[ 2016-07-21 ]

EC to submit list of deleted NHIS registrants to parties
The Electoral Commission has said it will furnish
various political parties with the full list of
persons whose names have been deleted from the
voters’ register because they registered using
the National Health Insurance cards as proof of
Ghanaian citizenship.

The EC’s move comes barely a day after the
opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) alleged that
the Commission deliberately removed the names of
some of its members from the electoral roll.

According to the party, a lot of its members have
complained about the removal of their names from
the roll, although they did not register with the
National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) card.

The Supreme Court on July 5, 2016, ordered the
Commission to delete names of NHIS registrants,
following a ruling in 2014, where the use of the
NHIS card was declared illegal for the purposes of
registering as a Ghanaian voter.

The court’s order followed a suit filed by
former National Youth Organizer of the People’s
National Convention (PNC), Abu Ramadan, and one
Evans Nimako.

Monitor registration process – EC to parties

The EC in a statement also asked political parties
to send agents to observe the re- registration
process in line with existing regulations. The
Commission deleted the names of some 56,772 who
registered with NHIS cards.

It subsequently announced that the names of
affected persons will be publicized, whiles they
would be given the chance to re-register using the
right procedure as the court ordered.

The exhibition and re-registration exercise thus
commenced concurrently non July 18, 2016.

Below are modalities for the re-registration of
the affected persons

#IPACDecisions: RE-REGISTRATION OF THE DELETED
NHIS CARD REGISTRANTS

At the Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC)
meeting held on Thursday July 12, 2016, the
Commission informed the parties that the names of
the 56,772 NHIS card registrants submitted to the
Supreme Court have been deleted from the Voters
Register database in compliance with the orders of
the Supreme Court. All parties unanimously
endorsed the Commission’s modalities for
re-registration of the NHIS card registrants in
compliance with the Court’s order. The agreed
modalities as follows:

1. EC to publish the list of all persons affected
by the Supreme Court deletion order in the Daily
Graphic before July 18, 2016.

2. EC to publish the names of the affected persons
at the offices of the district assemblies and the
Commission’s district offices.

3. EC to re-register all NHIS card registrants
affected by the deletion from 18th July to 28th
July 2016 at the district offices of the EC in the
area where they registered. (They will be required
to present their existing Voter ID card or show
proof of identity). Further, affected persons will
only be registered on providing proof of
citizenship, age and that they are of sound mind
in accordance with the requirements of the Law;

4. EC to ensure that the list of the NHIS card
registrants at the district offices of the EC have
pictures to ensure that only persons affected by
the judgment are given the opportunity to
re-register;

5. EC to provide the list of all deleted NHIS card
registrants to political parties;

6. EC to hold exhibition of the provisional
register for NHIS card holders who have
re-registered from 5th to 7th August 2016 at their
polling stations;

7. Political parties are entitled to send agents
to observe the re- registration process in line
with the Law;

The Commission has fully rolled out all the above
agreements since the start of the re-registration
exercise.

Signed:

Eric Kofi Dzakpasu
Head of Communications

Source - citifmonline.com

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