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Minority leader questions EC's sincerity over new voters register

January 19, 2020 8:15 AM

The minority leader Haruna Iddrisu (NDC-MP) has questioned the sincerity of the Electoral Commission over the need for a new voters' register.

Minority leader Haruna Iddrisu

In an interview with Accra-based Joy FM, Mr Iddrisu questioned when the EC discovered that the nation will need a new voters' register for the 2020 parliamentary and presidential election.

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“Since when has it gone so bad that it cannot be used for the Presidential and Parliamentary elections in 2020 in Ghana."

The EC is pushing for a new register, citing obsolete Biometric Verification Devices and a report by IT consultants urging the commission to change the register.

On the report of the IT consultant, Mr Iddrisu said the EC has been requested to submit a copy of the report to parliament but they are yet to do so.

“We said ‘share with us your IT consultant’s report in order that we make an informed decision’ [but] she never availed that report even to the committee of Parliament as I speak,” he said.

Although parliament has approved the budget of the EC to compile a new voters' register, the minority noted that his size of the house did not participate in the decision making.