New citizens register commotion: NDC MP believes EC should show up before Parliament
Individual from Parliament for Banda and representative Minority Chief Whip, Ahmed Ibrahim, needs the Electoral Commission, EC, called to show up before the House over debate encompassing implied plans for another citizens register.
Parliament's Subsidiary Legislation Committee is presently dealing with a draft Constitutional Instrument, CI, on elector enrollment however the Minority recently said the CI contained plans to order another register for the 2024 vote.
Whiles making commitments on the floor of Parliament, Ahmed Ibrahim, said an instructions by the EC ideally one week from now could assist with forestalling discussion.
"Now that the Subsidiary Legislation Committee is doing what we call pre-laying… [maybe] the EC can show up before us one week from now before we conclude so that when it comes and briefs us as a board of the entire, then we compare the two information sources and have the option to perceive how we can figure out how to take care of these issues so that when the opportunity arrives, we wouldn't be stood up to for certain dubious issues," the Banda MP contended.
His view was gone against by Ranking Member of the Subsidiary Legislation Committee, O.B. Amoah who said with the advisory group's work having begun, there is no requirement for the EC to be welcomed.
"We have nearly finished the conversations. As to Ghana Card underwriters, we requested that the EC return and take a gander at it, so I don't think there is any need to drag them here as of now," Amoah said.
The Minority are worried about the aggregation of the register over cost suggestion and furthermore over the sole utilization of the Ghana Card as the base ID record.
Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu at a public interview this week put the expense at US$80 million however the EC has straight excused its desired report to order another register.
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