EC Advisory Committee lauded

The Chamber for Local Governance (ChaLoG) has commended the Eminent Advisory Committee of the Electoral Commission (EC) to get the EC to outline their justifications for the need to procure a new Biometric Voter Management System (BVMS) and the compilation of a new Biometric Voters Register (BVR) for the 2020 general election.

It, however, said the committee should have spelt out timelines with which the EC was to meet with the Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC).

Stay execution

In a statement issued in Accra, it said ChaLoG was also disappointed that the committee failed to ask the EC to hold on to any further processes leading to the procurement of the BVMS and the compilation of a new BVR to allow for further deliberations on whether or not there was the need to procure a new BVMS and the compilation of a new BVR.

“ChaLoG is, therefore, of the firm belief that the communiqué from Eminent Advisory Committee calling for calm from all political parties and other stakeholders is just a decoy which is only meant to buy time for the EC to go ahead with its untenable reasons and equally cow the political parties and other CSOs into submission,” it said.

It, therefore, called on all progressive forces, political parties, major civil society organisations, prominent and other relevant stakeholders not to be swayed by the committee’s communiqué and not to drop their guard in their fervent opposition to the procurement of a new BVMS and the compilation of a new BVR for the 2020 general election.





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