Ghana: Electoral Commission tasks panel to hear arguments on the controversial Voters’ Register

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 The Electoral Commission took the decision due to the “petitions and calls [it had received] from some political parties, civil society groups and a number of Ghanaians for a new voters’ register.”

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By CITI-FM | 23rd October , 2015

The Electoral Commission has tasked a five-member panel to hold a two-day public hearing on calls for compilation of a new voters’ register.

According to the EC, it took the decision due to the “petitions and calls [it had received] from some political parties, civil society groups and a number of Ghanaians for a new voters’ register.”

The Panel is made up of:

• His Lordship Professor V.C.R.A.C. Crabbe, Co-Chair of the Coalition for Domestic Election Observers, (CODEO), former Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana, former Professor of Law, and former Electoral Commissioner of Ghana;
• Most Reverend Professor Emmanuel Asante, former Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church of Ghana and Chairman of the National Peace Council;
• Grace Bediako, a former Government Statistician and former member of the National Development Planning Commission;
• Nii Narku Quaynor, a renowned computer scientist, Chairman of the National Information Technology Agency (NITA) Board of Directors, and President of the Internet Society of Ghana; and
• Maulvi Bin Salih, Ameer of the Ahmadiyya Mission of Ghana.

A statement signed by the Ag. Director–Public Affairs of the EC, Christian Owusu-Parry said the hearings will take place on Thursday and Friday,  29th and 30th October, 2015 at Alisa Hotel, North Ridge, Accra from 10:00hrs to 13:00hrs and 14:00hrs to 17:00hrs daily.



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