The Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) has called for a significant adjustment to Ghana’s electoral laws to shed light on how pollical parties can fund their campaign activities.

The group has raised concerns about the use of illegal funds, such as monies from galamsey, fraud, and money laundering by political parties and individuals in their pursuit for political power, myjoyonline.com has reported.

Mary Addah, the Executive Director of GII, noted that the hesitation by political actors to tackle the issue of illegal mining (galamsey) could be because they have benefited from it.

She said, “It is increasingly becoming apparent that we need to have a regime that regulates our campaigning that also regulates how we get money into our politics or to campaign.

"Both the Political Parties Act and the constitution did not envisage some of these because we believe that we are honest and very great people who believe in volunteering and so we didn’t envisage some of these things.”

According to the Executive Director of GII, the gaps in the Act of the Political Parties allows unlimited financing.

She said that the GII aims to address the gap by monitoring and tracking cases of vote-buying, campaign financing, and abuse of incumbency in the run-up to the 2024 elections.

This is part of a new project aimed at collecting data on such infringements.

“The Ghana initiative consortium has put together the project and it is intended to monitor campaigns, and spending, track their abuse of incumbency, and document instances of vote buying during the 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections,” she stated.

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