Voters register audit: NPP will fiercely resist any external forensic audit – Nana B
The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has vowed to resist any move to get an external body conduct a forensic audit of the voters register.
According to the party, it is not write that the EC which is enshrined in the constitution as an independent body is made to be subjected to a forensic body by an exertional institution.
Speaking on Peace FM on Tuesday, September 17, 2024, monitored by GhanaWeb, the National Organiser of the NPP, Henry Nana Boakye aka Nana B stated that the complaints filed by the NDC could easily be resolve and does nor require any external auditing of the voters register.
“If you look at our law, the EC is very independent, their independency is enshrined in the constitution and you cannot undermine it. Again, whatever they do is guided by our constitution or the various Constitutional Instruments and amendments.
If you look at the NDC demonstration and their grounds for it, they claim that after this years compilation of the voters register, they have realised that there have been sone transfers, and some dead persons on the electoral roll and they have evidence of such persons who are about 200000. I read a statement from the EC indicating that when the met with the NDC they asked the party to submit their evidence of the discrepancies they claim to have identified so that the commission can resolve the issue, but the NDC declined.
The party is rather calling for a forensic audit by an independent body. This kind of complaints that can be easily resolved should not cause an independent audit to be conducted on a body that the constitution stipulates should be independent.” Nana B said.
He served notice that the NPP will vehemently oppose any such move.
We the NPP when we were in opposition once filed a similar complaint with the EC, we were asked to bring our evidence and we sent them. The Committee which presided over our concerns said there was no need for a new register to be compiled, instead, an opportunity will be given for a special voter exhibition exercise during which the names of dead people will be removed. That was what was done and we used the same register for the general elections.
“We in the NPP will not allow any foreign interference. We will not allow any independent body to come and sit on a constitutionally created body, mandated and well-established. We will not allow the EC to let any foreign body conduct a forensic audit into its affairs. We will resist it fiercely, the demonstration NDC just held cannot compare to the action we will take. Nana B added.