Two teenagers from the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality in the Eastern Region have obtained an interlocutory injunction from the Koforidua High Court against the Electoral Commission conducting the District level election in the municipality on January 17, 2023.
The EC and its agents or officers have been retained from holding the elections Lower Manya Krobo until the final determination of the case on violation of their constitutional right to vote in the upcoming elections pursuant to article 33 of the 1992 constitution of Ghana.
The two applicants are Michael Tetteh, and Angel Agyemang, both residents of Agormanya and Asitey.
According to the applicants, the commission failed to conduct a voter registration exercise to allow them to register after reaching the age of 18.
Paragraph 8 of the affidavit by the applicants said: “that since turning 18, we have not had any opportunity to register in order to vote or be qualified to be elected as Assembly Members in the Lower Manya Krobo District Assembly.”
They added, “we have been further advised and believe same to be true that our right to vote is likely to be contravened if the Respondent is allowed to conduct the district level elections in Lower Manya Krobo district level election”.
The applicants prayed the court to restrain the Electoral Commission from conducting the elections until the commission conducts the voters registration exercise in accordance with article 45(a) of the constitution. The Electoral Commission is mandated to compile the register of voters and revise it at such periods as may be determined by law.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
