High Court halts EC’s workshop

The Tema High Court has placed an interim injunction on the planned workshop by the Electoral Commission (EC) to train its officers for the forthcoming voter’s registration exercise.

The injunction will be in force from yesterday ( Friday April 24, 2020) to Monday April 27.

It followed a legal action initiated by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for Ningo Prampram, Mr Sam Nartey George.

Per the interim injunction , the EC or any of its affiliates is barred from organising the worshop within the period the injunction would be in forc.

“It is hereby ordered that the respondent and all persons claiming through the respondent refrain from holding the workshop or conference scheduled to take place at the Escape Hotel from April 24,” the court, presided over by Justice Eugene Nyante Nyadu, ordered.

Mr George is challenging the decision of the EC to organise the workshop and therefore his injunction application was to stop the electoral management body from going ahead with the workshop which was slated from April 24 to April 29.

Memo

A signed memo by the Training Director at the Headquarters of Electoral Commission of Ghana, Mr Michael Boadu, said the national planning meeting and key trainers training workshop at City Escape Hotel, Prampram, in the Greater Accra Region on the 24th to 29th of April 2020, was to prepare and plan for the forthcoming voters registration exercise.

The memo said the meeting was to be attended by Commissioners, headquarters Directors, Regional Directors, Deputy Regional Directors, Deputy HQ Directors, and some senior officers.

It said due to the State’s directive on social gathering, the meeting was to be conducted in three batches of 25 participants per batch..

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