"The Electoral Commission NEED to Sit up" - John Mahama

Former President of the Republic of Ghana, john Mahama has called on the Electoral Commission to inject activeness in the ongoing Voters’ Register Exhibition exercise.

The exercise which started on September 10, 2019, and expected to end on Tuesday, September 17, 2019 has been given a three day extension due to low turnout in the various electoral centers of the registration. This means the exercise will close on September, 20, 2019.

The flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress addressing the media after checking his details in Bole in the Savannah Region disclosed that the challenges of the people must be a course of concern for the Electoral Commission.

“In some places there are complaints that for the new people who registered they are identified only by their new features, and I think that their other biometric features have not been captured yet and so the fear is that in future if we are holding an election that’s using the biometric registration devices they might not be able to vote because their biometric features will not be in the BVBs."

"That’s something the electoral commission must look at. Aside from that my party complained and other parties we have heard they don’t have the full complex of the register."

"They have parts of it, so it makes it difficult for them to monitor and follow the exhibition exercise. These are things that the electoral commission is enjoined to do and so they [EC) need to sit up,” he said.

The practice purposely is intended to allow prospective voters to verify if their details, such as names, sex and age are properly captured during the registration exercise and also make requests for amendments or insertions when necessary has recorded a lower participation at the various centers in the Kwabre East District.