INFLUENNCE DEBATE ON VOTERS REGISTER-ASANTEHENE URGES GBA
The Asantehene,
Otumfuo Osei Tutu has urged the Ghana Bar Association to contribute to the
national debate on a new national voter’s register and also suggest legal ideas
towards electoral reforms in order to ensure credible and free and fair general
elections in 2016.
Otumfuo Osei Tutu made the call at the ongoing national
conference of the Ghana Bar Association in Kumasi.
According to him, the
response to calls for reforms in the country’s electoral system by the Supreme
Court Judges who sat on the 2012 election petition has been slow, a situation Otumfuo
Osei Tutu described as worrying, considering the limited time for the country
to go to the polls next year.
He has therefore tasked the legal body to assist
the Electoral Commission in discharging its duties in this direction,
especially now that it has one of its own, Mrs. Charlotte Osei as EC Chair.
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