The Electoral Commission of Ghana must inform Ghanaians about its preparedness for the 2020 general elections, Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu has said.
He told journalists on Thursday, 30 April 2020 that the election management body must also provide its roadmap for the elections amid the coronavirus pandemic.
“The Constitution requires that presidential and parliamentary elections be held this year, even as we struggle with COVID”, the Tamale South MP said, adding: “The independent Electoral Commission created under Article 45 of this Constitution owes this country and Members of Parliament an explanation”.
“They have to be summoned to give us their roadmap as to their preparedness”, he insisted.
The EC, he stressed, needs to “appraise this House on their level of preparedness for the 2020 presidential and parliamentary election”.
“If we cannot get them to brief the Committee of the whole, they have to come to the Special Budget Committee,” Mr Iddrisu noted.
The EC was supposed to have started its registration exercise for a new register of voters on 18 April 2020 but had to suspend it indefinitely as a result of the raging COVID-19 pandemic, which has, so far, killed 17 out of the 2,074 with 212 recoveries.
Last weekend, there was a controversy between the EC and opposition MP Sam Nartey George, who together with some supporters of the NDC, besieged an alleged workshop organised by the election body.
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How can EC come out with a roadmap without meeting its directors and management? Let's wait and see, NDC will accuse them again immediately they come out with a roadmap, that they are not aware of that roadmap.
ON ONE HAND NDC DON'T WANT EC TO WORK. THEY SENT SAM GEORGE TO LEAD NDC GANGSTERSSS TO OBSTRUCT AND DISRUPT THE MEETING OF EC MEANT TO OUTLINE AND PROVIDE ROAD MAP FOR 2020 ELECTIONS. ON THE OTHER HAND NDC MPs DEMAND A ROAD MAP FROM EC. NDE IS INCONSISTENT AND INCORRECT. THEY ARE BEHAVING LIKE A HUSBAND WHO REFUSES TO SLEEP WITH THE WIFE AND YET DEMANDS HER TO BECOME PREGNANT FOR HIM. NKWASEEEEASEM! CAN'T YOU THINK RIGHT? WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS? IT IS EITHER NDC MPs ARE DIABOLICC AND MISCHIEVIOUS OR JUST WANT TO DIVERT ATTENTION FROM THEIR EVILL DEEDS