There Is Nothing Wrong With ECs Timelines For The Compilation of a New Register – John Boadu
General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party(NPP), John Boadu, has explained that there is nothing wrong with the ECs timeline with respect to the compilation of the voters' register.
According to him, the NDC and the Inter-Party Group seem to confuse Ghanaians about the timelines with respect to CI 94.
Speaking on Okay FM’s 'Ade Akye Abia' programme, he clarified that the political parties need 21 working days, not 30 days as it is being stipulated by the NDC and its group.
"The CI 94 states that within 21 days after the voters register has been handed over to us, we are supposed to file our various candidates for the elections, moreover as serious political party, you should have gathered all you will need to file your candidates."
"So the argument held by the NDC and the other political parties that the time for the filing and others will contravene the CI 94 does not hold," he added.
However, the Inter-Party Resistance Against Compilation of New Voters Register says the Electoral Commission(EC) is going to waste over 800 million Ghana Cedis of taxpayer's money on the compilation of a new voters' register.
According to them, this renders the EC's argument of saving the country money with the compilation of the new voters' register false.
Addressing the press at a briefing on Monday on why the EC does not need a new voters register, IT Director of the National Democratic Congress, Mr. Osei Kwame Griffiths explained that all explanations by the EC with respect to the BVR are false.
"If you think the BVRs are obsolete and cannot function properly for the 2020 general elections, why don’t you swap them for new ones when the manufacturer is even ready to do so," he rhetorically asked.
"It will also interest you to note that the EC has even spent a total of $333,500 to train its workers on the so-called obsolete machines," he added.
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