[ 2012-05-09 ]

Chairman of the Electoral Commission Dr. Kwadjo Afari Gyan

Go ahead and sue - EC calls prisoners' bluff
The Electoral Commission says prisoners have the
liberty to proceed to Court should the EC fail to
initiate steps to register them the end of the
week.

The prisoners, who were given the constitutional
right of suffrage for the first time in the
December presidential and parliamentary elections,
say they were excluded from the month-long
exercise because most of them had no national
identification cards – a basic requirement for the
novelty biometric exercise.

A legal practitioner Kojo Graham says the
Electoral Commission is to blame for the failure
of prisoners to register in the just ended
biometric exercise and will therefore proceed to
court, if by the end of the week the Commission
does not come up with a strategy to register the
prisoners.

In an interview with Citi News principal
spokesperson of the Electoral Commission Silvia
Annor said it is within Lawyer Kojo Graham’s
rights to go to court.

“We all have rights so going to court is fine but
if we do not understand something there is a need
to find out what challenges there are as well as
what can be done about it” she told Citi News

Source - Citifmonline

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