Sam George Gets Injunction To Stop EC From Holding Voter Registration Workshop At Prampram

The Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram, Sam Nartey George has secured an interim injunction to stop the Electoral Commission from organising a voter registration training workshop at his constituency.

“It is hereby ordered that the respondent and all persons claiming through the respondent refrain from holding the workshop or conference scheduled to take place at the Escape Hotel Prampram from the 24th of April 2020. The order is effective from the 24th of April 2020 to 27th of April 2020,” the directive which was captured in a document sighted by citinewsroom.com stated.

The EC was planning to hold a national planning meeting and key trainers training workshop to prepare and plan for the upcoming registration exercise.

The programmes were scheduled to take place from 24th to 29th April 2020 at the City Escape Hotel, Prampram, in the Greater Accra Region.

The EC in a memo asked all Regional Directors to submit their regional reports on the 2019 District Level Elections (DLE) as part of the requirements for the programme.

“The meeting will be attended by Commissioners, HQ Directors, Regional Directors, Deputy Regional Directors, Deputy HQ Directors, and some HQ senior officers. Participants will arrive a day before the meeting and leave a day after,” portions of a memo signed by the EC's Director of Training, Michael Boadu said.

The statement further said that the meeting will be held in three different batches in order to observe the social distancing protocols amidst the outbreak of the coronavirus in Ghana.

“Due to the state’s directive on social gathering, the meeting will be conducted in three batches of 25 participants per batch and each batch will have two different meeting days,” the EC said in the statement.

Unhappy over the exercise, the Ningo Prampram legislator run to court to seek for an order to restrain the commission from holding the exercise.

The injunction which takes immediate effect will last from today, 24th to 27th April 2020.

Suspension of new register compilation

The Electoral Commission was forced to suspend indefinitely plans to compile a new voters register which was scheduled to begin on April 18, due to COVID-19.

The EC had said it is collaborating with health experts to decide on a more favourable date depending on the prevalence rate of the novel Coronavirus.

---citinewsroom