The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has lambasted the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for demanding the serial numbers of the Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) kits being used in the ongoing Limited Voter Registration exercise.
The NDC claims the request is aimed at ensuring transparency in the electoral process, but the Electoral Commission (EC) has rejected the request, citing security concerns.
In a statement released on May 9, the EC warned that disclosing the serial numbers to external parties could compromise the integrity and security of the electoral system.
Responding to the NDC’s concerns, Haruna Mohammed, Deputy General Secretary of the NPP, described the request as a “lazy approach” and urged the NDC to trust the EC ahead of the 2024 polls.
According to Mohammed, the NDC’s request is unfounded and unnecessary, and the party should instead focus on preparing for the elections rather than casting aspersions on the EC’s credibility. The NPP’s response has further heightened the political tensions between the two parties, with the NDC likely to respond to the NPP’s criticism in the coming days.
“I think the NDC is very lazy at their work, to ask for BVR serial numbers from the EC. If you read carefully the CI, that regulates registrations in Ghana, we realise that all political parties have agents across all the 268, centres where registration happens.
“These machines are displayed, and the number of machines allocated to each centre is clearly known…and what I do know is that in all registrations that we have done, no political parties have been given serial numbers of these machines.
“But I don’t know exactly if they meant to receive these serial numbers, their agents can’t easily again get these particulars, names and, details of these
