No �Jericho� Wall Built Around Legon; Students Could've Registered Outside Campus!
The call for the extension of the limited registration by some student bodies and the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has been heavily criticised by the National Organiser of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kofi Adams.
According to him, it is wrong for anybody to draw conclusion that some students of University of Ghana will be disenfranchised due to their inability to participate in the just-ended limited registration exercise as there was no ‘Jericho wall’ built around the Legon Campus to prevent students from going outside campus to register at different registration centres.
“We cannot use emotion to convince EC to please some people who could not achieve their personal target…surely, as for registration, not all can be captured and that explains why it was not only those who have turned 18 and 19 years were captured”, he asserted.
He emphasised that “there are so many students who didn’t want to register and so it will be wrong for anybody to do analysis that over 2, 000 students who are willing have not been captured; such analysis is done by someone who is uninformed about registration and movement of people”.
Speaking on Okay FM’s Ade Akye Abia Morning Show, Kofi Adams jabbed those calling for extension of the limited registration that “when we were doing the registration within the 10 days, we didn’t build any wall; no Jericho wall around Legon Campus that we won’t allow anybody to go out but remain on campus to write their names”.
He however alleged that some of the Legon students were still moving in and out of the campus, and further claimed that he met some of them at La-Dadekotopon and Kpone engaged in the limited registration exercise; defeating the argument that a lot of the students could not register at Legon Campus.
He expressed the view that since the expectation of the Electoral Commission (EC) to register over 1.1 million has been realised, by the creation of some 6,000 registration centres across the country, there is no need to extend the period of registration.
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