2024 Elections: Honour your payment obligation to election officials – AEI to EC

The African Electoral Institute (AEI) is calling on Ghana’s Electoral Commission (EC) to honour its payment obligation to all election officials during the just general election.

“The African Electoral Institute (AEI), as part of its advocacy for efficient electoral systems which are critical for free, fair, and credible elections, wishes to appeal to the Electoral Commission of Ghana to ensure that all electoral officers are paid.

“The AEI finds it unfortunate that months after elections, patriotic Ghanaians who sacrifice their security to serve the nation remain unpaid, irrespective of how small that money may be. This worrying trend must be reversed,” the Institute stated in a press release.

Below is the full statement

PRESS RELEASE
TO: ALL MEDIA HOUSES
DATE:16 TH APRIL , 2025

AFRICAN ELECTORAL INSTITUTE APPEALS TO THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION TO HONOUR ITS PAYMENT OBLIGATION TO ALL ELECTION OFFICIALS FOR THE 2024 GENERAL ELECTIONS

The African Electoral Institute has once again gathered and verified that the EC Ghana has not paid any of its election officials who worked for it during the 2024 general elections. The African Electoral Institute (AEI) as part of its advocacy for efficient electoral systems which are critical for free, fair and credible elections, wish to appeal to the Electoral Commission of Ghana to ensure that all electoral officers are paid.

The AEI finds it unfortunate that months after elections patriotic Ghanaians who sacrifice their security to services the nation remain unpaid, irrespective of how small that money may be. This worrying trend must be reversed.

AEI calls on the media and all other like minded CSOs to join this advocacy to fight for the right of these election officials. The EC must make this payments a priority.

The EC must come out with clear explanation and guidelines to how and when payments will be made.

Though the EC promised Ghanaians to upgrade its system of payment so it can do prompt after service payments using mobile payments this has not seen the light of day. Thus as AEI has recommended in the past the EC must see the modernization of its methods for payments to election officials as an urgent matter. They can learn from the SSG in this regard.

In conclusion, the AEI wish to alert Ghana that the 2024 General Elections cannot be said to be completed when election officials remain unpaid. Ghana first! At AEI we say Integrity of Choice.
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SIGNED
Joshua Adjin-Tettey
Director of Communications and External Relations
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