Johnson Asiedu Nketia, the General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has claimed that the Electoral Commission (EC) is encouraging with its GH¢100,000 filing fee for the presidential election race.
The EC has announced GH¢100,000 as the official filing fee to be paid by presidential aspirants and persons who want to join the presidential race for the upcoming Dec 7 elections.
But, commenting on the said fee, General Mosquito claimed that the amount is too much which will eventually breed corruption in the future.
He claimed;
“If you’re going to put people in the office and the process of getting into that office is so expensive that the salaries of elected officials cannot be expected to reasonably defray the cost of getting into that office, then it is obvious that the elected person would have to look elsewhere to defray the cost”.
“And also it is no news that political parties have been arguing for some state funding so that politicking becomes less expensive in the country. So far we don’t seem to have gotten any part-funding or subsidy or anything. So parties are left to their own design as to how to raise funds to conduct their internal activities.”
