Member of Parliament for Tamale Central on the ticket of the largest opposition party NDC, Inusah Fuseini has amongst other things said the Electoral Commission lacks the bases to explain to parliamentarians and other relevant stakeholders why it wants to compile a new voter’s register.
According to him, the EC’s address to parliament yesterday at a closed-door meeting was a complete waste of time and impervious to reason.
“They simply have no conscience, you have a pandemic, and you have five months to go. When everybody is even thinking of where to go and how we are even going to vote, you are thinking of compiling a register. Why do you want to expose our people to double jeopardy and you have even escalated the jeopardy, the dangers of the compilation”.
The MP made the comment on Daybreak Upper East with Samuel Mbura.
Responding to the recent cocaine saga; the MP said law enforcement agencies should always learn how to work together as people who use these drugs are neither NPP nor NDC.
“We just passed the narcotic and other offenses act less than two months ago, the center of responsibility within the narcotic control board and we have even if a police officer, a customs officer seizes or arrest cocaine in the process he must immediately hand it over to the Narcotic Control Board so why will they be quarreling. All of us must come together to fight drugs, the drugs are killing our people and people are our people”.
Meanwhile, the communication Director for the governing NPP Sanusi Isaiah has debunked claims made by the NDC, adding that “… fighting the pandemic does not mean that everything should come to a halt, initially, we didn’t know how the virus was behaving the advice was that let’s lockdown, the government has done that, let’s wait, share offices, rotate, these people should go this way and vice versa so that experts will be able to identify how to tackle the disease”.
He stressed that “Thank God that we have known our level now and known how the virus is and for that matter, it has been confirmed that across the globe not only Ghana there is no way this virus is going to go anytime soon scientist are still struggling to find an antidote to the virus. We can’t and we are also aware of the constitutional mandate that is on our neck we must have an election by rain or shine and can’t also have an election without a register, so it is the duty of the electoral commission to compile a new register”.
Source:A1radioonline.com|101.1MHZ|Ghana
