Ghanaians living in Togo dare Bawumia over Voters’ register claims

Some Ghanaians living in Togo have challenged the NPP running mate Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia to provide evidence to support his claim that about 76,000 Togolese names are on Ghana’s voters' register.

According to the group, the allegation by the former deputy governor of the Central Bank lacks substance and has the tendency to mar the relationship between Togo and Ghana.

At a press conference in the Togolese capital , Lome, Friday, leader of the group John Brown Hammond said Dr Bawumia and the NPP are only throwing dust into the eyes of Ghanaians with their claims.

“The Togolese Electoral secretariat is very particular about those documents. The register is a legal thing and not even the political parties here have access to them.

“We are challenging him to produce the register which he used to identify that there is 76,000 Togolese on the Ghanaian register. We are tenants with our neighbors and what he is doing can provoke them to evict us,” Hammond lamented.

Dr Bawumia and the NPP have insisted that the current voters' register is compromised and cannot be used for the 2016 elections.

He claims the register and the whole Electoral Commission database has been compromised to the extent that no audit can make the register clean. The party believes the register has been padded with names of some West African nationals and must be changed to engender confidence ahead of the 2016 polls.