Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Central Region NDC accuses NPP of planning to rig forthcoming elections

  The Central Regional Secretariat of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) on Monday accused some constituency branches of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) of "putting a machinery in place to rig the December general election" in the region.
     The Secretariat alleged that some executive members of the NPP in the Assin-North and Mfantseman-West constituencies were going round some communities collecting voters' Identification (ID) cards from members of the NDC, with the excuse that they were going to register them with the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) or grant them loans.
     Mr Peter Light Koomson, Regional Secretary of the NDC, who made the allegations at a press conference in Cape Coast, cited the Assin North Constituency for instance where an NPP parliamentary candidate had collected the ID cards of about 50 members of the NDC with the promise of granting them loans.
     He said the parliamentary candidate had collected GH¢50.00 each as processing fees in addition to eight passport size photographs.
      According to Mr Koomson, at Ayaase in the Twifo-Atti Morkwa Constituency, the NPP had again devised a "modus operandi to disenfranchise some people who have Ewe names and are settler farmers, by colluding with officials of the Electoral Commission to delete their names from the voters' register, because they belong to the NDC and pose a threat to the NPP".
     The NDC Regional Secretary said the Secretariat had alerted the police about the collection of the ID cards and claimed that some of the culprits have been arrested while the case was under investigation.
     He said the various communities were therefore being educated to desist from giving out their ID cards to people, since it was an offence to do so.


Source : GNA

No comments: