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EC should heed calls to clean voters roll – Rev Dr. Riverson

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  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE) 9 years ago

    AUTHOR: KOFI ************
    hehehehehehee ahahahahahahaaa....ndc filled our governance system with nobodies and non achievers like ablakwah okudzeto the judgement debt negotiator who asked ghana to pay 1.5 billion dollars to a ...
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  • master 9 years ago

    The voters register is there for all to see. Each political party has a copy. What is all this bleating about? The NPP has not come up with one error in the register. Yet they continue to make noise about the register. T ...
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  • Ayamba 9 years ago

    @master,if you don't know or heard about Rev Dr E H Brew Riverson, keep your stupid comments to yourself. People like you will always put NPP colors on any man of God who comes out with anything that touches on good governan ...
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  • T'pau 9 years ago

    Good to hear that he is the same Rev Dr Brew Riverson that I know - former principal of WESCO. I wonder how old he is now. Thanks

  • OLD SOLDIER 9 years ago

    Author:-Apraku...

    "Allotey Jacobs is the most stupid and stomach politicians ,even to tag him as a politician is an insult to the Ghanaian political history.I do question his integrity as an academician.Ever since l starte ...
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  • Kwame Owusu 9 years ago

    Ayamba, you are very knowledgeable and intelligent. I know Dr Riverson back 1970 when he became principal of WESCO, days when as a boy we used play at the college. He is well educated, intellectual and very well respected. ...
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  • Kwame Owusu 9 years ago

    Well said Ayamba, people should listen when educationist like Rev Dr Brew Riverson gives opinion. The man knows what he is talking about. I remember him back in 1970s when he became principal of WESCO, very intelligent, v ...
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  • William 9 years ago

    Please help by posting the osofo's letter on the web. What case has been established that the register is 'unclean' and that the EC is failing to do its job? EC is not answerable to political parties. It only consults them a ...
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  • GHANABA 9 years ago

    JUST HOLDERS OF NHI CARD WERE ALLOWED TO REGISTER BEFORE 2012 AND IT MUST NOT BE THE CASE .AND AGAIN, THE OVERSEAS VOTERS MATTER IF YOU REMEMBER . THE ARE ANSWERABLE TO GHANAIANS THE CAN'T DO WHAT THEY WANT . GONNA TEACH THE ...
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  • William 9 years ago

    WE MUST WORK TOWARDS GHANAIANS IN DIASPORA ENJOYING THE RIGHT TO VOTE WHERE THEY OR AT A LOCATION CLOSE TO THEM. BUT EC MUST HAVE THE LOGISTICS. LET'S ADVOCATE PROVISION OF THE LOGISTICS. THE ONLY THING TO DO IS LEARN THE RIG ...
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  • Kumiba 9 years ago

    @ William, listen to yourself ......EC is not answerable to political parties. It only consults them and if it is necessary and in the national interest their views are considered accordingly.
    To who is the EC responsible? ...
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  • William 9 years ago

    I don't know if you speak for yourself or your party. But EC cannot answer to you or your party unless it is within the law and logistically possible. She answers to all Ghanaians and the common national interest through the ...
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  • Gambrah 9 years ago

    Did you followed de election petition. Was EC able to account for the number of registered voters from overseas? please for once lets do de right thing.

  • Lee 9 years ago

    Der is nothing wrong calling for a new registor .We have de money so let's go for it. If we are able to get money to Brazil n instead of accounting 4 it will come cry like day old baby
    Den we need new registor dat will benef ...
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  • HolyGhost 9 years ago

    What cleaning, what is the biometric for?, can anyone who's name is not in the voters registrater be able to vote?, only npp fraudsters have the answers.

  • Adanko 9 years ago

    EH must know that if they clean the register good and NDC wins the 2016 elections, good.It would be accepted by everybody. But if they fail to clean it and NDC wins, l tell you, the end result will be very very bad. Ghana wil ...
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  • BBC NEWS! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 9 years ago

    Npp must blame themselves for bringing back the same rotten tomatoes into the Market. Nana Akanfuo Binaddo will never bring back Npp Motorbikes and Bungalows thieves into power. 

  • Nana Amma 9 years ago

    Total RUBBISH

  • OWEN.NEW YORK. 9 years ago

    Any political who does not want the voters register cleaned has a hidden agenda. 2016 election can mare or make this great country and everything possible should be done to avert any ugly situation . I see nothing wrong if op ...
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  • Kobby 9 years ago

    There is every thing wrong with this call. Cost is the problem. Electioneering should not make as poor. Let us have a better verification system which will make nonsense of multiple registration.

  • David 9 years ago

    Stop being intimidated by a useless opposition. If they want war, they will have ruins to rule

  • mensah abrampa 9 years ago

    Can you survive war? You don't know what you're asking for. Which will be more costly, cleaning the voters register or going to war over a bloated voters register and because of the intransigence of the EC and NDC? Think sm ...
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  • fuck u be my name....fuck u ghanaweb 9 years ago

    stupid fool.. we want war.the register will not be clean today or tomorrow bring the war on we are all ready stupid fools.did kuffor or whatever u calm that thief clean any register wen he won?

  • kk 9 years ago

    Well said. A word to a wise is enough

  • George 9 years ago

    When Wuntumi was sending the under aged in Kumasi for registration, what was your say? Rightly under your nose just to turn to blame the EC. Is it the same register used for NPP presidential elections? Was it not the same EC ...
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  • Kobby 9 years ago

    All persons saying the electoral roll is bloated are either IT illiterates or just fermenting problems ahead of 2016 in ready for unleashing problems for this country in the event they lose the election. With biometric verifi ...
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  • yaw 9 years ago

    @ BBC NEWS u this guy have notin to say abt nana addo. always be bring this irresponsible statement becos i no u are irresponsible just like yr mahama.. wondering if u do have brains at all. pls reason up and those small brai ...
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  • The mask 9 years ago

    Some parties in power tend to reward people and communities that they like and neglect other communities. This may be based on ethnic groups or votes garnered. Some people are not happy with the state of affairs.

    Some peop ...
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  • VVIP MAHAMA COCAINE 9 years ago

    PEACE COUNCIL AND ALL THE PARTIES MUST ACT NOW,SHAME FOR ASIEDU NKATIA TO COME UP AND TALK FOR EC,FOR NDC INTEREST ONLY,NO NO NO GHANA IS BIGGER THAN EC AND NDC CRIMINALS PERIOD,FOOOOOOOOLS

  • DISCIPLINE HOLLAND 9 years ago

    IF THERE IS NO CHANGE OF GOVERN, AND THINGS STILL GOES THE WAY ITS GOING PLEASE BECAREFUL OF ANARCHY IN GHANA 2016.

  • efi 9 years ago

    This is exactly what some of us want to reclaim all our stollen game land and takeover their properties.

  • Anthony 9 years ago

    Ghana is not Akufo Addo. He does not have any right to determine what EC should. Rev. Riverson is fake. He is just supporting stupid call by Akufo Addo to EC to clean the voters register. No sane people have room for satanist ...
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  • Anthony 9 years ago

    What makes Reveson to support call by dishonest NPP presidential flagbearer and not what EC says , that there is nothing wrong with the voters register. And that there is no need at all to do any cleaning of the voters regist ...
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  • Lee 9 years ago

    Please stop insulting the elderly. Is good to show respect to your father and mother dat your days on earth may be long. A word to a fool is enough.

  • yaw 9 years ago

    How dare you refer to Dr Riverson as a Satanist?

    Dr Riverson has given years of invaluable service to Ghana and at least he is entitled to his opinions.

    Thousands of well meaning citizens went through Wesley College und ...
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  • nii 9 years ago

    Folks I really don't understand. What is there to clean? The same register have been used in previous elections. The only thing is that new names are added and the dead are removed.what again do they want? Aaba.

  • AGYAAKU 9 years ago

    The saying that "you do not have to trouble trouble for trouble to trouble you", is very apt here. Some very highly respectable personalities in the society have called for the CLEANINING of the Electoral Register aheard of t ...
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  • Paul 9 years ago

    We need to heed these calls from such credible and genuine people.

  • GHANABA 9 years ago

    ATTACK EC OFFICES NOW

  • OBEY THE LAW 9 years ago

    Those calling for the clean of the voter register exercise should be bold enough to point to all Ghanaians the very regions they think the register is bloated. They should hide behind certain individuals and call for these ex ...
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  • fiction 9 years ago

    Rev just live em if dey are nt ready to heed to de numerous advice fr de public n think dey can do as dey please we ll face em in 2016 shld anytin goes weird just like wat happen in 2012 dis useless EC official n their paym ...
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  • efi 9 years ago

    How many family members of riverson whoisis dead have their their name s selected from the voters register.stupid osofo go and buy key soap for e.c to wash the register.

  • 2016 9 years ago

    In the run up to the 2012 elections, the Afari-Gyan led EC threw every and all caution to the wind, went ahead to engage in all sorts of processes and procedures which did not inure to the benefit of the country in terms of t ...
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  • Mankind 9 years ago

    Who the hell in Ghana does not know that Afari Gyan is an NDC agent!! All his nullification of votes is ONLY in Ashanti and Eastern regions!! NONE whatsoever in the Volta, Upper West, Upper and Northern regions. You call this ...
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  • Lawyer Nyamekye 9 years ago

    Earthly judges. Biased analysis. Unlawful order. Ungodly approach.