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The Electoral Commission (EC) has said it will outline how it plans to delete the names of the 56,000 voters whose names were captured on the voters’ register using the National Health Insurance card as proof of Ghanaian citizenship.

A statement signed by Georgina Opoku Amankwaa, Deputy Chairperson at the EC, said “the commission is taking the appropriate steps to comply with the court’s directives and would make same public in the coming week.” There have been calls from a section of Ghanaians, including the Institute of Democratic Governance (IDEG) and the Civic Forum Initiative for the EC to declare steps it is taking to delete the 56,000 voters.

The statement also said the plan will state modalities for the exhibition of the 2016 provisional voters’ register, which is scheduled to start on July 18, 2016 in all polling/exhibition centres across the country.

The Supreme Court on July 4, 2016 ordered the EC to delete the 56,000 names of NHI card voters that was presented to it.

The order was made after an application filed before the Supreme Court by former National Youth Organiser of the People’s National Convention (PNC), Abu Ramadan, and one Evans Nimako, who were challenging the eligibility of the register.