Court orders EC to provide roadmap to cleaning voters' register
The Supreme Court has ordered the Electoral Commission (EC) to submit the names of all those who registered with National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) card to it.
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The apex court has also ordered the EC to submit in writing how it is going to delete the names of those who registered with NHIS cards, minors and deceased on the voters register.
The EC is supposed to carry out the order by 29 June 2016
This latest order comes on the back of a recent application by former youth organiser of the People’s National Convention (PNC), Abu Ramadan and one Evans Nimako, for clarifications from the court on its earlier ruling ordering the EC to expunge the voters’ register of names which were registered with the NHIS cards.
Graphic Online’s Emmanuel Ebo Hawkson reports that the court criticised the EC for failing to reveal its roadmap in implementing its earlier order on May 5 for the commission to take steps to clean the register.
According to him, the court noted that it would not allow the EC to plunge the country into chaos due to its failure to implement its judgement regarding the electoral register.
"Let it be known that when we make a pronouncement and it is not complied with and the country gets into crisis then you blame judges. We will not allow that to happen," Justice Sulley Gbadegbe is said to have made this comment.
The Court has set July 5, 2016 to determine the credibility of the voters’ register.
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Meanwhile, the Deputy Commissioner in charge of Operations, Amadu Sulley on Wednesday told the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament that it had set aside July 18 to August 7, 2016 to exhibit the voters' register.
According to him, the exhibition exercise would afford the EC the opportunity to clean the register and come up with a credible register for the elections.
He told PAC that "It is during the exhibition that we are able to come up with a credible register or do the cleaning and there are various processes that lead to the cleaning of the voters’ register. The exhibition period is when we clean the register.”