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NPP Seals Case on Voters’
Register with another Bombshell
The New Patriotic Party last week sealed the case
for a fresh voters’ register when it submitted to
the Electoral Commission additional evidence to back
its case on the flawed nature of the current
Register, which necessitates the compilation of a
new one.
The General Secretary who worked closely with the
Party’s IT team have unraveled the existence of
thousands of separate cases of double and multiple
registrations, by various persons across the
country, in the current register, making relevant
the need for a new voter register to replace the
current register.
In all, the Party submitted to the Electoral
Commission samples of 2,096 separate cases of double
and multiple registrations from all the 10 Regions
of Ghana. These separate cases can be grouped under
three main forms – the first involves the cases of
double and multiple registrations with multiple
photographs; the second involves double and multiple
registrations with multiple voter’s ID numbers and
the third involves same registration details and
photographs in different Polling Stations.
The pile of additional evidence was presented to the
Electoral Commission accompanied by a cover letter
signed by the General Secretary of the NPP, Kwabena
Agyei Agyepong detailing the extent of inaccuracies
within the current Register aside the evidence of
foreign voters and scanned pictures in the register
which the Party has already made a comprehensive
presentation to the Electoral Commission on.
The latest evidence presented to the Commission
calls into question the whole credibility of
biometric register and whether the EC actually
carried out de-duplication of the register as it
should have done and claims to have done since
de-duplicating a biometric register will
automatically eliminate all such double and multiple
registrations no matter the form in which they come.
The General Secretary suggested that if indeed the
EC conducted a de-duplication process on the
Register, then this revelation by the party is a
further indication of how the whole database of the
Electoral Commission and its IT set up have been
compromised to allow for such multiple entries as
they appear on the Register, similar to the case on
the scanned pictures in the Register".
It will be recalled that on Tuesday, August 18,
2015, the Party submitted to the EC and the Ghanaian
public unchallenged evidence of the existence of
over 76,000 Togolese nationals on the Ghanaian
register after a review of less than 10% of the
Registers of the two countries. Perhaps more damning
was the evidence of the existence of various scanned
pictures in the current Register, an issue the EC
has not been able to respond to as yet.
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NPP Seals Case on
Voters’ Register with another Bombshell
Release, September 28, Ghanadot - The New
Patriotic Party last week sealed the case for a
fresh voters’ register when it submitted to the
Electoral Commission additional evidence to back
its case on the flawed nature of the current
Register, which necessitates the compilation of
a new one.......More |
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Youth Employment Prospects
& The Educational System Of Ghana
PeaceFM, Sept 28, Ghanadot - Unemployment
remains a major development issue globally, and in
Ghana, the rates are quite high especially among
economically active population- the youth.. ..More
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As cobras and vipers spread
their deadly venom, it’s getting harder to save lives
Ghanadot, Sept 28, Ghanadot - It is estimated
that a resurgence of the scourge of snakebites in Africa
and Asia could soon account for a quarter of million
deaths every year. In the past, deaths from snakebites
have been poorly reported and the extent of the crisis
underestimated. However, doctors in India recently
carried out a detailed survey and discovered that around
46,000 people in the country died from snakebites every
year
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Nigerian leader
moving to plug theft loopholes
MiamiHerald, Sept 26, Ghanadot - Nigeria's
president is reaffirming his determination to fight
corruption in his oil-rich country, where he has
said the amount of money missing from state coffers
is a staggering $150 billion......More
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