EC needs ?90 billion for cameras alone...

? AND ?1.6 BILLION FOR INDELIBLE INK

Dr. Kwadwo Afari Gyan, Chairman of the Electoral Commission (EC) has estimated that at the current cost of $500 each, the commission would need ?90bn to procure cameras for all the 21,000 electoral areas across the country for the compilation of new voters? register.
Speaking at a day?s training seminar for party representatives and journalists on the voters registration exercise, he said funding was one of the main problems the commission faced.
He said, however the commission would manage to make do with the 2,000 cameras at hand to cover the entire country.
Some 84,000 extra hands would be engaged to assist in the registration who he said had to be trained at extra cost to ensure that they grasped the know-how, adding ?that is why we say elections are expensive.
Dr. Afari-Gyan called on the political parties not to shirk their responsibility of educating their followers to do the right things in order to alleviate the EC?s burden.
On the use of indelible ink, he said ?1.6bn has so far been spent for importation, adding that in advanced countries such as Britain and America, ink was never used as part of the electoral process.

? AND ?1.6 BILLION FOR INDELIBLE INK

Dr. Kwadwo Afari Gyan, Chairman of the Electoral Commission (EC) has estimated that at the current cost of $500 each, the commission would need ?90bn to procure cameras for all the 21,000 electoral areas across the country for the compilation of new voters? register.
Speaking at a day?s training seminar for party representatives and journalists on the voters registration exercise, he said funding was one of the main problems the commission faced.
He said, however the commission would manage to make do with the 2,000 cameras at hand to cover the entire country.
Some 84,000 extra hands would be engaged to assist in the registration who he said had to be trained at extra cost to ensure that they grasped the know-how, adding ?that is why we say elections are expensive.
Dr. Afari-Gyan called on the political parties not to shirk their responsibility of educating their followers to do the right things in order to alleviate the EC?s burden.
On the use of indelible ink, he said ?1.6bn has so far been spent for importation, adding that in advanced countries such as Britain and America, ink was never used as part of the electoral process.