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An Associate Professor of Political Science, Prof Ransford Gyampo has commended the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Madam Jean Mensa for carrying out a meticulous and transparent voters’ registration exercise in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to the Director of the Centre for European Studies of the University of Ghana, inasmuch as he was against the compilation of a new voters’ register, he cannot turn a blind eye on the fact that the EC boss has been successful in delivering her promise to compile a new voters’ register.

Speaking on Okay FM’s 'Ade Akye Abia' Morning Show, Prof Gyampo says working with Madam Jean Mensa for 14 years at the Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA), he had no doubt that the registration exercise was going to come out refined as he knows how she operates and very persistent with her desire to accomplish a task.

“I have worked with Madam Jean Mensa for 14 years and I know how she operates and so even though I was not in support of the new voter register when she said she was going to do it, I knew she was going to do it by all means and do it perfectly. To be honest, if something is nice, it is indeed nice to acknowledge and if it is not nice too, we have to say it,” he extolled.

“If I am commending her for the exercise done, I will say that whether we like the new voters’ register or not, she has done it so nicely apart from some challenges, the processes have been successful. We thought that people were not going to show up, but she did it and people showed up,” he stressed.

He reiterated that Jean Mensa made the electoral processes transparent to the extent that she was weekly filing reports on the registration as she meticulously sent the number of registrants and segregated the processes in terms of the number of people have been challenged and the number of women who have been registered in the exercise.

“If you look at the weekly reporting on the registration exercise, transparency in the exercise by sending information to authorities weekly on the registration processes. She will send the number of registrants and how she has segregated in terms of the number of people who have filled the challenging forms, the number of women registered,” he said.

“She made sure that everything was transparent. She was and still my boss and I commend her for the good job done in the registration exercise,” he praised the EC Boss.