Minority to petition Parliament on propose Constitutional Instrument

Barring any changes, the Minority in Parliament will block the Electoral Commission over propose registration of voters' Constitutional Instrument until all backlogs of Ghana Cards are cleared. At a press conference earlier today, Tuesday, November 1, 2022, in the House, the Leader of the Minority Group in Parliament, Honourable Haruna Iddrisu indicated to petition parliament over the Electoral Commission's attempt to lay an Instrument in parliament to make Ghana Card an illegible document for registration.

The Minority Group could not understand why the Electoral Commission would abandon its cards which were used for the December 2020 elections. Honorable Haruna Iddrisu said the petition will soon be advertised in his name and the Minority to Move a petition.

"We are concerned that we must preserve our democracy and to protect and preserve the fundamental human rights including the right to vote as enshrined in Article 42 of the 1992 constitution", he indicated. According to the Leader of the Minority Group in Parliament, everyone citizen has an unalienable right to vote and nothing should prevent that right. "It is given that, we the minority group are not prepared to relent until the right thing is done", he stressed.

He indicated his resolve to rally stakeholders to impress on the National Identification Authority(NIA) to issue all cards that have been held to enable the holders to exercise their franchise if the EC is bent on its decision. "We are convinced that the disparity and discrepancies in data of the National Identification Authority and the Electoral Commission may give cause to the enjoyment of fundamental human rights.

You see the EC has over 17 million and NIA has less than 17 million yet one says I want to rely on What has happened to EC's data, a data they spent over 80 million dollars or more to create?", he quizzed the CI passed.

Report by Prosper Kwaku Selassy Agbitor