We will investigate the Electoral Commission when NDC is voted into power - Peter Otukunor

A former Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Dr. Peter Boamah Otukunor, has said that the next NDC government will institute an inquiry into the activities of the Electoral Commission.

According to him, the investigations will help unravel the reasons behind the disenfranchisement of the people of SALL.

Speaking on Okay FM's 'Ade Akye Abia' show, he explained that the Electoral Commission deliberately left out the people of SALL from voting, and an investigation into their activities will uncover the reasons behind such an act.

Article 47(1) makes clear the responsibility of the Electoral Commission in respect of the creation of constituencies: “Ghana shall be divided into as many constituencies for the purpose of election of members of Parliament as the Electoral Commission may prescribe, and each constituency shall be represented by one member of Parliament.”

Nowhere in the clauses of that article or in the Constitution is it provided that upon the creation of a district by the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, the Commission is to create a constituency.

If the Commission were minded to perform its “constitutional duty,” all it had to do was conduct the Parliamentary elections on 7th December 2020 on the basis of the constituencies that it had previously established for the 2016 elections, he added.

He also noted that it was wholly unacceptable that, rather than focus its attention on complying with Article 47 of the Constitution and using the existing constituency for voters in the SALL Traditional areas, the Electoral Commission went contrary to Articles 47(5) and (6) of the Constitution of the Republic of Ghana.

"The people of SALL must get justice for not being represented in Parliament in 2016," he maintained.