The Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana has
decided to offer a second chance for deleted National Health Insurance Scheme
(NHIS) voters who could not re-register during the last week’s re-registration
period.
The EC on Wednesday announced at an Inter Party
Advisory Committee (IPAC) that there will be a mop up exercise for the deleted
NHIS voters from August 5 to August 12, 2016. It has also planned to commence
the continuous voter’s registration exercise from August 19, 2016.
This meets the request by some political
parties to the EC to extend the re-registration period to allow those whose
names have been deleted to re-register.
The commission further explained that a total
of 22,107 out of the 56,772 names deleted from the voters register have
re-registered and pointed out the possibility that not all the registrants
would come back to re-register.
The Head of Communications at the EC, Eric
Dzakpasu, had told journalists last Friday that “there is no possibility that
the remaining people will come out to re-register even when the extension is
granted.
The extension satisfies the Supreme Court’s
ruling directed towards the EC to give opportunity to the deleted NHIS card
registrants to re-register.
Hamidu Abdul-Lateef
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