NPP claims over 76,000 Togolese are on Ghana's voters' register
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has said it has discovered about 80,000 Togolese who have been registered as Ghanaian voters.
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According to the party, what they have found was amounts to "a clear indication" that the 2012 voters’ register was bloated.
Speaking at a press conference to make a case for a new register ahead of the 2016 elections, the NPP’s running mate, Dr Mahamudu Dawumia explained that using a facial biometric recognition technology, a team of investigators from the NPP unraveled 76, 286 potential matches of Togolese voters in Ghana’s voter’s register.
He explained that the investigative team obtained all the voters’ registers across the border countries of Ghana; Togo, Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso and used it for their investigations.
Dr Bawumia explained that the facial biometric recognition technology had been programmed to identify facial characteristics such as the distances between eyes and ears.
“When we began the search it was quite amazing what we began to find. The names are exactly the same in Togo and in Ghana. We were able to match these faces and the technology will find you out whether you are wearing a scarf or not,” he said.
Dr Bawumia noted that the team had managed to complete less than 10 per cent of the search and would soon begin work on the Ivorian and Burkina Faso registers.
Read the full statement delivered by Dr Bawumia here
