The National Democratic Congress is still whining over the nationwide voters’ registration and the new move by the government to influence the Electoral Commission to register all SHS students across the length and breadth of the country.
In the view of the NDC, the NPP deliberately reopened school despite the ravaging Covid-19 pandemic to take advantage and engage the students in the registration process to favour their electoral fortunes, a move the NDC has described as illegal.
The NDC’s Director of Elections, Mr Elvis Afriyie Ankrah at a press briefing on Friday told reporters that the new development goes contrary to the law which mandates the Electoral Commission to gazette a designated polling centre for 21 days.
‘We (the NDC) remind the EC that according to C.I. 91 they are required to gazette a designated polling centre for 21 days. In the absence of that, any so-called registration centre, be it in a school or elsewhere is illegal,” Mr Afriyie Ankrah said.
Mr Ankrah also noted with grave concern that while parents are not even allowed to visit their wards in the school, EC officials, security personnel and party agents who are potential agents of the virus are allowed to move freely in all schools.
He further bemoaned the fact that despite the perpetual warning from health personnel about the dangers ahead in relation to the reopening, Nana Akufo Addo threw caution to the wind and reopened the schools, from the tertiary to basic levels, under the guise of all-final year students to complete their programmes and write their exit examinations when in actual sense, they only want to ‘manipulate’ the system and win power.
