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The Bishops/Pastors Network is calling on the Chairperson of
the Electoral Commission, Mrs. Charlotte Osei, to be bold and listen to the
majority of Ghanaians who are calling for a new voters’ register for the
conduct of December 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections.
In a letter, dated 22nd September, 2015, which was addressed
to the EC Chairperson, and copied to the National Peace Council, Christian
Council, the Ghana Catholic Bishops Conference, the Ghana Pentecostal Council,
the National Association of Christian and Charismatic Churches, the political
parties and the media, the group explained that as network of clergy men it is
their duty to pray for the leadership of the nation, and also add their voices
to matters of national concern.
Bishop Edmund Aryee, the Presiding Bishop of the Bishops/Pastors Network who appended his signature to the letter, said that a new voters' register is of the utmost importance if Ghana is to have a credible, transparent and unsuspicious election.
According to Bishop Aryee, the current voters' register has been associated with too many doubts, controversies, disputes, negative perceptions, errors, and many unanswered questions have deepened suspicions about the credibility of the region.
The suspicions about the credibility of the voters' register, he stated, largely arose out of the 2012 election petition.
On the claims being made by Johnson Asiedu Nketia of the National Democratic Congress and Bernard Mornah of the People's National Convention, who are both calling for a cleansing of the voters' register instead of the compilation of a new one, he stated that this is not enough to clear doubts being harboured by the majority of the Ghanaian electorate, who will continue to remain suspicious about the authenticity of the current voters' roll.
"To completely remove and cleanse these doubts and suspicions from the mind of the electorate, prevent violence and achieve a credible, free and fair election, the option revealed to us is a new voters' register," Bishop Aryee said.
According to Bishop Aryee, the current voters' register has been associated with too many doubts, controversies, disputes, negative perceptions, errors, and many unanswered questions have deepened suspicions about the credibility of the region.
The suspicions about the credibility of the voters' register, he stated, largely arose out of the 2012 election petition.
On the claims being made by Johnson Asiedu Nketia of the National Democratic Congress and Bernard Mornah of the People's National Convention, who are both calling for a cleansing of the voters' register instead of the compilation of a new one, he stated that this is not enough to clear doubts being harboured by the majority of the Ghanaian electorate, who will continue to remain suspicious about the authenticity of the current voters' roll.
"To completely remove and cleanse these doubts and suspicions from the mind of the electorate, prevent violence and achieve a credible, free and fair election, the option revealed to us is a new voters' register," Bishop Aryee said.
“If such a recommendation, through a Ghanaian former ECOWAS
Chairman, helped to prevent electoral violence in our neighbouring country,
Togo, why can’t Ghana also apply same recommendation in our country for the
sake of peace?”, he asked.
“Be bold and use a new voter register for 2016”, he urged
Mrs. Charlotte Osei.
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