The Tema Metropolitan Office of the Electoral Commission says it is
processing for court about hundred (100) persons who allegedly engaged
in multiple voter registration.
Nana Oduro Numapau, Tema Metropolitan Electoral Director, disclosed this
when he was briefing Assembly Members of the Tema Metropolitan Assembly
(TMA) on the road map for the December 17, District Assembly, Unit
Committee and Referendum elections.
Nana Numapau stated that “about 100 of such cases is currently been
processed for court. When found guilty, the offenders could be fined”.
According to him, that was the only solution for the problem of
suspected multiple registration explaining that it was only the court
that could order the removal of names from the register after the
detection of multiple registration.
He noted that some of the culprits did not intentionally engage in
multiple registration but probably may have re-registered instead of
reporting the missing of a card forgetting that their information was
already in the system.
He therefore advised the public against such acts, but rather visit the
nearest office of the EC to report the loss of their cards and follow
the process of replacement.
The Tema EC Director indicated that a little over 8,000 and 5,000 were
registered in Tema Metropolis and Tema West Municipality respectively,
during the limited registration exercise.
He added that the just ended voters’ exhibition exercise saw about 22
per cent of registered voters participating in the exercise in the Tema
Metropolis and Tema West Municipality even after it was extended for one
week.
Touching on the District Assembly Elections, he said, nomination would
be opened very soon while filing of documents from aspirants would be
done on 8th and 9th October 2019 while October 10 – 11 would cater for
Unit Committee aspirants, according to the EC planned outline.
He added that there would be platform mounting by aspirants between
December 1 and 14th to interact with and answer questions from the
electorates.
He appealed to Assembly members and prospective ones to educate
residents on the need to participate in the elections reminding them
that at least 40 per cent of registered voters nationally must vote in
the referendum before a decision could be taken on the proposed election
of Metropolitans, Municipals and District Chief Executives.
All Assemblies in Ghana will be dissolved on Saturday, October 5, 2019.
