The Elections On December 7th Will Be Meaningless Without A Forensic Audit

Ghana has suffered losses to its economy, businesses, and investments, due to the inadequate and insufficient investigation of voting fraud in 2016 and 2020. The impact has also led to pervasive corruption, a high rate of youth unemployment, and exorbitant commodity prices, which have made life intolerable for Ghanaians. Since experience is considered to be the best teacher, law-abiding Ghanaians, and the opposition are calling for forensic auditing to prevent history from repeating itself.

Political protests have become the most visible representation of the global movement toward democracy in many developing countries. Gluttony, widespread corruption, and the lack of free and fair elections are a few of the elements feeding the seeds of political instability. The NPP, which formed the current administration, was on track to win both the 2016 and 2020 elections, but a disagreement with some of the party's ex-officials exposed that the previous two were rigged.

The arrogant president, Akufo Addo, claims that "he is not going to hand over power to someone he has defeated twice." Well, 2016 and 2020 are not the same as 2024, therefore whether they like it or not, Ghanaians are demanding forensic audits. To prevent bloodshed, Akufo Addo must agree to the demand for a forensic audit if the NPP government has nothing to conceal and he indeed won the previous elections without using vote stuffing or election manipulations.

The so-called head of the Electoral Commission in 2020, was unable to even produce an accurate figure that would have declared Akufo Addo the winner after manipulating the results more than four times. When the public demanded that Jean Mensa appear in the witness box to explain how she arrived at the figure that led to the declaration of the winner, Mensa refused because she was shielded by Kwasi Anin-Yeboah, the then-chief justice, who shamefully resigned after being implicated in a $5 million bribe scandal.

This should have served as a lesson for Jean Mensa to demonstrate her integrity to those who have lost faith in her; however, considering that the book "Agyapadie," which was the basis for her appointment and electoral frauds, was made public a few weeks ago, Jean Mensa has elevated her criminality to the point where she obeys the dictator Akufo Addo, who hides behind democracy and engages in financial crimes, such as money laundering, which have had a severe effect on the country's economy.

The Electoral Commission's lost biometric devices catalyzed the scheme to rig the 2024 election once more. The public was informed of this once the opposition made this discovery. The EC first denied that the gadgets had been stolen, but they eventually had to admit it. In the unlikely event that this was not a premeditated attempt to rig the results, how could the EC office have been so negligent as to allow devices carrying private information to be stolen by unauthorized parties?

Nevertheless, a few weeks after the devices were stolen; a man was discovered in possession of one of them. However, since crimes are committed under the leadership of Akufo Addo-Bawumia's regime, with impunity, the investigation into how the individual obtained the gadget has remained unresolved. Ghanaians think the man in possession of the gadget was registering names of illegal voters because he was caught in Nsawam-Adoagyiri, an NPP community under the MP Frank Annoh-Dompreh.

Jean Mensa has a history of criminal activity rather than honesty, and she is skilled at manipulating public opinion through deception. In May 2024, she stated, "There can be no transparent elections without a credible voter register." Nevertheless, knowing that her poor performance as the head of the EC for the government that appointed her is pushing her into the opposition, she engages in criminal activities based on the Agyapadie concept to illegally transfer voters from NDC strongholds to unidentified NPP locations.

When NPP politicians Kennedy Agyapong and Hopeson Adorye took to social media to expose how the NPP government had manipulated elections in the past, Ghanaians didn't take it very seriously. The public, however, became aware when the EC's office started working with additional NPP politicians, including Bossman Asare and Serebuor Quaicoe, to either add ghost names to the voter registration or move voter names to NPP strongholds to enhance the numbers.

The Electoral Commission has repeatedly refuted the accusations made by the opposition when they learned of the crimes, but not this time when Pusiga's unlawful transfer was uncovered. To gain the trust of Ghanaians, the EC fired the Pusiga District Director over voter transfer, even though Jean Mensa is still illegally transferring voters. The most recent incident occurred in Ghana's Central Region, resulting in the request that the Electoral Commission explain 35,517 voter anomalies in the voter register.

I want Ghanaians to realize that my articles are meant to inspire them to want the best for themselves as individuals because excellent governance raises everyone's standard of living, whether black, white, or Chinese. Though Belgium is one of the richest countries in Europe without cocoa plantations, I don't see Ghanaians enjoying their resources like gold, oil, cocoa, diamonds, etc. For this reason, everyone needs to support the opposition's call for a forensic audit of the 2024 elections to ensure a free and fair election.