The National Democratic Congress (NDC), has accused the Electoral Commission (EC) of rejecting its request to conduct a forensic audit of the voter register.
The Director of Elections for the party, Dr Edward Omane Boamah, who spoke to press men after the Inter-Party Advisory Committee on September 6, mentioned that the EC appears unwilling to open its books to scrutiny by stakeholders.
“They have not accepted the independent forensic audit expectedly,” he stated.
“It is not all doctors who readily refer, it is not all workers who readily when issues are above them refer, some of them wait until bridges collapse. Some of them wait until patients are on the verge of dying before they push them. We would have loved that the Electoral Commission accepted this,” he added.
Dr Boamah noted that a forensic audit into the register which is frought with anomalies would reassure Ghanaians of the EC’s ability to conduct free and fair elections.
These concerns comes days after the EC ended it’s voter exhibition exercise.
The Minority in Parliament has similarly raised issues about the voter register exhibition exercise.
The opposition lawmakers alleged that the register had been tampered with.
The voter register,they indicated, is riddled with irregularities and flaws, which the Electoral Commission (EC) has already admitted.
Source: Myxyzonline.com
