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EC promises to meet June 29 deadline

Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Charlotte Osei
Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Charlotte Osei
The Supreme Court has ordered the EC to submit before it, the full list of persons who registered with the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) card as a form of identification, in six days.
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The Electoral Commission has said it will be able to meet the June 29 deadline given it by the Supreme Court to submit the full list of persons who registered with the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) card as a form of identification, in six days.

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The order follows a suit by the former youth organizer of the People’s National Convention Abu Ramadan for clarification of an earlier ruling by the court on May 5, 2016.

In that ruling the EC was asked to remove from the electoral roll, all those who used the NHIS card as proof of citizenship during the 2012 registration exercise.

However, the EC said it was not going to delete the names from the register based on its own interpretation of the May 5 ruling.

In the latest ruling asking the EC to bring a full list of NHIS registrants, many are beginning to doubt the ability of the EC to meet the six-day deadline, considering the amount of work involved in compiling the forms and data.

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But Head of Communications at the EC, Eric Kofi Dzakpasu has rubbished those claims.

He told Accra-based Citi FM that “The EC respects the ruling of the Supreme Court very much...We have been given clear-cut specific orders and we are going to make sure that come 29 of June at the Supreme Court we will meet with the learned judges and then to give them whatever they want from us.”

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