The government has been charged to use the GH¢700 million it is planning to use for the compilation of new voters register to complete roads, hospital and school projects abandoned by the ruling NPP.
The Volta Regional National Democratic Congress (NDC), which made the call warned that it is ready to massively demonstrate against the compilation of the new register if the Electoral Commission (EC) fails to listen to reason from Ghanaians.
According to the party, the colossal amount earmarked for this venture should be used to complete many of the projects that the government has abandoned.
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Chairman of the Volta NDC Communication Team and MP for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, observed that the compilation of the new voters’ register is targeted at people in the Volta Region and therefore they would resist it.
The MP who was addressing a press conference in Ho referred to claims of Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia in the run-up to the 2016 elections when he claimed foreigners from Togo are on the register.
He said, “Dr Bawumia claimed analysis done on the 2012 voters’ register revealed some 7,500 people have been found on the register that are foreigners and are supposed to be voting in Volta Region.”
“So we know this is targeted at people in the Volta Region since they claimed there are some foreigners voting in the Volta Region.”
Mr. Ablakwa cautioned that the targeting of the Volta Region was inimical to national cohesion and national progress.
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“This must stop because we are not the only border region in Ghana and the deliberate targeting of the region must stop,” he stated.
The existing voter register, he argued, was used in the just ended District Assembly elections and the referenda in the creation of new regions, which were all declared successful so there was no need for a new register.
He averred that the facial technology that appears to be the basis for the EC decision to compile a new register is only 80 percent effective.
This, he said, makes it less effective compared to the verification technology being used currently.
