Gov’t has no intention to interrupt internet connection during December 7 polls – Joe Anokye

The Director-General of the National Communications Authority (NCA), Dr. Joe Anokye has stressed that internet connectivity will not be intentionally compromised during this year’s general election.

Since Ghana started experiencing internet challenges last week, there have been claims that it could be a test run by the government before the 2024 general election.

The claim is that government plans to sabotage internet connectivity in the December 7 polls to rig the results.

However, addressing these claims, Mr. Joe Anokye has indicated that it is false.

According to him, government has no such plans and internet connectivity will not affect this year’s polls.

“That is completely not true if you understand how elections work, infact I believe one official of the EC even addressed this that on election day everything they do is manual. So there is no truth to that, the government won’t do that,” Mr. Anokye said as quoted by JoyNews.

He further explained that although it has been established that the internet challenges result from a cut in fibre cables undersea, it is yet to be determined what caused the cuts.

“These 4 cables in Ivory Coast, Cote D’Ivoire, ACE, one of them is called Ace. That’s the one closer. it’s about 118km or so. Between that cable and the next cable is about 11 kilometres and just to put it in context, you know, 11 kilometres is from, like, you know, the general post office to Accra Mall.”

“The distance between that cable SAT-3 and the next cable, which is the main one, is allegedly to be about 67 kilometres, which is like from Accra Mall to Suhum. And all 3 were compromised. The distance between Main One and WACS, it’s also 77 kilometres. This is Suhum to Nkawkaw. So it is very difficult to determine exactly what happened,” Mr. Joe Anokye explained.