Heavy security presence at EC as IPAC meeting holds

Personnel of the Ghana Police Service (GPS) have deployed heavily at the premises of the EC where IPAC meeting on the compilation of a new voters register is scheduled for Wednesday, May 27, 2020.

Although it is not exactly clear as to why the police are there, the heavy security presence at the Electoral Commission (EC) has over 70 police men guarding the area.

Over 15 political parties were invited to attend the Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) meeting which is expected to be held in two groups. The first session began at 10am while the second at 2pm

However, the largest opposition party, National Democratic Congress (NDC) remains adamant that it will not participate in the meeting adding that it (IPAC meeting) has been improperly arranged.

Peter Boamah Otokunor, a Deputy General Secretary of the NDC, stating a walkout by this party on March 25, 2020, established that “That meeting does not constitute a proper IPAC meeting because they had divided one committee into groups; you may want to call it double tracking, to decide on the same issue. And we think that with any such an approach, you are not going to properly appreciate and understand the issue and contributions from various political parties and we believe that, decision making will be problematic.”

The NPP, in response, said that the decision by the NDC was unsurprising but maintained that the meeting would come on regardless.

Source: ghanaweb.com