Ensure credible elections– Rawlings to EC
Jonas Danquah 
Ghana’s former President Jerry John Rawlings has urged the Electoral Commission to uphold the sanctity and integrity of the December 7, 2020 polls.
According to the former president, the EC can ensure credible elections by properly ‘cleaning’ up the electoral roll in cognizance to the recent reports of missing names.
He made the call when the delegation of Chiefs led by the Awadada of the Anlo State, Togbe Agbesi Awusu II came to mourn the demise of Madam Victoria Agbotui, mother of the former President and a Queen mother of the Anlo State on Thursday.
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Rawlings touched on the controversial deployment of the military to the border areas of the country.
He said notwithstanding the good intentions of government, the military deployment could have been done tactically without the passion it generated.
Former President Rawlings thanked the Chiefs and Elders of Anlo State for their support and wise counsel to bring his mother home for the final funeral rights.
“My grandmother and some uncles would have been buried in Keta but the landlessness or the erosion caused by the sea has claimed many homes and family graveyards”, he said.
He added that the essence of sending the mortal remains of elders of the land back home, is to deepen the values and spirituality of the traditional area and called for the protection of such cultural values.
