I'll go to court if EC fails to do the right thing - JOY 2012

Independent Presidential candidate in the 2012 elections, Jacob Osei Yeboah a.k.a. JOY 2012 has said he would go to court should the Electoral Commission (EC) refuse to apply the correct technology for the Biometric Voters Register.

According to him the Current exhibition exercise would create confusion should it be maintained.

“I don’t understand why the required authorities would not see to it that the right measures are put in place to scrap off possible election violence, than rather wasting money to train personnel and investing in weapons to prevent election riots during and after the December polls,” he sought to know.

The importance of Exhibition exercise before elections is mainly to take out deceased names from the voters register and not to be so much concerned with persons who registered with unqualified identity cards like the EC claims.

This is because persons who registered with unqualified cards are likely to come for re-registration.

In an interview with Kasapa FM, ‘JOY 2012’ noted “I say without doubt that this current exhibition method of the EC and its other ways of handling issues are unlawful and cannot help clean the voters register for the upcoming elections, rather it would bring about confusion in the country. This is based on my background as a renowned person in identity management with biometric technology and effective ways of its manifestations.”

“Is like the EC has ‘closed its mind’ to wrongly used steps needed to collate the upcoming elections without amending the laws binding it, even though it has an independent right over its decision making. It must also admit to work according to laws of the state as in good faith embrace good ideas or suggestions from citizens, of whom it has refused,” he told Fiifi Banson, host of the show.

However, he suggested that the best way to curb the confusion in the coming polls is for the EC to make sure it has prepared clean voters register for the December elections.