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By June 29, the Electoral Commission (EC) is expected to furnish the Supreme Court (SC) with a “comprehensive" list of all persons who registered with the NHIS cards.

The directive from the court is to put an end to the controversy surrounding its May 5 judgment on the deletion of names of persons who have not established qualification to be on the voters' register.

It has also ordered the EC to submit in writing how it is going to delete the names of those who registered with NHIS cards, minors and deceased on the voters register.

But deputy General Secretary for the National Democratic Congress finds the unfolding event interesting and has questioned the Supreme Court judges to tell Ghanaians what they would use the ‘comprehensive’ list for should the EC furnish them with it.

Mr. Koku Anyidoho in an interview with Kwame Nkrumah Tikese on Okay FM wondered what the SC would like to use the new list they have tasked the EC to compile for.

He stated that “if they (EC) bring out the list out today what would the SC do with it? Is it possible that the SC would now tell the EC how to go about its work?...This whole NHIS thing is very interesting.”

Georgina Wood, chairing a panel of five Supreme Court Judges warned the EC that they (SC) will not sit and watch it distabilise the country.  

But an exasperated Anyidoho sarcastically stated that it would be better for the SC judges to take over the work of the EC if they were not satisfied with the work of the electoral body.    

“The SC must take over the work of the EC so that Charlotte Osei and Amadu Sulley would find a better place to sleep.

If the SC think they are law unto themselves, then Georgina Wood and the other judges should run the elections and should anything happen, we would hold them responsible”, he said.

On May 5, the Supreme Court asked the Electoral Commission to expunge from the current voters’ register the names of all persons who registered and voted in the 2012 elections, with the NHIS card as a proof of identity.

The ruling followed a suit filed by Abu Ramadan, and one, Evans Nimako, who in 2014 won a lawsuit that barred the use of NHIS cards for registration.