Former General Secretary of the Ghana Christian Council, Rev. Dr. Kwabena Opuni Frimpong has chided the governing NPP administration and the opposition National Democratic Congress for orchestrating problems at the Electoral Commission.
Citing the issues regarding the Voter’s register, Rev. Dr. Opuni Frimpong stated that the two most powerful political parties in the country were responsible for the anomalies within the register. He noted that they were guilty of practicing double registration, voting and registration of minors and yet would return to raise hell on the institution.
“My experience with this is that they can go do double registration, register minors, pursue double voting and then they come back to raise their voice against the very thing that they have done; NPP does that, NDC does that and then they put those who are managing the elections in trouble… They come and talk, shout… the register is not good but they know what they have done not to make the register good,” he explained.
Rev. Dr. Opuni Frimpong was responding to a question in relation to the former EC chairperson Charlotte Osei’s tenure when he took his turn on GhanaWeb’s 21 Minutes with KKB.
He admitted that although there were genuine challenges at the commission, the outgone chairperson ought to be lauded as managing both the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) was a daunting task.
Prior to the 2016 elections several concerned groups of Ghanaians called for the cleaning of the voter’s register citing the inclusions of dead citizens, non-Ghanaians as well as underage voters. They also raised concerns about the use of the National Health Insurance card to register for the voter’s card.
The exercise was eventually carried out after Ghana’s apex court, ordered the Electoral Commission to delete from the electoral roll names of all dead people and persons who used the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) card to register to vote.
Source: GNA
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I think Reverend Minister is trying to say something and for what I have deduced, is like he is afraid to say Charlotte Osei shouldn't have been removed but rather try to link it to NDC NPP.
i also disagree with the Reverend Minister. was the EC commissioners removal based on over voting and double voting etc? what about the accusations and proven issues in respect of procurement breaches?
Hmmmmm, Ghana. These so-called men of God are full time Politicians. They cannot and will never condemn their Party NPP when their party is wrong. All that they can say then is, NPP NDC when its clearly that NPP is at fault. And when they perceive the NDC to be wrong, by their "Measuring Scale" they quickly descend on NDC and cast all kinds of insinuations on NDC. God is always watching you and you will account for it.
You knew this all these while. Why did you allow it to degenerate so much before speaking about it? Lets stop the hypocrisy!
How can political parties instigate wrong doing in an organisation if that body has strong morally upright persons, they should try manipulating Presby, Catholic, ICGC etc
@appiah, you are not getting the drift. The Reverend Minister is right. NPP and NDC are always suspicious of each other. They know it. That is why NPP is against Charlotte Osei, NDC's appointee and NDC against Jean Mensa, NPP's appointee.
I disagree with Rev.Dr Opuni Frimpong. Was the accusation and counter accusation among the three top persons of the Electoral Commission orchestrated by the two political parties?. Please, come again.