The management of the national Electoral Commission has been branded the greatest threat to Ghana’s democracy presently.
According to Kobina Tahir Hammond, MP for Adansi Asokwa, top officials of the EC may have to face the death penalty for grievous acts of indiscretion and misconduct that threaten the security of the nation.
The former Minister in the Kufuor administration’s comment follows a new blunder that saw the EC abort a recent voter registration exercise that was to capture new voters on the nation’s electoral roll.
“We have to get all of them hanged, [or] drowned under sea or get some air space craft to send them to mars…This crop of Electoral Commission guys are doing far more serious damage to our constitutional development than the ‘coup d’etats’ that we have encountered in this country,”he said.
The Minority Spokesperson on Energy, said the current crop of officials at the EC failed to put in place the necessary procedures for the district assembly elections to proceed smoothly.
“Any elementary student studying government would have known the structures that the Electoral Commission should have put in place, they did not..300 million cedis was wasted because of this same Electoral Commission”
He recalled that though the Supreme Court asked the EC to return to the basics and undertake a proper local government elections, they failed to do so.
“Sometimes you wonder whether they are actuated by some evil forces. Sometimes you sit down and wonder what kind of forces are actuating the minds of some of these people who are the helm of affairs,” he remarked.
He was convinced the challenges facing the Commission was purely based on “recklessness” rather than administrative lapses.
“Will you describe 300 million dollars down the lane as administrative lapses. I do not, I describe it as recklessness, hopelessness..we have always known that coup d’etats have been the greatest bar to our development but I will say that Sulley and his current crop of leaders are more dangerous than those we undertook or staged coup…
“…these guys if we allow them to go on the way they are going will do worse than the those who staged a coup d’etat in this country…The President and those in authority must stamp their bar to remove them,” he insisted.
The Adansi Asokwa MP’s comments come just a day after a Political Scientist, Dr. Ransford Gyampo, equally demanded the removal of top EC officials who presided over the abortive voter registration exercise.
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