The Central Regional branch of the National Democratic Congress is demanding a forensic audit and re-exhibition of the 2024 provisional voters register.

Presenting the party’s petition to the Electoral Commission on Tuesday, September 17, 2024, during the ongoing ‘Enough is Enough’ nationwide demonstration, Kweku George Ricketts-Hagan, Member of Parliament for Cape Coast South, highlighted major discrepancies identified by the NDC following their audit of the voters' register.

According to him, one of the major anomalies was the illegal transfer of voters and the deletion of names from their original polling stations.

“The audit brought to the fore anomalies such as disparities between transfers as recorded by the EC’s district office and the transfers brought from the EC head office and effected for no apparent reason. The deletion of names of voters from their original polling stations without the EC assigning any reasons as indicated on the absent voters list,” he mentioned.

Ricketts-Hagan further noted that data from both the EC’s district offices and its head office contradicted each other, raising concerns about the credibility of the voters register.

“The audit compared the 2024 anomalies made by the EC district office across the region and the 2024 transfer issues by the EC head office. Data on the hard drive showed 1,259 transfers while the EC head office’s data for the exhibition showed 4,286 a difference of 3,027. This ugly phenomenon runs through for all constituencies in the region.

“In Effutu constituency alone, while transfers recorded as shown by the print out issued by the district EC showed 6,206 while on the hard drive, the EC head office showed transfers of 10, 113 with a difference of 3, 907…,” he added.

Thousands of Ghanaians, mostly supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), have thronged the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange, at Circle in Accra, as part of the party’s ‘Enough is Enough’ demonstration against the Electoral Commission of Ghana.

The demonstrators, who are clothed in NDC colors as well as red and black apparel, are demonstrating against the EC’s objection to an independent audit of the voters' register for the 2024 elections.

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