News:
October 28, 2022
The Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin has directed the Electoral Commission (EC) to brief the leadership of parliament on the new Constitutional Instrument (CI) it intends to present to the House. He warned the EC to consider the C.I dead if they fail to adhere to the directive.
“…I have not been given any brief by the EC on any proposed instrument coming from them. And so I raised this sometime ago, I’m yet to receive them to be briefed on them. Until that is done, they should forget about laying such Instruments in the House,” he said. The Electoral Commission is in the process of laying a C.I before the House to empower them to rely solely on the Ghana Card as prove of Nationality for its limited registration exercise.
But at the Business presentation on Friday, October 29, 2022 for the ensuing week, the Minority led by their Leader, Haruna Iddrisu demanded the EC and the National Identification Authority (NIA) be summoned before the House to explain and reconcile the discrepancies in the numbers between what the EC has registered as voters and what is on the data of the NIA.
According to Haruna Iddrisu, the EC wants to rely on data from the NIA, and wondered what has become of the EC’s own data that they are abandoning their own bio-data that they have collected and want to use that of the NIA.
Meanwhile, the Speaker urged the EC to engage not just the subsidiary legislation Committee of parliament as part of the pre-laying formalities but leadership of the House as well including his office.
Ghanamps.com