Full Report Of EC's Panel On Voters Register


Full report of the panel of eminent persons appointed by the Electoral Commission to deal with the issue of bloated voters register. 

Members of the panel:
 
1. His Lordship Professor V.C.R.A.C. Crabbe

2. Most Reverend Professor Emmanuel Asante

3. Dr. Grace Bediako

4. Dr. Nii Narku Quaynor

5. Maulvi Bin Salih



Profiles:

His Lordship Professor V.C.R.A.C. Crabbe, Co-Chair of the Coalition for Domestic Election Observers, (CODEO), former Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana, former Professor of Law, and former Electoral Commissioner of Ghana;
 
Most Reverend Professor Emmanuel Asante, former Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church of Ghana and Chairman of the National Peace Council;

Dr. Grace Bediako, a former Government Statistician and former member of the National Development Planning Commission;

Dr. Nii Narku Quaynor, a renowned computer scientist, Chairman of the National Information Technology Agency (NITA) Board of Directors, and President of the Internet Society of Ghana; 

Maulvi Bin Salih, Ameer of the Ahmadiyya Mission of Ghana.


HISTORY:

The Electoral Commission last year named a five-man committee to supervise a two-day public hearing on the controversial voters register.

A release signed by the Director of Public Affairs of the Electoral Commission named the committee members as His Lordship Professor V.C.R.A.C. Crabbe; Most Reverend Professor Emmanuel Asante; Dr. Grace Bediako, Dr. Nii Narku Quaynor; and Maulvi Bin Salih.

The Commission said the public hearing has become necessary due to petitions it has received on the voters register.

Some opposition political parties led by the New Patriotic Party have led a campaign for a new register with claims the existing one is bloated.

Pro NPP pressure group, Let My Vote Count has held a demonstration to mount pressure on the EC to compile a new register.

The demonstration turned violent as police clashed with demonstrators as a result of which one person lost an eye.

The governing NDC has also sent its own petition to the EC asking for an audit of the register instead of a new compilation.

The Panel of Eminent Ghanaians held a two-day public hearing on the issue, which took place on Thursday and Friday, the 29th and 30th of October, 2015 at Alisa Hotel, North Ridge, Accra from 10:00hrs to 13:00hrs and 14:00hrs to 17:00hrs daily.

The Panel of five conducted the hearings in the full glare of the Ghanaian public, via live broadcast on National radio (Radio Ghana) and National Television, GTV, in a free, transparent, fair and objective manner. 

The hearings was also streamed live on the internet for the benefit of Ghanaians around the world who wished to follow the proceedings.



Attached is the full report. 




SOURCE: Daily Graphic