Relatives of deceased urged to inform EC to delete names from register

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BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 9 years ago

YOU CALLED THESE OLD TWO FRAUDSTERS AS A NEW CANDIDATES??? TWEAAAA!!!! IS THE SAME OLD BAD AND ROTEN PRODUCTS THE NPP HAS SENT TO THE MARKET AGAIN. DR. PINK SHEET WILL LOSE AGAIN .

YOU CALLED THESE OLD TWO FRAUDSTERS AS A NEW CANDIDATES??? TWEAAAA!!!! IS THE SAME OLD BAD AND ROTEN PRODUCTS THE NPP HAS SENT TO THE MARKET AGAIN. DR. PINK SHEET WILL LOSE AGAIN .
Mahmoud 9 years ago

In conclusion, the President’s power to appoint the Chairman and Members of the EC is merely a ministerial one. The substantive power of appointment is assigned to the Council of State. The President shall act on the advice ...
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In conclusion, the President’s power to appoint the Chairman and Members of the EC is merely a ministerial one. The substantive power of appointment is assigned to the Council of State. The President shall act on the advice of the Council of State means the President is barred from the nomination, vetting and selection process. Those who framed the Constitution were keenly aware of the impropriety inherent in allowing the President, a political player, to play a critical role in selecting the political referee. Nevertheless, out of deference for the office of the President, the framers allowed him, as the Chief Executive Officer, the honour of “appointing” the candidate selected by the Council of State. In this case, all the President is required to do is to issue the appointment letter under the Presidential seal but no more.

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OLD SOLDIER 9 years ago

Author: OBAA YAA
...So, the people around the president including his wife and those Team “B” staffers were aware of the president failing health. Therefore, who were they kidding when they ruin insults on whoever ques ...
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Author: OBAA YAA
...So, the people around the president including his wife and those Team “B” staffers were aware of the president failing health. Therefore, who were they kidding when they ruin insults on whoever questions the former president health?
As much as I hate to admit Rawlings was right with his statement. If they have had listen to those who were concern with the president health, he might be alive today.
bembem 9 years ago

fool

fool
AKORA OTENG 9 years ago

Cos of your stupid comment, u could not use your identity. Ghana does NOT need idiots like you at a time when we are in the crossroads with NDC Govt., that is confusing us all. Back to the topic, we have Registration of Birth ...
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Cos of your stupid comment, u could not use your identity. Ghana does NOT need idiots like you at a time when we are in the crossroads with NDC Govt., that is confusing us all. Back to the topic, we have Registration of Births and so why do we have to ask the individual families to inform the EC when infact the Hospitals who conduct Orthopsies can send all Deaths it registers to the Data-link. If we do NOT have a NATIONAL DATA that links all the 275 Constituencies, them it is about time they operate one immediately.This is serious. We hear a lot of GHOST EMPLOYEES exist in Government Pay- Rolls. How can this continue in this time of Technological Age. Why do people at the HELM continue to make UNNECESSARY noise without employing those with knowledge to effect the needed changes. This is CORRUPTION cos they lose the moneys that they steal from Government or State coffers if they remove those GHOST NAMES from their Registers. Let us begin to remove and jail all those CORRUPT LEADERS.
jojo 9 years ago

what is the purpose of Ghana's ministries of birth and death registries making such stupid request to the public will make some unscrupulous politician to take advantage and start deleting his opponent supporters name or clai ...
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what is the purpose of Ghana's ministries of birth and death registries making such stupid request to the public will make some unscrupulous politician to take advantage and start deleting his opponent supporters name or claim they are dead. EC your brains and stop making uneducated requests. sometimes I wonder how some of you guys got to the position you're in. strategize with the people you work with rather than this one man show we use in running everything in Ghana, it makes you sound stupid in public.
joe Moore 9 years ago

good comment sometimes i wonder how our leaders think.

good comment sometimes i wonder how our leaders think.
OLD SOLDIER 9 years ago

AUTHOR:-PROFESSOR-----------------
In just two years, John Dramani Mahama and the NDC have brought Ghana to its knees economically. Now, after stealing all of Ghana's money, these stupid and low life miscreants from the NDC ...
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AUTHOR:-PROFESSOR-----------------
In just two years, John Dramani Mahama and the NDC have brought Ghana to its knees economically. Now, after stealing all of Ghana's money, these stupid and low life miscreants from the NDC are plotting more of the same misery on Ghanaians in 2016? Ghanaians would be the biggest fools on this planet if they vote for NDC in 2016. And, when will the corrupt Electoral Commissioner be changed? Dr. Afari-Djan has no credibility whatsoever!
jojo 9 years ago

what is the purpose of Ghana's ministries of birth and death registries making such stupid request to the public will make some unscrupulous politician to take advantage and start deleting his opponent supporters name or clai ...
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what is the purpose of Ghana's ministries of birth and death registries making such stupid request to the public will make some unscrupulous politician to take advantage and start deleting his opponent supporters name or claim they are dead. EC your brains and stop making uneducated requests. sometimes I wonder how some of you guys got to the position you're in. strategize with the people you work with rather than this one man show we use in running everything in Ghana, it makes you sound stupid in public.
OLD SOLDIER 9 years ago

AUTHOR: MARTIN A.B.K. AMIDU....

It would appear that those in control of the NDC, for the time being, were bent on excluding other bona fide members of the Party who may wish to lay democratic claims to who becomes the ne ...
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AUTHOR: MARTIN A.B.K. AMIDU....

It would appear that those in control of the NDC, for the time being, were bent on excluding other bona fide members of the Party who may wish to lay democratic claims to who becomes the next flag bearer of the Party by excluding them even before the mortal remains of the demised President were interred. It is also symptomatic of how political party elites in Ghana and Africa worm their way into the confidences of persons perceived as likely to ascend to power positions for purposes of eventual personal economic gain at the expense of the generality of the mass of Party members and the Nation which every President swears to serve under the Constitution
hasan yakubu 9 years ago

I thought the government employs persons to work at the death and birth registry to do such work of informing the various government bodied about such episodes a so why should families do this for people paid to do the same j ...
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I thought the government employs persons to work at the death and birth registry to do such work of informing the various government bodied about such episodes a so why should families do this for people paid to do the same job.might as well save money by make those persons redundant so everyone knows their holy duty to inform on such cases. Ghana oh oh oh Ghana when do we rise above silliness'.
AKORA OTENG 9 years ago

I agree with you 100% except that some people do not send their deaths to hospitals be 4 they are buried. If NOT then why do we NOT have a NATIONAL DATA which registers BIRTHS and elliminate all DEATHS and place them on anoth ...
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I agree with you 100% except that some people do not send their deaths to hospitals be 4 they are buried. If NOT then why do we NOT have a NATIONAL DATA which registers BIRTHS and elliminate all DEATHS and place them on another Register of same. Oh Ghana, where are all the BRAINY ones who have to coordinate the State Institutions. What is going on?
Joe Turkey 9 years ago

The stupid governments of Ghana should ensure the Birth and Death Registry works. Families should be issued with death certificates to burry their dead. Data can then be easily obtained from that database o continuous basis. ...
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The stupid governments of Ghana should ensure the Birth and Death Registry works. Families should be issued with death certificates to burry their dead. Data can then be easily obtained from that database o continuous basis. A bereaved and mourning family should not go to the EC to inform them that their relative is dead. This is crass stupidity.
DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 9 years ago

Exactly my very case below. It is such a crassitude on their part that totally defies belief. God Almighty! What have they been doing all these years? The aforementioned clearly spells it out that there has never been a clean ...
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Exactly my very case below. It is such a crassitude on their part that totally defies belief. God Almighty! What have they been doing all these years? The aforementioned clearly spells it out that there has never been a clean and fair elections in Ghana since 1992 up-to-date as lectured before the world by the Electoral Commission in favour of one party or the other.

In fact, if the EC's registration of potential voters has been done in such a haphazard mode all these faithful years through the very testimony they are showcasing here, then how does one conduct a successful free and fair elections in a country with such registry full of potential ghost names and minors?

How did they manage to pull that off beats me to a knockout of a headache now! Simple, the register must be thoroughly clean and clean it must now.
JONG 9 years ago

IT A SHAME POLITICIANS ARE BETTER OF THAN ORDINARY GHANAIAN EVEN THOUGH ORDINARY GHANAIAN VOTE GOT THEM THERE UNLESS THAT IS CHANGE GHANAIANS WILL NOT BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY ESPECIALLY ORDINARY GHANAIAN

IT A SHAME POLITICIANS ARE BETTER OF THAN ORDINARY GHANAIAN EVEN THOUGH ORDINARY GHANAIAN VOTE GOT THEM THERE UNLESS THAT IS CHANGE GHANAIANS WILL NOT BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY ESPECIALLY ORDINARY GHANAIAN
koofie 9 years ago

This is a disgrace in a country without a population data base. We are laughing stock.

This is a disgrace in a country without a population data base. We are laughing stock.
truth 9 years ago

Dr, just compare the voters register to national identification register and arrest any under age voter and pass a law to jail them for two years and trust me no under age voter will try to vote. They are nation breakers

Dr, just compare the voters register to national identification register and arrest any under age voter and pass a law to jail them for two years and trust me no under age voter will try to vote. They are nation breakers
DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 9 years ago

Why can't the Electoral Commission (EC) contacted the Ministries Of Birth and Death registries to inform themselves adequately as to whether expunge a name/names from their own registry or keep such names before the 2016 gene ...
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Why can't the Electoral Commission (EC) contacted the Ministries Of Birth and Death registries to inform themselves adequately as to whether expunge a name/names from their own registry or keep such names before the 2016 general elections? In fact, it's their sole mandatory duty to be doing such on their pay-grade to bring the needed credibility they're so forcefully preaching in here before all to the voters register. Consequently, this could have been far easier if the ongoing street and house naming exercise across the length and breadth of the country would have been done with by now.
Yaw 9 years ago

Don't rely on human factor. Use technology to do that. Link your network to Births and Deaths Registry.
Final death registry should be issued by Internal Affairs and record deaths.

Don't rely on human factor. Use technology to do that. Link your network to Births and Deaths Registry.
Final death registry should be issued by Internal Affairs and record deaths.
boss 9 years ago

I don't blame him, i blame the senseless, vision less clueless politicians at parliament, what reform have they done in the Ghanaia constitution. All they know is money, selfish gain not the nation at large

I don't blame him, i blame the senseless, vision less clueless politicians at parliament, what reform have they done in the Ghanaia constitution. All they know is money, selfish gain not the nation at large
Kpakpatsewe 9 years ago

very odd. Ghana has had systems in place since 1888 which was formalised in 1965. There are feeds from all hospitals, cemeteries, police, army, tourist boards, embassies and so on. If the EC western regional director himself ...
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very odd. Ghana has had systems in place since 1888 which was formalised in 1965. There are feeds from all hospitals, cemeteries, police, army, tourist boards, embassies and so on. If the EC western regional director himself has to ask for this sort of data from citizens ??
JB Osei-Brown 9 years ago

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2016 9 years ago

This one week exercise by the EC, is one of the most important processes on the electoral calendar, and it is very, very, very important that, the various stakeholders, the political parties, most especially, the NPP, stays v ...
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This one week exercise by the EC, is one of the most important processes on the electoral calendar, and it is very, very, very important that, the various stakeholders, the political parties, most especially, the NPP, stays very, very vigilant and ensure the register is thoroughly cleaned as a critical first step towards free, transparent and credible elections in the country. The exercise is from October 24th to October 30th at all polling stations in the country.
All the various political parties should get on this exercise and be keenly invested in this exercise so Ghana limits the chances of a repeat of the election petition of 2016. Vigilance is the key here and a clean voters register is a must. Be vigilant!!!

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