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Press Release

Let My Vote Count

September 08, 2015

 

POLICE CAN’T STOP US PICKETTING ELECTORAL COMMISSION


Representatives of the Let My Vote Count and the various other pressure groups who plan together to picket the headquarters of the Electoral Commission on 16th September, met with the Police today.


The meeting was a follow-up to an earlier meeting with the Police on 3rd September, where a route was agreed for a public march from Obra Spot, Circle, directly to the EC, for us to present our petition and picket the Commission on the need to have a new Voters’ register in time for the 2016 General Elections.


To our dismay, at today’s meeting the Police made a complete u-turn, obviously due to orders from ‘above’, that they will not allow us to picket the Electoral Commission because it is a “security zone”.
We wish to serve public notice to the Police and government, which we know is behind this arbitrary move to frustrate our constitutional right to picket the EC, that we shall march to the EC and picket the EC as intended on 16th September, 2015.


As far as we are concerned, the EC is not a security zone, like a place to manufacture weapons of mass destruction or for keeping sensitive national security materials. It is a body setup to conduct public elections in Ghana, and therefore answerable to the people of the public.


We wish to tell all the groups and individuals who are joining this picketing, that it is on as planned. We will gather at Obra Spot and move on peacefully to the EC.

...Signed...
David Asante
(Convener)
0268220220

 

 

 

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