Central Regional Minister, Kwamena Duncan has asked the National Democratic Congress to send their grievances about the Electoral Commission (EC) to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, popularly called NATO.
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has vehemently registered their displeasure with the posture of the Electoral Commission on the compilation of a new voters' register.
The party leadership and members have dragged the Commission to the Supreme Court to seek clarifications whether or not the Commission is acting according to their constitutional mandate and also for the court to direct the EC to include the old Voter's ID card.
The NDC is also said to have petitioned the United Nations and ECOWAS about the conduct of the electoral management body as they accuse the Commission of planning to rig the 2020 elections for President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and the governing New Patriotic Party.
Addressing the issue on Peace FM's Wednesday edition of ''Kokrokoo'', Kwamena Duncan held that the NDC petitioning the UN and ECOWAS will not change anything, particularly when Parliament has approved the EC's Constitutional Instrument (C.I) 126.
Peace FM's Parliamentary correspondent, Emmanuel Akorli, noted that Parliament, by a majority decision, approved the report of the Committee on Subsidiary Legislation on the Public Elections (Registration of Voters) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (C. I 126) to allow the Instrument to come into force after 21 sitting days of Parliament which matured on Wednesday, 10th June 2020, following the laying of the C.I 126 before Parliament on 31st March 2020.
Ninety-two (92) members voted against the adoption of the committee's report while 106 members of the Majority side of the House voted in support of the C.I.
''It gives legal backing to the plans by the EC to compile a new registration of voters. By C.I 126, the Electoral Commission is excluding or prohibiting the use of a driver's license or the existing voter identification card as evidence of identity in the registration of a voter as contained in the existing Constitutional Instrument ( C.I 91 ) and allow the use of Ghana Card issued by the NIA and passport for registration as a voter''.
In view of this, Kwamena Duncan ridiculed the NDC's petition before the UN and ECOWAS asking ''have they sent some to NATO?''
''They should sent some to NATO...I'm not surprised that they have gone as far as to the United Nations. That's all good but eventually, it is the law. If you go to the United Nations, if you go to the moon...wherever you go, it's all the law. And the United Nations is not only in America, they have their representatives here. All the embassies are following proceedings in the country. Likely, for us, all the representatives that they have written those copious letters to them attend all the meetings, they know what is going on. So, it's not going to the United Nations that will prove anything, it is the law. Abide by the law. You're not above the law'', he emphasized.
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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Fante comedian at his best. Honourable minister indeed!
HAVE YOU REALIZED WHY NOT MANY COMMENTS ARE WRITTEN ON THIS?. WE ARE ALL WAITING TO KICK NANA OUT SO BE THERE AND THINK DIFFERENT.
DORMAA CHIEF IS MAD. HE IS CRAZY OVER VOTERS REGISTRATION. TWO DAYS AGO A CERTAIN APOSTLE OWUSU ADJEI SMOKE WEE AND GOT OUT OF CONTROL TO MAKE THREATS AND INSULTS AGAINST SOME PROMINENT STATE PERSONALITIES. NOBODY CAN ACTUALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT TRIGGERED THE ***barred word*** OF THE DORMAA CHIEF, FOR HIM AMONG ALL THE CHIEFS IN GHANA, TO REACT IN THAT MANNER. HE SEEMED NOT TO BE AWARE THAT HE HAS JUST ONE VOTE LIKE ANY GHANAIAN AND HE CANNOT EVEN COMPEL HIS WIFE TO VOTE THE WAY HE WOULD LIKE. HE MIGHT BE INCENSED BY TOGBE AFEDZI INVITATION TO EC. DORMAA CHIEF AND TOGBE AFEDZE MUST BE REALISTIC TO KNOW THAT EC IS WORKING SO HARD TO MAKE UP THE DELAY CAUSED BY COVID-19. SO THE EC DOES NOT HAVE THE PLEASURE OF TIME FOR PLEASANTRIES. THE CHALLENGES OF EC IS COMPOUNDED WITH COURT CASES AND SO EVERYBODY AT EC IS OVERWORKING. MANY GHANAIANS TODAY ARE NOT AMUSED BY THE ATTITUDE OF CHIEFS LIKE TOGBE AFEDZI AND HIS LIKE. THE THEATRICAL SHOW OF AUTHORITY BY DOMAA CHIEF IS VERY SHAMEFUL, THOUGH NOT NEW TO ANYONE IN GHANA. HE IN NOTED FOR HIS ERRATIC STATEMENTS AND HIS INCONSISTENT EMOTIONAL APTITUDE. DORMAA CHIEF MUST KNOW THAT HE IS CHIEF OVER AN AREA DIFFERENT FROM TOGBE AFEDZI WHO IF CHIEF OVER PEOPLE OF ONE POLITICAL PARTY. DORMAA CHIEF HAS CUSTODY OVER AN AREA WHICH CONSIST OF DIFFERENT POLITICAL PARTIES AND THAT ANY MISUSE OF HIS TRADITIONAL ROLE CAN EASILY INCUR THE ROUGH OF MANY OF HIS OWN PEOPLE. AS MAGISTRATE BY PROFESSION HE IS EXPECTED TO KNOW BETTER THAT THE WORK AND FUNCTIONS OF EC ARE DEFINED BY LAW AND THAT EC CANNOT OVERTURN ANYTHING DECIDED BY THE CONSTITUTION, THE PARLIAMENT NOR THE SUPREME COURT. I WISH OUR ELDERS LIKE HIM WOULD LEAD BY EXAMPLE TO RESPECT AND SUPPORT THE RULE OF LAW. THE PREVIOUS OFFICIALS OF EC LOST MANY CASES AT THE SUPREME COURT BECAUSE THEY ACT WRONGLY. THAT IS INCOMPETENCE. GHANAIANS DO NOT EXPECT THE CURRENT EC TO BE INCOMPETENT.
I have never admired this theatric concert man - not even for once since I heard him on Kokrokoo program. It is not I alone who hears him sing his irritating Asafo songs at Peacefm. Listen to that full - lish* remarks. You think your party will stay in power forever.
Oh my God is dis thing too a minister of state who is paid with tax payers money?aaarrrrrr nkwaseafo 3did3 look at dis f000000lllll oh God we are in ur hands
power arogance, look at the academic dishonest teachers singer turned minister, you think if the heat is on your police guide will stay with you. let wait and see
Ok. We live to see. I hope when the whistle is blown you can run with those legs.