General Secretary of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Johnson Asiedu Nketia claims it takes almost 10minutes for just one person to fully complete the process of acquiring a card under the new voters registration exercise currently being piloted by the Electoral Commission (EC).
This clearly indicates, he asserts, that if on the average 500 people are supposed to be registered at a centre in a day, it will be highly improbable for the electoral body to meet its 6 days target of registering all eligible persons in order to conclude the exercise.
“As we are hearing that it can take 10 minutes for the EC officials to register one person at a particular centre, if you are not there to take this evidence, you will not know. If every centre, they are supposed to register averagely 500 a day, then in 6 days that will be 3,000. And if they use 10 minutes to register one person, mathematically, the measures put in place by the EC is wrong”, he claimed.
Mr Asiedu Nketiah, who admitted sanctioning his party's decision to partake in the Electoral Commission’s (EC’s) nationwide pilot registration exercise, revealed he did so to find faults in the exercise which will help buttress their stance against the EC's position.
Speaking on Okay FM’s Ade Akye Abia Morning Show, Johnson Asiedu Nketia said their participation in the pilot registration exercise does not mean the opposition agrees that a new voters register should be compiled.
“If someone sits somewhere to say that NDC is taking part in the pilot registration exercise and for that matter we have agreed that the registration should take place, then the person does not understand elections and registration process.
“Yes, I gave the directive that they should take part in the pilot registration exercise. The reason is that, they are testing the exercise and so if we don’t participate, how can we report on the glitches? This is not the actual registration; the EC says it is testing and if it is brand new machines or old machines, if you are not there, how will you know this information about the machines used for the exercise and pass comment about it?”
“...we want to find out whether the machines will work or not and that will inform our decision as to whether the machines are effective or not”, he stressed.
According to him, the NDC wants to build up a solid case against the EC's decision to compile a new voters register and the best way to go about that was to partake in the exercise and gather evidence NDC to solidify their case.
“All of us must be a witness to it so that if the pilot exercise flops then based on it, we can confidently say the EC's will not work. But if fail to participate and the EC comes out to say that everything was successful, how can you then debunk or discredit that?”
“So, I gave the directive that everybody should participate in the pilot exercise to note the errors...and so far, the reports we are receiving confirm what we have been saying all along and we will exhibit evidence to buttress our point”, he indicated.
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@Kai Mansah Bam Bam Bam. True talk. The NDC always know the truth but will never tell it. They will go to tell this to their illiterate members who will also carry it around.
The NDC told us they 'll never allow the EC to do the registration. Meanwhile they have trained their party members underground to be an observers. During this piloting there was nowhere you can't find NDC supporters there as party observers. They are only trying to execute the Ofosu Ampofo's strategy to make things difficult and make Ghana ungovernable . Is these people good alternative to rule this country? If not the NDC Ghana should be standstill. Meanwhile they are the worse managers of our economy and governance as whole. Only to come and siphon the national purse to enrich themselves.
Alseidu is a totally confused man. If it takes 10 minutes for one person to go through the process does it mean that all the stages of the process will be idle for one person to go through before the next person starts the process? It is difficult to have people like this to deal with. Common sense should let you know that once people are in a queue what you have is like the production line situation and one keeps moving from one stage of the process to the next whiles the persons after him come along the process. So if there are 5 stages then per the 10 minutes proposition, which may not even be true knowing NDC, a person may spend and average of 2 minutes at each stage. This simple means that all things being equal one person can finish the process every 2 minutes irrespective of the fact that for a particular person the entire process may last 10 minutes. Can you imagine a factory without this common sense production line approach and having to wait for the machines to finish producing one tin of milk before it is put on again to start the production of the next one. Lack of commonsense is a problem. And this is the person is the general secretary of a party?
... Why NDC keeps allowing men such as this to continue to reduce them to jokers is beyond me. Opayin nie fie
Quotes "Mr Asiedu Nketiah, who admitted sanctioning his party's decision to partake in the Electoral Commission’s (EC’s) nationwide pilot registration exercise, revealed he did so to find faults in the exercise which will help buttress their stance against the EC's position" For Ndc is about finding faults and praying for Ghana to fail........Ndc are witches and wizards lead by Asiedu Nketia and midwifed by John Mahama, their are dreaming that Ghana doesn't work just that their can come back to power.....Which normal human being pray for his country to fail for him/her to come back to power if the person is not either a witch or wizard ?????
Go to IPAC and discuss your observations and opinions. Stop wasting out ears. 10min is normal and it is an improvement.
I thought my good friend was going to say the system does not work. An average of 10 minutes is not bad at all for a new system under trial. As operators get used to it, they should be able to reduce to 7 minutes and that will be fine. Thanks GS for testing the system.