Registration officials of the Electoral Commission are demanding immediate payment of their allowance for work done during the recent voters’ registration exercise. According to the officers, after conducting the tiring registration exercise for over a month, the electoral management body is yet to inform them when exactly they will be …
Read More »NPP supporter shot during voter registration exercise at Nkrankwanta laid to rest
The mortal remains of a member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kofi Stephen aka Kofi Labet, was laid to rest on Saturday, August 29, 2020, at Nkrankwanta in the Dormaa West Constituency. The deceased who met his untimely demise at the Dormaa West office of the Electoral Commission (EC) was laid …
Read More »Asokore Mampong: Man with 355 voters ID card duplicates arrested
Police at Asokore Mampong in the Ashanti Region have arrested a 36-year old man who had in his possession 355 duplicates of the new Voters’ ID Cards and 17 National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) Cards. The suspect, John Amoah, told police that he was taking contact details of residents at …
Read More »Another protest hits EC as Registration Supervisors cry over payment
Supervisors and Deputy Supervisors of the ongoing nationwide voters registration exercise are aggrieved over some treatments being meted out to them by the Electoral Commission (EC) as regards payment for their services. According to the Supervisors who are being engaged for three months, the EC has been unfair in respect …
Read More »Voter’s register: Seven Asanteman SHS students arrested in queue at Asawase
Seven out of twenty-one final year students of Asanteman Senior High school allegedly bused by a tutor Bismark Okyere to register in the Asawase Constituency have been arrested. One student was first arrested when he was spotted in a queue attempting to register. The student upon sensing danger …
Read More »Keep the old voters register as a standby – EC advised
The founder and leader of the United Front Party (UFP) Dr. Nana Agyenim Boateng has advised the Electoral Commission (EC) not to do away with the old voters’ register as he states that the ongoing exercise for the registration of the new register is flawed. In an interview with Kwame Afrifa …
Read More »Eighty-four-year-old gets her Voters ID card in record time
As the Electoral Commission Tuesday started the compilation of a new voters’ register for the 2020 General Election applicants were determined to be early birds, leading to long queues being formed at many registration centres ahead of the official start at 0700 hours. They included 84-year-old Madam Victoria Akutey, a resident of …
Read More »Akufo-Addo speaks on voters’ registration exercise today
The President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will today speak to issues surrounding the new voters’ register Since the Electoral Commission announced its intentions to compile a new voters register, the opposition NDC and other political parties have kicked against it and have organised several demonstrations and press …
Read More »Over 500,000 fake voter ID cards in circulation – Let My Vote Count Alliance
Pressure group, Let My Vote Count Alliance, is claiming over 500,000 fake voter identification cards are in circulation in Ghana. This, according to Convener of the group, David Asante, is based on research they conducted in March 2020. Speaking on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen programme Tuesday, he said this was …
Read More »We will compile new register, nobody can control us – EC
The Electoral Commission has stated that it will go ahead and compile a new voters’ register for the upcoming polls adding that no individual or authority can direct or control them. In a terse statement, the EC said “as stated Article 46 of the 1992 Constitution, the EC would like …
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