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General News of Monday, January 28, 2019
Source: Starrfmonline.com
2019-01-28
Speaker of Parliament, Professor Mike Ocquaye
The Speaker of Parliament, Professor Mike Ocquaye, instructed the Commissioner of Elections to take steps to prevent voters from taking a camera during the vote.
"If you want to prevent the purchase of votes, that's one of the ways to do it, because that's one of the reasons the vote must be secret."
"You take a vote using your fingerprint and this shows you that you are voting in a certain direction and that you are going to show it to a person according to a pre-established system or plan, and that you are paid, that's the flight, "he noted at a forum in Accra.
He added: "In other words, it makes it possible to commit a wrongdoing and that is why we must very seriously regulate our laws to cover all the dimensions of the activity that will make it an offense.
At the same time, Ghana's Electoral Commission Chairman Jean Mensa said allowing development partners to partially finance the country's elections was a mistake.
According to her, the tendency to rely on donors to help finance the cost of elections in Ghana generally compromises the independence of elections.
She also lamented the high cost of elections in the country, saying: "Our elections are becoming very expensive businesses where we are constantly counting on our development partners to partially finance our elections, thus compromising our independence."
In her address to the 17th International Symposium on Electoral Matters, she called for measures to be put in place to minimize the country's reliance on development partners to finance its elections.
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