SALL kicks against EC's decision to amend C.I. for them to vote in 2024

Co-Chairman of the Joint Steering Committee of Santrokofi, Akpafu, Likpe and Lolobi (SALL) Traditional areas, Dr Joe Addae, has kicked against the Electoral Commission’s move to get Parliament to amend Constitutional Instrument 128 to enable them vote in the next elections.

Deputy EC Chairman in charge of Corporate Services, Dr Eric Bossman Asare on JoyNews’ The Probe said the Commission has begun the process of amending the Constitutional Instrument 119 and 128 to allow residents of Santrokofi Akpafu Likpe and Lolobi (SALL) to vote in the next elections.

But, Dr Addae says tracing the root causes of their disenfranchisement will resolve their grievances.

“Now you have come back to say you are now going to amend the Constitution to pave a way for us to vote in four years’ time. This doesn’t make sense to me and I think the people of Akpafu and Lolobi will not be satisfied with this arrangement.

“Let’s go into the nitty-gritty of what happened because we never petitioned to be part of Oti [Region] and then you just come and add us to them. And so let us go to the basic cause of our disenfranchisement and consider the way forward,” he said.

Residents of Santrokofi, Akpafu, Likpe, and Lolobi (SALL) in the 2020 election could not participate in the Parliamentary elections contested in the Buem Constituency.

This was after the EC in a statement dated 6th December 2020 said the SALL residents who fall within the Guan District could not vote in the parliamentary elections because the constituency that should have been created for them has not been done.