EC dumps Transparency, Fairness and Integrity ahead of Election 2016.

Ghana's Electoral Commission has now unveiled its plan to commit electoral fraud on Ghanaians ahead of the 2016 elections with yet another action that smacks on the face of common sense. They have unveiled a new logo that can best be described as "crèche logo" doing away its long standing principles of transparency, fairness and integrity.

The long standing issues over the credibility of the voters' register; whether to audit or validate registered voters and lack of clear timetable or even preparation towards peaceful elections, are not their concern in any shape or form. The cost and time the EC has taken in designing, creating and flagging of this new childish logo beat my imagination. They have also answered my long standing fear that the EC is not longer responsive to our calls for fairness and transparency in our elections and their own integrity in exercising this our God-given civil right.

The posture of the Electoral Commission sometimes scares me as to the longevity and the credibility of our democracy. When the referee becomes unresponsive and the chaser is being chased, chaos is the only plausible outcome. We are breeding a wild institution which is no longer responsive to our needs. The spirit of neutrality and responsibility to public needs have completely gone out of the books of the Electoral Commission. The opposition parties have become too weak in the face of the absolute powers of the Commission and the government is playing happy families with them.

There is no doubt that the EC is currently facing a credibility crisis in the public eyes and this will likely have a negative impact on the 2016 elections if steps are not taken to redress the imbalance in public minds. The almost yearlong Supreme Court Petition should have led to some political legacy for our democracy. We need to change the way we hold elections in Ghana and it must start with EC self-introspection before we have a national implosion. We have a great opportunity to put our badly run democracy back on track and it must start with the way our elections are conducted. Surely the arrogant posture taken by the spokesperson for EC does not help the matter in any way and if anything heightens the political tension in our country