Some Voltarians are not the least enthused at the continuous attempt by the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) to get foreign nationals, especially Togolese and Ivorians, to register and vote in Ghana’s elections as witnessed in the just ended limited voters’ registration exercise.
In a statement, the pressure group, Volta4Change (V4C), noted that “sensing the nationwide unpopularity of their governance, which by all indices has been an absolute failure, John Dramani Mahama has resorted to any means, however despicable, to preserve his scandal-ridden incumbency.”
Apart from that, the statement which was signed by Eyram Doe and Abraham Futukpor, leading members of the group, said “due to its rapidly dwindling support within Ghana and especially within Volta Region, John Mahama has sought to co-opt Togolese nationals as part of his constituency base, bussing them into Ghana where necessary, even to the extent of constructing cross-border roads to facilitate this.”
According to them, these “incidents in the Volta Region have brought to light instances of police allegedly beating up a citizen (referring to the Volta Regional Chairman of the opposition NPP, Peter Amewu) who dared to try and challenge a police vehicle taking a registration machine into Togo.” They added that “the fact that the police is allegedly involved in corrupt electoral practices is bad enough.”
“That the police… brutally beat up a man who patriotically saw it as his duty to challenge such flagrant corruption and abuse of power is evidence that the NDC is prepared to utilise any means, however foul, immoral or corrupt, to achieve its objectives,” the group noted with concern, insisting that “in any civilised democracy, such a nefarious activity would be worthy of a public inquiry and prosecutions.”
Come Saturday, June 4, 2016, the Volta4Change group will march through the streets of Hohoe to highlight the need for change—“a change from the violence and corruption that is flourishing under John Dramani Mahama.”
“We will be marching to change the cloud of hopelessness engulfing the country and to preach the message of hope for a better day after John Mahama is kicked out of government,” was how the statement put it.
The march is expected to end with a free health screening for the people of Hohoe.
They have therefore asked Ghanaians to join them in this campaign exercise, noting, “the recent voter registration exercise was a first-class farce, a complete shambles from top to bottom” and describing it as a near top of the league lamentable litany of EC cock-ups.
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