Member of Parliament for Tamale Central Alhaji Inusah Fuseini says what the Electoral Commission has filed in court as legal reasons for exclusion of the existing Voters ID card from the upcoming disputed voters registration exercise are rather moral lessons.
The EC on Monday filed a supplementary document at the Supreme Court outlining what it claims are the legal bases for its decision to exclude the voters ID card from the list of identification documents for the registration exercise.
The EC has reduced the identification documents to the passport and the Ghana card and has rejected the voters ID card and the birth certificates.
The Supreme Court at its first hearing of the case filed by the National Democratic Congress questioning the logic and legal basis of the EC for the exclusion among others ordered that the EC argues its legal bases for the decision and file it last Monday.
Speaking to Sena Nombo on the Gold Power Drive ahead of the second hearing of the Supreme Court, the Tamale Central MP said the EC’s document does not meet the test of legal arguments.
Alhaji Inusah Fuseini said the orders of the Supreme required the EC to provide the law from which it derives its authority to exclude the voters ID, what makes the use of the ID illegal and the court decisions that back the decision.
He was of the opinion that the EC’s “poisoned fruit” argument cannot qualify for a legal reason.
To justify its decision the EC impugned the two Constitutional Instruments passed to regulate the 2004 and 2012 elections.
The two CIs, CIs 12 and 72 were drafted and passed under the ambit of the EC but the current leadership of the Commission says the documents were flawed hence rendered the current biometric Voters register flawed.
The EC argues that the existing ID cards are fruits from a “poisoned tree” hence cannot admitted in the upcoming exercise.
Alhaji Inusah Fuseini however said the EC’s reasons could not represent a legal justification for the exclusion of the voters ID card.
He said the EC is only recounting the moral lessons it has learnt.
Source: Gold Power Drive/Radiogoldlive.com
