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'NPP has a long standing habit attack on Voltarians' - NDC

Mr Asiedu Nketia says claims by the NPP constitute a gratuitous attack on the people of the Volta and Brong Ahafo Regions

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The National Democratic Congress (NDC) says allegations by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) that Togolese in the voters' register constitutes an attack on the people of the Volta Region.

According to the General Secretary of the NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, "the NPP has a long standing habit attack on the people of the Volta Region."

He said "The claim by the NPP that persons from Togo and Cote D’Ivoire have had their names on the electoral register is not only fraudulent but also constitute a gratuitous attack on the people of the Volta and Brong Ahafo Regions."

Addressing the press, "There are several border towns in Ghana, why the attack on the people of the Volta Region?, he asked.

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He said, “as far as we [NDC] are concerned this claim is a continuation of the NPP's long standing affinity to tribal politics through which they associate people from certain ethnic and tribal extraction with wrongdoing and heap unsavory comments on them. This is unfortunate.”

The leadership of the opposition NPP yesterday at a press conference to make a case for a new voters' register said the NPP has discovered 76,286 potential names and faces of individuals in both Ghana and Togo register.

According to Dr Bawumia, the evidence is damning and shows that Ghana's register is bloated.

Dr. Bawumia said the uncovering of these foreign nationals in the register is just "10% of the search."

“Our investigative team obtained the Togo voters’ register which was publicly displayed prior to the 2015 Togolese elections. Using facial biometric recognition technology, the system has found 76,286 potential matches of the same people, with the same names and faces on the Ghanaian as well as Togolese voters' registers; some 2000 of which we present in the power point presentation,” he said.

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Mr Asiedu Nketia however added that, "one of the forms of identification for registration under regulation 1 (3) of CI 72 is an existing voter identification card. In order words, if you delete the national health insurance card, the use of an existing voter identification card is still permissible by law."

"So if you open the register today and then people approach the registration centre to register and they present an existing voter ID card derived from the 2012 registration, how are you going to determine that as for this card, it was procured through the use of NHIA card so I will drive that person away," he added.

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