[ 2012-07-20 ]

EC sued again
Four persons have dragged the Electoral Commission
(EC) and the Attorney-General to the Fast Track
High Court over the creation of new district
assemblies and constituencies.

The four are claiming that the EC failed to adhere
to legal processes before creating the said
districts and constituencies and, for that reason,
its actions were illegal.

According to the four, the respondents also failed
to consider issues of fairness during the
demarcation of districts for the creation of the
new constituencies.

Atta Dwomoh, Abdul-Rahman Abubakar, Magarett
Senkyire and Wilford Quarcoo, who describe
themselves as Concerned Citizens of Ghana (CCG),
are praying the court to declare the newly created
metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies
(MMDAs) and constituencies, null and void.

They have consequently filed an interlocutory
injunction praying the Fast Track High Court to
restrain the EC from going ahead to create new
constituencies out of the newly created
districts.

The application for interlocutory injunction,
which was filed on behalf of the four by their
lawyer, Mr Frank Davies, could not be moved at the
Fast Track High Court sitting in Accra today
because the presiding judge was indisposed.

It is expected to be moved on July 25, 2012.

According to the applicants, the creation of the
new districts was in contravention of the
provisions of the local government Act 1993, Act
462 and must, therefore, not be entertained by the
court.

They argued that unless restrained by the court,
the respondents would go ahead to create the new
constituencies which, according to them, would
cause many voters to suffer irreparable loss.

Source - Daily Graphic

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