Mrs. Eunice Yeboah Quaye the Okaikwei North Municipal Electoral Officer of the Electoral Commission has reiterated the Commission’s commitment to organize a free, fair, credible and transparent elections in December.
She was optimistic that the Commission would get it right in the 2024 December Presidential and Parliamentary elections as it had always done in previous elections.
“I want to assure all of us here that as the Electoral Commission has always been doing, always delivering a free, fair, credible and transparent elections, so shall it be this time round, we are definitely going to get it right”.
Mrs Yeboah Quaye gave the assurance at the inauguration of the Okaikwei North Municipal Inter Party Dialogue Committee (IPDC) in Accra on Friday.
She continued: “…And we want to assure all our stakeholders that they should come on board and make the 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections a peaceful and successful one for our country and the Municipality as large”.
Madam Vivienne Achel, the Municipal Director of the National Commission for Civic Education, (NCCE) expressed the hope that the IPDC would build a unifying body that would promote peace before, during and after the 2024 general elections in the Okaikwei North Municipality.
She stressed that Ghanaian are united by a common goal to uphold the principles of democracy by ensuring that the December elections are free, fair and peaceful.
“Let’s all work together to ensure that our elections reflect the will of the people in an atmosphere of peace and unity” the Okaikwei North Municipal NCCE Director stated.
DSP Georgina Sabi from the Achimota District Police speaking on money in politics said the phenomena could undermine the effective running of a democratic system through corruption, undermine the principles of free and fair elections as well as erode the trust in the electoral system among others.
To reverse the trend, she noted “even though money is good for you and for me, the use of it in politics has to be properly regulated by enforcing the laws when they are broken”.
Mrs. Joana Amponsah Nkansah, the Deputy Regional NCCE Director urged the gathering to remember Ghana in prayers and strive to protect and safeguard the peace of the country.
Mr. Rexford Mensah-Bonsu, the Assistant NCCE Director for the Okaikwei North Municipality delivering a paper on misinformation and disinformation maintained that in order to have peaceful elections, it is the responsibility of Ghanaians to fight the canker by subjecting news and information especially about the 2024 elections to strict fact checking.
This, he stated has the ability to cause conflict between people, distort people view of the reality and has the potential to promote violent extremism.
A seven-member committee Chaired by Nii Ayibontey Adams III, the Achimota Chief was constituted to steer the affairs of the IPDC for the next four years.
By Jeffrey De-Graft Johnson
