[ 2014-08-28 ]

Ghanaians In UK Protest Against EC
The streets of London in the United Kingdom will
be taken over at about 9:00 am on Friday by some
aggrieved Ghanaians who will be staging a massive
demonstration against the Electoral Commission of
Ghana to drum home their grievances regarding the
manner in which the Commission had handled the
voter registration exercise.

According to a group which calls itself Concerned
Ghanaians Against Electoral Fraud-UK (COGEF-UK)
– a pressure group that is to lead the protest
– the EC had woefully failed 'to take action to
ensure a clean voter register' towards election
2016 in Ghana.

'The EC has refused to allow either internal or
any independent audit of the 2012 register before
registering new people to be added into the
existing, questionable register, so as to assure
Ghanaians a credible elections in 2016,' says
COGEF-UK.

In view of this, the protesters will be presenting
a petition to the Ghana High Commissioner in the
UK, Victor Emmanuel Smith, requesting the EC to
allow the auditing of the voter register.

'We demand that the EC must allow the auditing of
the voter register, remove the 245,000 names of
Ghanaians fraudulently registered abroad and other
minors registered, before the recently registered
Ghanaians are added, so as to have a register
reflecting the actual number of Ghanaians on the
voter list,' they charged.

A petition will also be presented by the group to
the UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, to impress
upon the Electoral Commission to meet their
demands.

'After that, the group will lead Ghanaian
demonstrators to present a similar petition to the
Office of the UK Prime Minister, Mr David Cameron,
at No.10 Dawning Street, at approximately 12:30
pm.

'Ghanaians will commemorate this day, marking
exactly one year when the nine-member Supreme
Court justices delivered a miscarriage judgement
of the 2012 election petition presented to them by
three decent law abiding Ghanaians.

“We will commemorate this day with one voice and
shout to the hearing of the whole world that on
this day last year, the apex court in Ghana raped
and abused an anticipated memorable justice
delivery in Ghana,” COGEF-UK concluded.

Source - Daily Guide

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