nteresting .. DISSIDENTS POP UP IN EC FRIDAY, 14 JUNE 2013 05:34 JOHN HITS: 401 Unassailable information reaching your authoritative New Crusading GUIDE reveal that in the lead-up to the 2012 elections, during the elections, and collation of results, pockets of rebellious activities manifested over procedures – even at the level of Director and Deputy Directors on the corridors of the EC. The issue, our sources indicated, had to do with unsigned collation documents, including so-called pink sheets and Returning Officers/Presiding Officers forms, particularly with regard to the collation of presidential figures. The silent wave of protest was the basis of EC workers, including top level staff, providing documents and information to agents in the opposition for investigative and legal action in line with electoral redress laws of Ghana. Additionally, the refusal or inability of EC agents or officials not having their portions signed and initialed was a sign of protest to what they considered hand twisting mechanisms to interfere with the process. “We supplied the evidence free of charge, including the security envelopes,” one EC agent who is an NDC cadre, told the paper. “Anyone with a conscience at the EC is happy the case is being adjudicated in court. Even though the right of collating the figures for the Presidential is the right of the Deputy Commissioner and Commissioners, they are based on figures we lawfully supply them”. According to another female agent who offered support to the petitioners, the attempts at Weija and Adjoa Safo’s constituencies to manipulate the process gave them cause to question the integrity of the bosses because in areas “where PCs (Parliamentary Candidates) did not muster courage to track the presidential results, people without conscience could tamper with the figures and engineer results that would not reflect the popular will”, adding that they are ready to do more if the situation demanded. The New Crusading GUIDE, however, was told that since rebel group did not have the convenience of accessing all data to draw their own conclusions, they thought it “fair that anybody wishing to try his luck at the courts should be supported.” The youthful group, which membership is composed of all ethnic groupings, says it has come to stay in its efforts to help sanitize Ghana’s electoral systems through quiet whistle-blowing, underground activities. It is enabled in its activities by the fact of the circumstances that get up the interim National Electoral Commission (INEC) under former boss Justice Kingsley Nyimah, who resigned because he could not be forced to work against his convictions, and the current Electoral Commission (EC) under Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, Electoral Commissioner. The group is also non-partisan and nationalistic, with the leader coming from indigenous Accra and working under the code name OK. The next thing the group intends to do is lay bare facts about printing contracts, and expose corrupt officials to the media
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