Seasoned journalist, Kwesi Pratt says EC's compilation of a new voters' register is unprecedented and first of its kind.
The Electoral Commission (EC) commenced its new voters' registration exercise on Tuesday, June 30.
The exercise is aimed at compiling a new voters' register for the upcoming general elections and subsequent elections.
Before the exercise, there were lots of controversies over whether it is relevant for the electoral management body to compile a new register or rather review the old register.
The EC was saddled with law suits but a 7-member panel presided by the Chief Justice unanimously ruled that the Commission is an independent body and has not acted in contravention of its mandate as enshrined in the 1992 constitution.
This ruling therefore empowered the EC to begin the exercise.
Making his submissions on Tuesday's 'Kokrokoo' on Peace FM, Kwesi Pratt noted that there's never been a time in the history of Ghana where an entirely new voters' register has been compiled.
According to him, previous registers were not newly compiled because the EC accepted the old voter ID card as a source document for registration.
To him, once the old voter ID card is used to register, the voters' register doesn't become a new one but rather a review by the EC.
''Today, the old ID card has been excluded. The old register has no relevance to the compilation of a new register. So, this is a unique exercise. It has never happened before; we're writing an entirely new register'', he said.
But speaking on the same programme, the National Organizer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Henry Nana Boakye a.k.a Nana B disagreed with Kwesi Pratt's assertion.
Nana B stressed a new voters' register has been compiled four times in the country.
Kwesi Pratt however replied the NPP National Organizer saying his statement is a distortion of the facts.
"We've never compiled an entirely new register, never . . . In the past, when the register is opened, you could use your old ID card as source document. So, that process amounts to a review of the register," he insisted.
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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Kwasi Pratt is indeed a seasoned and dangerous journalist who should never be trusted because he has realised his master John Mahama has failed in his bid to thwart EC from compiling a genuine voters' register. He should not and never be trusted even if he makes an intelligent argument.
Kwasi Pratt has never been a season Journalist. He is and continue to be the most notorious irrelevant communist minded individual who would have been discarded, imprisoned or executed a la Che Guevera in Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana, Fidel Castro's Cuba, Russia or Communist North Korea and China FOR NOT CHANGING POLITICALLY WHEN PERESTROIKA HAS DOWN. Very disinginious and diabolic in all he stand for and speak. NO WONDER, Hypocracy is written all over his face when he pontificates on National Issues predictable on negativity. ***barred word*** Nonsenses always spewed with a corona virus saliva on unsuspecting hosts.
THE USE OF EXISTING VOTER'S ID TO PROVIDE A NEW VOTER'S ID DOES NOT CONSTITUTE COMPILATION OR REVIEW OF A REGISTER. IT ONLY SERVED TO PROOF THE IDENTITY OF A PERSON ACCORDING TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL INSTRUMENT OF THOSE TIMES. THE CURRENT VOTER'S REGISTRATION DEMANDED FOR A MORE ACCURATE NATIONAL ID OF THE GHANA CARD FOR IDENTIFICATION, HENCE THE REJECTION OF OF THE PREVIOUS VOTE'S CARD AS PROOF OF NATIONAL IDENTITY. SO THE VOTER'S REGISTER IS NOT DETERMINED AS NEWLY COMPILED OR REVIEW BECAUSE OF WHAT IS USED FOR IDENTIFICATION. IT IS NEWLY COMPILED WHEN THE PREVIOUS ONE CANNOT BE USED WITH THE NEWLY REGISTERED ONE. IT IS CONSIDERED REVIEWED WHEN LIMITED NEW REGISTRATION IS CARRIED OUT TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL VOTE'R'S ID FOR THOSE WHO TURN 18 YEARS, OR HAD TRAVELED, OR WERE INDISPOSED DURING THE COMPILATION OF THAT EXISTING REGISTER. SO OLD VOTER'S ID DOES NOT DETERMINE A COMPILATION AND A REVIEW OF A REGISTER. IT ONLY SERVED AS PROOF OF IDENTITY IN THE ABSENCE OF THE NATIONAL ID OF THE GHANA CARD. LIMITED REGISTRATION CONSTITUTES A REVIEW AND THE ENTIRE REGISTRATION CONSTITUTES COMPILATION POP
IT IS SAID THAT A PERSON WHO IS HALF EDUCATED IS DANGEROUS THAN ONE WHO IS NOT EDUCATED. KWESI PRAATT IS TYPICAL EXAMPLE OF THIS VIEW. WHAT MAKES A REGISTER NEWLY COMPILED? A REGISTER IS NEWLY COMPILED AS LONG AS THE PREVIOUS ONE CANNOT BE USED. SO WE HAVE HAD SEVERAL NEWLY COMPILED REGISTER SINCE 1992 ANY TIME WE MADE NEW REGISTER TO MAKE THE PREVIOUS ONE NOT USEFUL. THE REGISTER CAN BE SAID TO BE REVIEWED WHEN WE DO LIMITED REGISTRATION TO INCLUDE PEOPLE WHO TURN 18 YEARS BEFORE ANY ELECTION. IN THAT CASE EXISTING VOTER'S CARD IS USED TOGETHER WITH NEW ONE. SO WE HAVE HAD SEVERAL NEW COMPILATIONS AND REVIEWS IN THE FOURTH REPUBLIC. PLEASE, IT IS GOOD TO KEEP QUIET THAN TO PUBLICIZE YOUR IGNORANCE PRATT. GO AND LEARN ENGLISH AGAIN.
masa Kwesi this registration dey pain you too much, why? I believe the ndc has sensed danger, their world bank is frozen now that we know. They will never come to power again. Masa Kwesi is becoming bipolar. Masa Kwesi there is a first time to everything don't pretend to be surprised. The foundations of the country are been built one block at a time and the mistakes especially of your party are being corrected. If you don't agree because of your parochial dishonesty then go and burn the sea. You're not the only know-it-all person in Ghana. The talking is overboard and you and your people have been jettisoned a long ago.
Your father is a thieff.
Massa this talk here talk there will not do you any good and will not change anything . You are doing your pay masters work and you know you and them have failed woefully so stop these needless complains and agitations.The process is ongoing and we want to here if it is going on smoothly or not and not the court issue now
MR PRATT IS NOT MAKING ANY SENSE0 AT ALL. YOU ARE ALWAYS DEFENDING THE INDEFENSIBLE MATTERS BECAUSE YOU SOLD TITLE OF SOCIAL COMMENTATOR TO A POLITICAL SPOKESPERSON FOR NDC PARTY.
That nana yaw kesse host is more ***barred word*** than sefa kayi. If look at the he he does his things it is clear he is part of the catal being used in the media. Moron!
Don't mind them Kwasi, they are into stealing Ghanaians money. Their days on earth are numbered. This is completely daylight robbery. Nana Addo is a thieff.