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NDC promises registering Ghanaians without restrictions … but NPP says ‘its shifting of goalposts’
Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu, has said that a National Democratic Congress (NDC) government will make it natural for the Electoral Commission (EC) to register all qualified Ghana citizens and issue them with Voter Id cards.
This, he said, would be done within the 100 days of coming into power.
According to him, the NDC intended to do that by deploying acceptable electronic technology, which would work into the future of electronic voting for Ghana.
Mr Iddrisu gave the assurance when he briefed journalists Wednesday in Parliament after the House had voted to accept the Report of the Committee on Subsidiary Legislation on the Public Elections (Registration of Voters) (Amendment) Regulations, 2020 (C.I 126).
The House, moments earlier, by a division, which was won by 106 to 92, adopted a motion to accept CI 126 introduced by the EC to proscribe the use of the Ghanaian birth certificate and the Ghanaian Voter ID card current as valid documents to be used for the registration for new Voter ID for the 2020 general elections.
Mr Iddrisu maintained that the NDC was persuaded to stand by the Ghanaian public, whose right to vote has remained entrenched and guaranteed under the 1992 Constitution.
He said many Ghanaians in the future would appreciate the principled position taken by the party as political opposition and Minority against the EC’s exclusion of the birth certificate and voter’s identity card.
“Many of you, going forward and into the future, would appreciate the principled position we have taken as political opposition and political minority, wary of our numbers, it is not a vote we could win or easily win, but we are persuaded to stand by the Ghanaian public whose right to vote, remain entrenched and guaranteed under the 1992 Constitution,” he added.
However, Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, the Majority Leader, reacting to the Minority’s press conference, accused the Minority NDC caucus of shifting the goalposts on issues of the electoral register from insufficient budget allocation to the EC, and now to birth certificate.
He noted that in 1992 when the first voter’s register was being compiled, the birth certificate was never used, so was the 1995 and 2012 re-registration exercise.
Mr Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu also explained that the remit of the Committee on Subsidiary Legislation was defined by Standing Order 166 and their task was to prove whether the CI brought by the EC infringes any constitutional law.
He said the EC officials made it known to the committee when they debated the estimates of the EC’s budget in December that they were going to compile a new voter’s register and that they would not use the birth certificate – GNA
A 30-year-old man has been sentenced to 25 years imprisonment with hard labour by the Bekwai Circuit Court for his role in a 2022 robbery at a mining site at Manso Akwasiso in the Ashanti South Region.
The convict, Dominic Ofori, also known as Fanta, was arrested on 16th February 2026 after years on the run. He pleaded guilty before the Bekwai Circuit Court to robbery contrary to Section 149 of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 Act 29, and was accordingly sentenced to 25 years imprisonment with hard labour.
On March 20, 2022, the Manso Adubia District Police received intelligence that a group of armed men from Manso Abodom were planning to attack a mining site at Manso Akwasiso to rob the owner of gold concentrate. Acting on the information, police mounted a coordinated operation and laid an ambush at the site.
At about 5:30 pm the same day, four-armed men arrived at the site, fired indiscriminately, and robbed the miners of their gold concentrate. The police team on surveillance intervened, resulting in an exchange of gunfire.
Three of the suspects, Abu Abubakar, Musah Latif, and Gideon Takyi, sustained gunshot wounds and were pronounced dead on arrival at St Martins Catholic Hospital at Agroyesum. Dominic Ofori escaped at the time but was later arrested and put before the court.
The Ashanti South Regional Police Command has assured the public of its continued commitment to combating violent crimes and bringing offenders to justice.
The Ashanti Regional Police Command has arrested 45-year-old Isaac Boafo, also known as “Duabo King,” for allegedly publishing false news intended to cause fear and panic.
Police said the arrest follows a viral TikTok video in which Boafo claimed that four officers at the Central Police Station in Kumasi engaged in inappropriate conduct with commercial sex workers during night patrols in Asafo.
Officers from the Police Intelligence Directorate (Ashanti Region) apprehended Boafo after receiving intelligence about the video.
During questioning, he admitted to creating the video to attract views and engagement online, and acknowledged that he could not prove the allegations.
Boafo also admitted making comments about the President of the Republic for content purposes and could not defend those statements.
He has been formally charged and is in detention as investigations continue.
The Ashanti Regional Police have warned the public against publishing or sharing false information on social media, noting that such acts can cause fear, panic, and damage reputations.
They said anyone found engaging in similar conduct will face legal action.
By: Jacob Aggrey
