ADVERTISEMENT

Voter register might still contain names of 'NHIS voters' - EC Boss

This comes few weeks after the EC announced that it had deleted the names of 56,000 registrants who used the NHIA cards for registration.

EC Chair, Charlotte Osei

“It’s possible because of the human part [involved in the process]… So it was a manual process…That is why the Supreme Court said that delete all those you have submitted including those you will find,” she said on Good Evening Ghana on Metro TV.

READ ALSO: Election 2016

She said the EC had to contact their over 200 district offices to provide them with the list of NHIS registrants as such information was not available on their database.

ADVERTISEMENT

“...it was only available on the actual form 1A that were provided when people go and register. It has a column for National Identity Number [where the type of ID used was indicated],” she said.

READ ALSO: Election 2016

The Supreme Court on July 5, 2016 directed the Electoral Commission to with immediate effect remove the names of the 56,000 people it presented as persons who registered with NHIA cards as proof of Ghanaian citizenship.

The order followed the case in which former National Youth Organiser of the People’s National Convention, Abu Ramadan and one Evans Nimako challenged the credibility of the electoral roll for the general elections.

Following the deletion, the EC gave the opportunity for the NHIS registrants to re-register. The re-registration exercise is expected to end on Friday, August 12, 2016.

JOIN OUR PULSE COMMUNITY!

Unblock notifications in browser settings.
ADVERTISEMENT

Eyewitness? Submit your stories now via social or:

Email: eyewitness@pulse.com.gh

ADVERTISEMENT