Sam Okudzeto, an astute lawyer and a member of the Council of State, has urged the Electoral Commission, EC, to start the new voters’ registration exercise in places that are not under the lockdown.
In an interview with Eyewitness News, the former President of the Ghana Bar Association reiterated that the EC can consider compiling the new voters’ register in turns or batches by starting off in areas that are not under the lockdown.
He argued that Ghana’s COVID-19 cases are not severe and dramatic as compared to many countries in the world.
He said;
“Our cases of the Coronavirus are not as dramatic as it is in many countries which means that we only have few pockets in the two big municipalities and few of the smaller ones. So since the lockdown is not the whole of Ghana”.
Meanwhile, the EC has put on hold its plans of the compilation of a new voters’ register over the ban on public gatherings imposed on Ghanaians as part of efforts to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus disease that has bedeviled the country.
Source: www.fnn24.com
