Give EC free hands to operate-Fellowship

The Ho Christian Women Intercessors Fellowship has appealed to the government to give the Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC) a "hands-free" room to operate.

Government, the Fellowship stressed, should also "make sure that it meets all her commitments and obligations to the EC".

The appeal was contained in a nine-point statement read by Rev. Mrs Dinah Abbey-Mensah, Leader of the Fellowship, at one of the series of prayer sessions towards a peaceful elections held in Ho on Saturday.

The statement said if government stayed "very clear from the electoral procedure, no one would have any reason to make allegations and accusations to challenge the integrity of the polls."

The statement congratulated the EC on the "successful biometric registration exercise", trusting that it (EC) would in similar manner organize a free and fair elections come December.

It called on the security services to discharge their duties "on neutral and non-partisan grounds" and that the security personnel should be "firm, fair and just.

The statement also had a word for the Judiciary, politicians, political parties, the youth, electorate, religious bodies and the media, that each grouping should play its role commendably.

Rev. Mrs Abbey-Mensah said the Fellowship was mindful of the result of conflicts on women and children and that it would continue to support democracy, national stability and peace.

Dr Archibald Letsa and Mr. Benjamin Kpodo, Parliamentary Aspirants for the New Patriotic Party and the National Democratic Congress respectively in Ho, who were invited to the session failed to attend with the Progressive Peoples Party (PPP) being the only political party represented.**