The Electoral Commission (EC) has recently dismissed allegations that seven Biometric Verification Devices (BVDs) have been stolen from its stores.
Rather, it said, five laptops from the Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) kits have gone missing.
Samuel Tettey, Deputy Chairperson in charge of Operations, EC, said the stolen laptops contain no sensitive or valuable data and would not have any impact on the integrity of the upcoming elections adding that, “it does not serve any political agenda as insinuated.”
Responding to the allegations made by the Minority in Parliament at a press conference in Accra, he noted that, the Commission discovered the missing laptops during a routine servicing of its Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) kits.
The BVR kits, which comprise a laptop, camera, scanner, and printer, was different from the Commission’s Registration Data Systems and were incapable of manipulating election outcomes as opined by the Minority.
“These kits, though crucial for voter registration, require specific activation to function accordingly. Without such activation, they serve no purpose beyond their individual components as a laptop, camera, scanner, or printer. What this means is that, they are of no value beyond what they were manufactured to be.
The assembly for Nkwabeng, and a communication team member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Nkoranza South in the Bono East Region, Amoh Kwadwo Sims, has emphatically alleged that the Electoral Commission (EC) has lost its credibility of its service revealing to Ghanaians the lost of Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) creating anxieties.
The assembly member questioned the relevance of the machines at the Commission’s office if it claims they contained no data, reiterated that the NDC will reject its use when they (the machines) are found.
The Minority Caucus raised concerns about the stolen BVD and BVR machines on Tuesday, March 19, 2024, with the Minority Leader, Dr. Cassiel Ato Baah Forson, calling on the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service to promptly investigate the matter.
Expressing the fear of the loss of the kits on Fabea FM's "Me Man Ho Dadwen", in an inclusive interview said that the stolen biometric devices could have exigency repercussions on the upcoming December 7, 2024, general elections.
However, the assembly member bemoaned in an eerie of the loss of the kits where the electoral commission's office has been classified as national security zone, that the gadgets should have been secured.
In his conclusion, he alleged and opined that the EC and the NPP have been coherent to rig the 2024 general elections.
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