POLITICS
Registering SHS students in schools illegal, against C.I. 91 – Muntaka
The Member of Parliament for Asawase, Mr Muntaka Mukabarak, has said the decision by the Electoral Commission of Ghana to create registration centres in all the senior high schools to register SHS students is against Constitutional Instrument (CI) 91 that is governing this year’s elections.
According to him, C.I. 91 stipulates that the EC will need to gazette such a decision 21 days before the registration but that has not been done, yet, the registration of the students is starting tomorrow, Friday, 10 July 2020.
He told Accra100.5FM’s parliamentary correspondent Richard Appiah Sarpong in an interview that: “This morning, we are hearing directives that the Electoral Commission is saying they are going to create centres in secondary schools to register the children, this is against the C.I.91”.
“The C.I.91 is very clear that if you want to create a polling station, you have not to gazette it 21 days before the start of the registration”.
“Now you are going to open registration centres in secondary schools when you have not gazetted it, what do you want to do. You want to create confusion.”
The EC announced on Thursday that it will start registering final-year senior high school students for the voter ID card from tomorrow.
The EC took the decision after an Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) meeting held in Accra.
The election management body said it received a letter from the Ghana Education Service (GES) requesting it to capture the students in the exercise.
The EC started the voter registration exercise on 29 June 2020.
The students went back to school about a month ago after President eased restrictions a bit so they could study for their final exams.
—Class FM
-
Lifestyle2 months ago
Road Safety Authority narrates how buttocks causes road accident
-
GENERAL NEWS2 months ago
Why 15 police officers stormed Owusu Bempah’s church – Kumchacha narrates
-
GENERAL NEWS2 months ago
Watch how Ibrahim Mahama rode Honda superbike to pay last respects to late friend
-
GENERAL NEWS2 months ago
How Offinso residents storm destooled queen mother’s house, demand for new chief
-
South Africa News2 months ago
Woman thrown out of a speeding taxi while on her way to work
-
SHOWBIZ KONKONSAH1 month ago
Junior Pope’s Death: Video of John Dumelo refusing to join canoe for movie shoot over safety concerns resurfaces
-
GENERAL NEWS1 month ago
Deadly clash between youth and navy personnel results in two deaths at Tema Manhean
-
News Africa3 months ago
‘Satanically dubious’ – SCOAN releases statement on BBC’s report about TB Joshua, church