized that the EC Chairman, Dr Kwadwo Afari Gyan works strictly according to the laws governing elections in Ghana and not pursuing the agenda of any particular political party as the NPP asserts.
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