Voters’ Register: Persons Responsible Could Be Prosecuted – Franklin Cudjoe

A Policy think tank, IMANI Africa has stated that all actors responsible for the just-ended compilation of the new voters register are candidates for prosecution in the near future.

According to the President of the think tank, Franklin Cudjoe, the compilation of the new US$130 million electoral roll was unnecessary and the process has been a waste of state resources especially when he believes the exercise could have been conducted with an amount of US$30 million.

He said, “These are candidates for prosecution. We have wasted a significant amount of money to compile the register. Whoever saw it, whoever organised it, whoever supervised it, whoever participated in it, whoever did whatever to get the tender process to go through and whoever looked on for the same number of the registration papers to be procured. We have lost US$130 million when we could have used US$30 million for this exercise and it would have been done.”

He spoke on Eyewitness news on Citi Fm.

The voter registration exercise ended with 16,963,306 persons being registered according to provisional statistics from the electoral commission.

These figures are pending de-duplication and adjudication from the EC after it announced that some minors and foreigners were captured.

Source: GhanaFeed.Com