File photo: NDC’s office in the Ashanti Region.
The Ashanti Regional branch of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has said that it will not be silenced by a court order secured by the police to stop them from staging a demonstration.
Members of the party in that part of the region were expected to stage the demonstration today [Monday] dubbed “Yempene; Baa mu yada” against the Electoral Commission (EC) over the upcoming limited voter registration exercise ahead of the district assembly elections later this year.
But the police in the region on Friday secured a court order to halt the demonstration.
But Kwame Zu, the Ashanti Regional Secretary of the NDC told Citi News the party will make its concerns publicly known.
“Regardless of the police decision to secure an ex-parte court order, we intend gathering at our party office to address our party members and subsequently hold a press conference to lay bare our concerns for the public to peruse. In as much as we respect the laws of our country, we will continue to make known our concerns publicly regardless of the decision of the Ghana Police Service to thwart our genuine effort at deepening our democratic efforts,” he said.
In April the NDC kicked against the decision of the electoral body to undertake a limited voter registration exercise in only its 250 offices across the country.
According to the party, such a move would end up disenfranchising many qualified potential voters.
The General Secretary of the NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, at a press conference contended that undertaking the exercise in the offices of the commission might hinder potential registrants in view of time, distance, energy and expense that will be involved in their travelling to the offices of the EC.
