The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has reacted the request by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to the Electoral Commission to release the serial numbers of the Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) kits used in the ongoing Limited Voter Registration exercise.
Haruna Mohammed, the Deputy General Secretary of the NPP, speaking on the matter admonished the NDC to trust the EC ahead of the 2024 polls, describing the request as a lazy approach.
The NDC had written officially to the EC demanding the release of the serial numbers of the Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) kits used in the ongoing Limited Voter Registration exercise.
It said the move was to ensure transparency during the polls.
But the Electoral Commission (EC), in a statement on May 9 denied the request.
It explained that honouring such a request could undermine the security and integrity of the electoral system and its operations.
The NPP’s Deputy Secretary reacting to the issue said: “I think the NDC is very lazy at their work, to ask for BVR serial numbers from the EC. If you read carefully the CI, that regulates registrations in Ghana, we realise that all political parties have agents across all the 268, centres where registration happens.
“These machines are displayed, and the number of machines allocated to each centre is clearly known…and what I do know is that in all registrations that we have done, no political parties have been given serial numbers of these machines.
“But I don’t know exactly if they meant to receive these serial numbers, their agents can’t easily again get these particulars, names and, details of these machines to them,” he stated.
By: Rainbowradioonline com/Ghana
