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Supreme Court can instruct EC on NHIS voters – Otoo

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  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33 ) 7 years ago

    OMAN NO AS3E!! THAT IS THE TRUTH!!! ANY CHIEF WHO WILL COME OUT AND SHOWER ANY PRAISES ON THE INEPT AND CORRUPT MAHAMA WILL INCUR THE WRATH OF HIS VERY SUBJECTS BECAUSE THEY ARE SUFFERING. ENKO YIE!!!!! THE FOUNDERS OF THE ND ...
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  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33 ) 7 years ago

    Oman no as3e! !! YOU CAN SEE IT EVERYWHERE. THE TRUTH IS THAT, THIS IS NOT THE GHANA K4 HANDED OVER TO NDC GREEDY CORRUPT BASTARDS. HE EVEN ADDED FRESH CRUDE OIL WELLS. NDC HAS OVER THE PAST 5 YEARS PRESIDED OVER THE BIGGEST ...
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  • OLD SOLDIER 7 years ago

    Author:- sahib.....
    CORNEY, even if you are made the judge on their trail you will find them guilty so they will get fair trail.... This shit by the NDC must stop or must BE STOPPED. What these NDC boys are doing today is fa ...
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  • Godwin 7 years ago

    Ghana as a country is not made of only NDC officials and their apparatchiks and therefore the corrupt practices going on is the attitude of the people. Unless there's attitudinal change, it doesn't matter which party is in po ...
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  • OLD SOLDIER 7 years ago

    Author:- Kassam.....
    Ndc as a party is not helping .You behaviour gives the impression that the Ec is working for you.Why don't you stop jumping in to defend the Ec all the time

  • Efo Kwaawaaku Canada 7 years ago

    They (supreme Court ) has already did but the bitch bidding for ndc criminals to continually rigging elections was putting blind eye on the ruling, why can't supreme Court punish the bitch for disobedience of their ruling? L ...
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  • OLD SOLDIER 7 years ago

    Author:- PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33 ).....
    The 2016 flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says his message for this year’s elections is on job creation, hinged on the industrialisation of th ...
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  • Kekemeke 7 years ago

    Your English is so smelly. A kindergarten Efo baby will not write that way!!!

  • vigour 7 years ago

    We hope the SC is going to disenfranchise any citizen of the land. Any decision must be guided by the ability of the institutions to find alternative means of registering the affected the people.

  • EBBY 7 years ago

    No citizen of the country will be disenfranchised by the Supreme Court ruling. This exercise is meant to weed out those non-citizens who were sneaked in by various entities and regitered to vote illegally for their respective ...
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  • OLD SOLDIER 7 years ago

    Author:- PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33 )......
    OMAN NO AS3E!! THAT IS THE TRUTH!!! ANY CHIEF WHO WILL COME OUT AND SHOWER ANY PRAISES ON THE INEPT AND CORRUPT MAHAMA WILL INCUR THE WRATH OF HIS VERY SUBJECTS BECAUSE THEY ARE ...
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  • Kwabena Aboagye 7 years ago

    The Supreme Court should quickly and swiftly end this nonsense hullabaloo now. Why all these? Obviously this nonsense about the deletion of NHIS cardholders on the voter's register has been caused by the Supreme Court. Parlia ...
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  • EBBY 7 years ago

    Parliament makes laws but those laws should not be in contravention with the constitution. Therefore any Ghanaian can challenge this NHIS law passed in 2012, at the Supreme Court. The court is the only body charged to interpr ...
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  • Kwabena Aboagye 7 years ago

    Ebby, where in our 1992 Constitution is it stated categorically that NHIS cards cannot be used for Electoral registration. There is none!. The presumption is that aliens may also be able to acquire the NHIS card but the NHIS ...
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  • EBBY 7 years ago

    The constitution clearly states that only CITIZENS OF GHANA who are 18 years and above are eligible to register and vote. Therefore if someone uses NHIS card as proof of citizenship to register and vote, that becomes a cons ...
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  • Kwabena Aboagye 7 years ago

    Ebby, you are correct. We are on the same side of the argument. The provision on the constitution that you have just quoted is Article 42. The lacuna in the law for the identification of who is a Ghanaian was provided by Parl ...
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  • EBBY 7 years ago

    If I'm correct, i guess your point is that the Supreme Court should allow those who have already registered with NHIS cards in 2012 to remain in the register but prevent new registration with the card from now onwards. Now ...
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  • Kwabena Aboagye 7 years ago

    Ebby, I QUOTED ARTICLE 107 (B) - Retroactive legislation -to buttress my contention. The Order given by the Supreme Court for the deletion of the names of NHIS card holders retrospectively, was inconsistent with the provision ...
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  • EBBY 7 years ago

    I get your point but remember that the Supreme Court is the only body charged with the interpretation of the constitution. Any law passed by parliament that is not in consonant with the constitution can be declared null and v ...
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  • KA Na Wu 7 years ago

    Kwabena, I don't know your background but I think you lack some basic understanding of how the three arms of government operate in a democracy.

    The fact that parliament has passed the law does not mean that is the end if ...
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  • Jamez 7 years ago

    Challote Osie is no mother wai. A new voters register will end all of this so called nonsense.

  • Huakpoyo 7 years ago

    i think you spoke well. Could you go to court to be formally heard?

  • Nana Kuffuor, Abeka 7 years ago

    You should all sit down thinking the Supreme Court will solve your electoral problems for you. On the contrary they are going to cause chaos. I don't know what is important about the NHIS card. The best way forward is to fun ...
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  • Ben Jason 7 years ago

    the EC is not the problem but the political parties, individual,civil organization trying to dictate the EC are the problems including the media which failed to put accurate information in to the public domain. even if we cal ...
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  • Jamez 7 years ago

    Yes disenfranchise ALL. Just give us a new register matter finish. It has been done since 1992 long before NHIS cards came. Lets get a new register and stop wasting time.

  • NDC IS SATANIC 7 years ago

    What do you mean by disenfranchise? You can't dictate to the Supreme Court, that is what you empty heads in the ndc must know? Is delete and re-register disenfranchise? You people are disgrace to our country, Ghana a Gate W ...
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  • EAGLE EYE 7 years ago

    EC NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE.WE CAN SEE THE EC HAS SOMETHING TO HIDE .MRS OSEI THE LIFE OF GHANAIANS ARE IN YOUR HANDS,DON'T LET PERSONAL INTEREST DESTROY AND SOIL UR HARD WORN CV

  • Constable Joy 7 years ago

    ........BUT K4 WON THE ELECTION TWICE WITH SAME.STOP SHIFTING THE GOAL POST.

  • Donboli 7 years ago

    Every Ghanaian know that the supreme court and courts of Ghana are Supreme. Electoral Commission is not formed to tell people what they can use to be in their register. EC job is to register Ghanaians, if the NHIS is for Ghan ...
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  • Voter 7 years ago

    Our legal system has failed us big time. In 2014, Afari Gyan claimed he had registered over 240,000 overseas voters. When he was asked to produce the list of overseas voters, he presented under 750 names to the Supreme Court ...
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  • Kwame 7 years ago

    The case have been won already technically,now we all know that NHIS CARD is an illigal document either to register or to vote with so come november 7 nobody would be allowed to use the card to vote either NPP or NDC SO those ...
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  • BOY KOFI 7 years ago

    Nobody can twist the order of the Supreme Court.The Chief Justice,Georgina Wood has ordered Abu Ramadan and his lawyer to provide their evidence in court on the 5th July,2016,just 2 days more for the ruling.We are all waiting ...
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  • T.T QUAYE 7 years ago

    Another useless and foolish man. I think he said he is a lawyer. What a bush way of talking. The SC has ordered the stupid idiots to produce the millions of the NHIS registered people to the court. What is the beef of this ya ...
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  • KA Na Wu 7 years ago

    Here we go again!! These are the WISE words of a self-acclaimed better educated individual.

    We truly have a very serious problem in Ghana - the uneducated not knowing their limitations and bleating at the top of their voic ...
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  • Nana Yaa 7 years ago

    Common sense is common but not very common to all! You must be ashamed of yourself but throwing those bad words around! I suppose you lack education and proper ethics on your utterances that's why you can hide behind your scr ...
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  • SIMPLE TRUTH 7 years ago

    IF the ec has acquired KNOWLEDGE and not using it to advance PRPOGRESS and DEVELOPMENT,WHAT use is it FOR? THE GAME is her and mahama.She wants to play HITLER with US WHILE mahama has taken the STYLE OF GOEBBELS,RICH IN PROPA ...
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  • ugly akufo addo 7 years ago

    he can't even build a house n his relaying on inheritance

  • Victor A. Young 7 years ago

    Hahaha! NDC as usual is putting sand into people's eyes. The SC has the power to impeach the president. So what's the noise all about?

  • Obuamah 7 years ago

    These NPP goons never cease to amaze. What does this Ayikoi Otoo man mean by lowly figures? Has he got any proof of a different figure, or he is relying on the conjecture and imagination of those hallucinating idiots? If you ...
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  • NANA 7 years ago

    If those doubting the 56,000 figure are hallucinating, what will you call those imbeciles who told the whole world on record that they have the evidence that deleting NHIS cardholders names will disenfranchise millions of Gh ...
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  • BOY KOFI 7 years ago

    Now listen carefully,you cannot use any statement from your opponent as evidence in court.Anybody going to court must prepare his personal evidence because your opponent can always change his statement into a different contex ...
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  • EBBY 7 years ago

    I suppose that maybe you are a lawyer but do you know what is called discovery of evidence? Since the EC produced the list from the voters register which no one else has, the court can compel the EC to make that make that lis ...
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  • BOY KOFI 7 years ago

    I'm not a lawyer but logic is not for only lawyers.I heard it loud and clear when the Chief Justice ordered Abu Ramadan to provide evidence in court if he doubts the NHIS list presented by EC is fake.Mr Abu Ramadan himself we ...
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  • BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 7 years ago

    Answer is a new register!

  • kusasi 7 years ago

    is it a force for nana to be president?election is won at the poles not at the EC

  • Akwasi Nyame Adom 7 years ago

    Dangerous Mahama with their criminal crooks in NDC plus the evil EC boss are finally caught in the web. Goodness will forever overcome evil.

  • Brodie Mends 7 years ago

    According to Afari Gyan, there are millions of voters who registered with the NHIS cards. Now, the Lyin' Charlette says only 56,000 registered using the cards. So it seems some one is not telling the truth! But the truth wil ...
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  • BOY KOFI 7 years ago

    The Chief Justice has already oredered Abu Ramadan to provide evidence in court on Tuesday for ruling so please kindly go and help him if you have any evidence.Thank you.

  • Descartes 7 years ago

    TWO DAYS AGO,THE HIGHEST COURT IN AUSTRIA ORDERED RE-RUN OF THE PRESIDENTTIAL ELECTION IN MAY 2016, BECAUSE OF FORMAL FAILURE DURING THE COUNTING PROCESS.THE SUPREME COURT IS THERE TO SOLVE PROBLEMS.

  • Aikins 7 years ago

    Smh.. Am sick and tired of this hypocritical country.... The SC are behaving naive. The EC shd jx go ahead and pronounce Mahama the winner, infact they can gv him 8 more years...... Country broke Country no broke we all de ...
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  • Iwan 7 years ago

    I'm surprised that the supreme court did not ask for the names of dead voters to be deleted. I know three.

  • razak seini 7 years ago

    Why is ur party always interested in cutting populations of voters bf u can win. Look at the alliance compliance order in 1961,look at jj when he was sent to court as an alien, when he was to stand on ndc ticket in 1991, look ...
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  • Bbb 7 years ago

    EC must resign,she is not up to the job,.

  • PAULO 7 years ago

    At the moment one will think that the EC's chair is NDC and the NDC is the EC chair.
    I thought that the EC was for the interest of Ghana and so what is going on with her attitude? If charotte Osei wants to work for the NDC a ...
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  • Abeeku Mensah 7 years ago

    I expected Nii Ayikoi Otoo to know better but Ghana politics has a way of making once presumed smart people dumb and ignorant as heck. The Supreme Court of Ghana like other Supreme Court across the civilized world's do not ma ...
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  • black magic 7 years ago

    hi there is indian spritualist in the wold call for all spritual problem money charm locket
    and knws that this year is for the lord lucifer a lot will happen in 2016 just calculate
    666+666+666+6+6+6 give the answer is ...
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  • Kwasi USA 7 years ago

    Is two things to think of.either Charlotte osei is lazy or incompetent maybe both.she is not doing her job thr way she supposed to do.and it is Dangerous to our democracy....

  • dunaa 7 years ago

    There are only three branches of government - the Executive (President), Legislature (Parliament) and the Judiciary (the Supreme Court and other courts). The Ghana CHRAJ and Electoral Commission (EC) are independent bodies bu ...
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  • Sam 7 years ago

    Blame these prople. These used state funds to recruit foreigners from the three neighbouring countries to register with NHIS so they can vote in Ghana's elections.

    Their criminal act is the reason the NHIS claims has risen ...
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  • Sam 7 years ago

    This is why under NDC, no official from NHIA has gone to jail inspite of massive corruption at the NHIA.
    NHIA officials own facilities that submit claims to NHIA. They have made so much money to acquire mansions, send their ...
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  • Kofi Gbagbladza 7 years ago

    Ayikoi Otoo is becoming a stupid lawyer. He is a fool. Who told the idiot that SC cannot instruct EC to delete NHIS carders. But SC must make its orders within the law. Are u stupid Ayikoi Otoo?

  • EC UNGRATEFUL TO ITSELF 7 years ago

    ONE CAN SEE FROM ALL INDICATIONS THAT CLEARLY CHALOTTE WANTS T RIG THE POLLS IN FAVOUR OF MAHAMA AND NDC. WHICH IS VERY BAD. NPP HAVE ACCEPTED THE SC RULING THEN WHY THE NDCs DECEPTION OF THE RULING. WHATEVER THEIR PLANS WIT ...
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  • EDUARDO DOMINGO 7 years ago

    AS YOU GUYS IN THE NPP LOSE YOUR SENSES WHEN IT COMES TO POLITICAL GAINS , YOU WILL CAUSE TROUBLE IN THIS COUNTRY !! SUPREME COURT IT SELF HAVE BEEN MOVING CAUTIOUSLY , HOW EVER THE NPP GUYS WANT TO USE THE SUPREME COURT TO G ...
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  • Gzingo 7 years ago

    Ayikoi Otoo you don't speak for Ghanaians ,but NPP which u belong to.was this not the same register used for 2012 which sent NPP mps to parliament which u guys claim u won the election ? Be truthful and behave as a ...
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  • Kekemeke 7 years ago

    Those who have the 4 million data should present it to the Supreme Court. This SHOULD include the one who categorically said " most of the registered voters" registered with NHIS cards.

  • Wunzooya 7 years ago

    Let us give Ghana a chance to have PEACE. Why will EC not compile a new voters register in the interest of ghanaians

  • Niim3Niim3 7 years ago

    The NHIS Card is full identity required to receive Medical Care in Ghana. It is free to obtain but that does not mean it is a worthless piece of I.D. Sincerely speaking as a national I.D. it passes all tests. Weighed agains ...
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  • max $ maxx solid -UK 7 years ago

    GHANAIANS MUST OPEN THEIR EYES AND EARS WIDELY WHEN LISTENING TO THESE PRESENTORS.THERE ARE A LOT OF REVELATIONS YOU CAN GRASP FROM THEM.OPD,s PROGRAMME FOR TODAY THE 03/07/2016 which was ending at 18:00 GHANA LOCAL TIME.He s ...
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  • samuel azumah 7 years ago

    the sc cannot just take decisions like that.they will look into the case and decide based on available evidence.the ec put up the numbers with explanations.the npp can not do anything.political parties outside Ghana cannot do ...
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  • Whatever 7 years ago

    The suprme court cannot voilation the constitution. EC is Independent