Jean Mensa And Cohorts Must Buried The Pride, Pick Lessons From The Veteran Prof Afari Djan

It's only a failing state that the Electoral Commission with tacit support of government would place premium on elections over the health of the citizens.

During a global pandemic where the world came to a standstill, Ghanaians were dragged reluctantly from their homes to mass up at national identification authority temporary registration centers and later at Electoral Commission's polling stations all over the country at the peril of their life.

It appears Jean Mensa Electoral Commission enjoy controversies, ever since they took office they dabble in controversy after controversy.

The first critical assignment performed by the EC was the creation of new the regions and the projection made for the limit registration was inadequate which the National Democratic Congress wanted to know the basis for such low projection, the EC rubbish the question and went ahead to conduct the limited voters registration at the end of the exercise the actual numbers of registered, corroborated the NDC's assertion.

A similar controversy occurred during the limited registration for the district level assembly elections, the EC's combative response was a course for concern.

Jean Mensa EC's are not prepared to accommodate dissenting views, hence their policies and projections often becomes problematic.

Which civilized society would compel a breeder document which is under processing, where a large numbers of the population do not have, be a sole identification document for all transactions.

It's only a failing state where the Electoral Commission with the tacit support of the majority Members of Parliament would often do the bidding of their political party to the detriment of their constituents by approving Bills which are unpopular to the electorates.

The Electoral Commission accused the previous commissioners of maintaining a voters register not fit for purpose and labelled it as ECOWAS voters register. They claimed foreigners and underaged children names are on the register that blotted it beyond the global statistical standards hence the justification for a new voters register.

Jean Mensa EC made it clear before the 2020 compilation of the voters register that they are not obliged to rely on the National Idenficattion Authority before performing their legitimate functions..

Having compiled a new voters register during COVID-19 where some potential voters were disenfranchised and at the end of the exercise the deviation wasn't as significant as we were made believe.

Why the EC want to rely on Prof. Ken Attafuah national identification authority for solace, meanwhile the national identity is not free from the malaise that affected the voters register. The National Identification Authority was unable to fulfilled its several promises of completing 80% of eligible registrants by the end of September 2020...

If the Electoral Commission that bulldoze its way in 2020 to compiled a register is now complaining the register is saddle with some minors and foreigners is an indictment on their integrity.

The Electoral Commission must buried the pride and pick some nuggets from the veteran Prof. Afari Djan's address last week.

Mike Kalley
Sociopolitical Analyst.

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