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New voter registration to start Tuesday, June 30?

The date for the start of the compilation of the controversial new voter register could be Tuesday, June 30, 2020. A letter sighted by 3news.com and signed by Deputy Chairman of the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) in charge of Corporate Affairs Dr Eric Bossman Asare to some political parties puts the date for the commencement of the exercise as such. ...

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Parliamentary Committee recommends adoption of new CI for elections

The Subsidiary Legislation Committee of Parliament has by a majority decision recommended for adoption the Public Elections (Amendment) Regulations, 2020 (CI 126) brought to the House by the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) through the Attorney General’s Department. Reading the Committee’s final report on the floor on Tuesday, June 9, Chairman Dominic Akuritinga Ayine admitted that a consensus was not reached ...

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Parliament votes 106-96 to approve controversial C.I 126

Parliament has voted to approve the controversial C.I 126 which gives legal backing to the Electoral Commission to compile a new voters’ register for the December polls. 106 members of the Majority side of the House voted in support of the C.I while 96 opposition MPs opposed it. Despite the seeming clearance from the legislative chamber, the EC will have ...

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Nobody is afraid of your jail threats – Sampson Ahi fires back at Atta Akyea

Deputy Minister of Works and Housing in the Mahama administration, Sampson Ahi says there was nothing untoward done in the execution of the agreement of the Saglemi Housing Project. According to him, everything was ongoing as planned until the Mahama-led government lost the elections. Mr Ahi’s claims come in the wake of pronouncements by the Minister of Works and Housing, ...

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Saglemi Housing ‘fraud’ details out

Details are emerging about how $200 million earmarked for the construction of 5,000 housing units by the Mahama-led National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration was started and could not be completed despite huge sums paid to the contractor. The deal was approved by Parliament but by the time it was being executed, the number of housing units had reduced drastically from ...

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New register: Consult stakeholders – Rawlings to EC

Former president JJ Rawlings has entreated the Electoral Commission (EC) to embark on an extensive consultation with all stakeholders ahead of the compilation of a new voter’s register. Speaking during the 41st anniversary of the June 4 uprising in Accra on Thursday, Mr. Rawlings said: “It is equally important for that revered institution, EC, to ensure that the processes leading ...

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Election 2020: Rawlings urges EC to use consultative approach

Former President Jerry John Rawlings on Thursday urged the Electoral Commission (EC) to use consultative approach that binds in stakeholders throughout the electoral process. He said the EC, the fulcrum of Ghana’s multiparty democracy, must be supported and protected by all stakeholders to ensure a free, fair and transparent election and a peaceful society. “That notwithstanding, it is equally important ...

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Anyidoho implores NDC leadership to instil discipline in the party

A former General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), has charged the leadership of his party to instil discipline among members. According to Koku Anyidoho, who has felt sidelined since his defeated at the party’s congress, there are some undisciplined young people in the NDC who think they have seen it all. “We too we saw things…I just ...

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