Member of Parliament for Builsa South Constituency, Clement Abas Apaak has actually raised issues about what he viewed as the Electoral Commission’s (EC) departure from its mandated responsibilities. According to him, the EC has actually not followed the recommended treatments with regard to the continuous citizen registration procedure. He discussed that the EC’s duty, as stated by the nation’s laws, is to make sure that qualified residents who are 18 years and above and of sound mind have the ability to sign up at their own benefit. “They need to have the ability to sign up in a way that is not going to dehumanize them and call their self-respect in concern.” Dr Apaak stressed that all the problems surrounding the citizen registration are working versus the right of Ghanaian people and for that reason required it to be resolved. Speaking on JoyNews’ Newsfile on Saturday, he highlighted the particular obstacles dealt with in his own constituency and revealed his disappointment at being not able to mobilise the youth who ought to be signing up for the upcoming elections. The Builsa South MP asserted strongly that the Electoral Commission’s actions were not in accordance with the law. “The Electoral Commission is being illegal, truthfully due to the fact that if you take a look at the law, the C.I. the constitution, the required of the EC itself and the right to vote and the reality that a person is entitled to be signed up to vote, you juxtapose that with the EC’s posture and what we’re being informed, the EC is breaking the law, the EC is being lawless and in truth, the EC is acting contrarily to what the of the constitution planned it to do.” Dr Apaak kept that the EC’s actions brings a possibility that qualified citizens are going to be disfranchised due to the fact that of the variables “militating versus simple access to these rights.” He kept in mind that it is the task of the EC to sign up qualified citizens regardless of their number. “The EC appears to have a fondness for enforcing their understanding, their analysis and their point of view of what is a difficulty and what is not on we the individuals who have the constitutional required to delight in the. “You do not choose whether I must register this time to take part at the district level elections or wait to sign up in the future to take part in the nationwide election. That is not your choice to make. Your task is to make it possible for me to sign up,” he worried. The Builsa South MP included that it is not far too late for the EC to do the ideal thing and advised them to broaden the citizen registration by degenerating the registration centres from their district workplaces to other electoral locations. “If you are to do that, you will get rid of a number of these obstacles”. DISCLAIMER: The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not always represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.
Restricted Voter Registration: Electoral Commission is being illegal– Dr Apaak
