SC explanation on register unnecessary-Innusah Fuseini
The Roads and Highways Minister, Innusah Fuseini says there is no need for the plaintiffs in the EC Supreme Court case to go back to the court for an explanation of the verdict on the need for the voter’s register to be cleaned.
Alhaji Inusah Fuseini said as far as he is concerned, the judgment is clear that names of persons who used National Health Insurance(NHIS) cards to register must be removed from the electoral roll.
The Supreme Court ruled in a case against the electoral commission in a case brought before it by PNC’s Abu Ramadan and NPP’s Evans Nimako for the EC to correct all errors occurring from the use of NHIS cards as verification during the voters’ registration exercise.
The Court on Thursday, May 5, 2016, ordered the Electoral Commission to take immediate steps to delete names of unqualified persons from the register and give them another opportunity to register using lawful means.
Meanwhile lawyer for the plaintiffs, Nana Asante Bedietuo on Saturday revealed that they may go back to the supreme court for an explanation to the verdict as to exactly what was expected of the EC.
However, Roads and Highways Minister, Inusah Fuseini thinks it is not necessary.
“The primary basic law says that every Ghanaian of sound mind can register; the subsidiary law sets out the criteria for determining who a Ghanaian citizen is; somehow when the register was compiled some people used the NHIA card as proof of citizenship to register. In an earlier decision of the Court, the Court said those cards cannot otherwise be used to prove the citizenship of Ghanaian to be on the register. That being so the names of people who used those cards to get onto the register ought to be deleted because the cards couldn't establish their citizenship," Mr. Fuseini explained on News File today.