The Electoral Commission(EC) has discounted claims that the panel for the impending forum for tomorrow regarding the voters register is biased.
The EC insists the list of 5 tasked by it to coordinate the event are all eminent people with proven track records.
The panel include His Lordship Professor V.C.R.A.C. Crabbe, Co-Chair of the Coalition for Domestic Election Observers, (CODEO), former Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana, former Professor of Law, and former Electoral Commissioner of Ghana;Most Reverend Professor Emmanuel Asante, former Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church of Ghana and Chairman of the National Peace Council; Dr Grace Bediako, a former Government Statistician and former member of the National Development Planning Commission.
Others are Dr. Nii Narku Quaynor, a renowned computer scientist, Chairman of the National Information Technology Agency (NITA) Board of Directors, and President of the Internet Society of Ghana; and Maulvi Bin Salih, Ameer of the Ahmadiyya Mission of Ghana.
The Director of Public Relations at the EC, Christian Owusu Parry, in an interview with Accra-based Citi FM, said the EC believes “the panel will do their work with integrity and all fairness.”
Meanwhile the New Patriotic Party(NPP) has soften its stance on the composition of the EC panel, that earlier sought to tag some key personalities on it as biased and sympathetic to the ruling National Democratic Congress( NDC).
Martin Korsah, Director of Elections of the NPP has assured that the party would make a representation at the forum to make a case for a new voters’ register.
“We had never decided that we were not going to go even though we raised concerns, but it was never to suggest that we were not going to the platform. We are going to be fully represented”
By: Kasapafmonline.com/Ghana
