Missing laptops: EC is looking for a way to spend more money – Franklin Cudjoe

Mr. Franklin Cudjoe

President of IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe has urged Parliament and the Ministry of Finance not to entertain the electoral commission when the commission comes to seek for money ahead of the 2024 General Election.

The EC on Wednesday said the allegation of seven missing Biometric Voter Registration kits is false.

However, Deputy Commissioner Dr. Bossman Asare who addressed the press said five laptops in the kits have been stolen.

While the EC has been accused of incompetence, Franklin Cudjoe says he believes there is a grand plan for the EC to go to Parliament and the Ministry of Finance to ask for money to procure devices.

He insists that Parliament and the Finance Ministry must reject any such advances from the Electoral Commission.

“Some people think that it is actually incompetence. I see it as a grand plan. When people want to destroy something and you think that they are incompetent at it, it is actually a ruse so you assume that they don’t know what they are doing but they are actually clever at doing it.

“They messed us up and wasted that amount of money and now they are finding ways and means and trying to come back and say that they want to spend more money again. Again, the word is true; I don’t trust them one bit.

“When I heard that they claimed they’ve lost some biometric equipment and now they are claiming laptops which is all part of the system anyway, I told Parliament and the Finance Ministry not to entertain them,” Franklin Cudjoe said in an interview with TV3.

Meanwhile, Franklin Cudjoe has disclosed that he does not trust the Electoral Commission ahead of the 2024 General Election.

“Look at the last elections, I mean the very thing they did, announcing figures multiple times,” he bemoans.