The rejection of the reason given by the Electoral Commission (EC) by the Inter-Party
Resistance Agency Against New Voters (IPRAN) and the call for probe into the Airbus
scandal by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, grab media headlines on Tuesday.
The Daily Graphic reports that the IPRAN was insisting that there was no justification for
a new voters register as proposed by the EC.
It added that the new register would cost the country GH¢800 million (about $137.93 million),
which could be used to abolish the double-track system.
Mr. Osei Kwame Grifiths, a leader of the IPRAN and Director of ICT for the National
Democratic Congress (NDC), presenting a paper on, “Why the EC Doesn’t Need a New
Voters Register for 2020 Elections”, said, the commission could just retain the data and
port them onto a new system.
“Even if you want a new system, you can port the data, since it is portable. It is also not the
case of a vendor lock-in,” he argued.
He explained that the current register was credible in that EC had confirmed same at a press
conference in December 2019.
The Ghanaian Times and other newspapers carried the story of the call for the probe of the
Airbus scandal in which a yet-to-be named government official in the erstwhile NDC
administration was allegedly involved.
The newspaper, however, adds that the opposition NDC is fighting the allegation that a
former elected official of the government was involved in the scandal.
DAP/GIK/APA