Akosombo dam spillage: AEI lauds EC for free replacement of voter ID for victims

African Electoral Institute (AEI) has commended the Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC) for the free of charge replacement of the voter ID cards of the victims of the Akosombo Dam Spillage.

“AEI also appeals to the EC to further use its Mobile Team to reach communities that are far from its District Offices within the catchment areas especially the communities that are across the river for many voters to have access to the replacement exercise and this laudable offer by the EC,” the Institute disclosed in a statement.

Below is the full statement

PRESS RELEASE
TO: ALL MEDIA HOUSES
DATE: 6th JUNE, 2024

AFRICAN ELECTORAL INSTITUTE (AEI) LAUDS THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION OF GHANA(EC) FOR THE REPLACEMENT OF THE VOTER ID CARDS FOR VICTIMS OF AKOSOMBO DAM SPILLAGE FREE OF CHARGE

African Electoral Institute (AEI) lauds the EC for the free of charge replacement of the voter ID cards of the victims of the Akosombo Dam Spillage in a statement issued by the EC on 29th May,2024 in fulfilment of its duty to ameliorate the economic loss suffered by the victims.

AEI also appeals to the EC to further use its Mobile Team to reach communities that are far from its District Offices within the catchment areas especially the communities that are across the river for many voters to have access to the replacement exercise and this laudable offer by the EC.

SIGNED:
Augustus Kweku Eshun
(Director of Communications and External Relations)
Tel 024-460 9891

Deputy Director of Communications and ExternalRelations
Nii Adjin Adjin- Tettey
0540904550

3rd Dep. Director of Communications and ExternalRelations
Emmanuel Biri
0538421573 ( WESTERN REGION AND CENTRAL REGION )

Ex WO1 Alhaji Yussif Mahamah, Head- Electoral Security Department
0243311965

The African Electoral Institute ( AEI) is a Civil Society Organisation (CSO) founded to deliver sustainable electoral solutions to Emerging and Developed Democracies to strengthen, augment, and build electoral stakeholders capacity and participation on electoral issues through electoral education on voter’s rights and freedom, electoral research, election monitoring, election observation, election results collation, election security awareness and training of polling agents and elections directors underscoring the fact that “elections are won at the polling stations’’ and the participation of all identifiable electoral stakeholders in an electoral process such as Political Parties, Governmental Institutions, underpinning transparency and accountability for a free, fair, and credible elections in Africa and the wider world.

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