Ghana Post Elections

The Ministry of Monitoring and Evaluation will from today, 14 January 2020 open its maiden result fair to enable Ministries, Department and Agencies interact with citizens, civil society and the media to explain progress of implementation and achievements of government’s flagship programmes and other strategic interventions. To be held at the Accra International Conference Centre (AICC) the government’s flagship programmes including the Planting for Food and Jobs under the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, One District-one-Factory under the Ministry of Trade and Industry would have a booth to engage the public on their milestone. In each of the booth, the participating agencies would display infographics, pictures, videos and relevant information of projects, where they started, the processes involved, level of implementation, sustainability and its short, medium and long-term impact. The three-day event is on the theme: “Delivery results for citizens work in progress”. The gov...

The National Commission on Civic Education (NCCE) will this year organise debates for all presidential and parliamentary candidates to enable them share their propose policies with the public. For the Presidential debate, the country would be zoned into three, and that of the Northern would be held in September, the Middle in October and the Southern belt in November. Speaking at a media engagement in Accra on Thursday to share the Commission’s year plan, Madam Josephine Nkrumah, Chairperson of the NCCE, said the debate for parliamentary candidates would be staged in all the 275 constituencies. The programme line up seeks to shape the civic conscience of the public, increase participation in governance, and preach tolerance, especially in the electioneering year. This year’s programme line up is on the theme: “The Future of Ghana is in my Hands” and it seeks to appeal to the hearts and minds of the public to put Ghana first in all their endeavours. Madam Nkrumah said the Comm...

Why does Ghana need to discard existing voters’ register and prepare a new one almost every four years when there are presidential and parliamentary elections? For some time now, we have been repeatedly told by successive governments since 1992 of the need to have new voters’ register. For that reason, huge sums of money are spent in engaging what they told us to be expert companies who were to give us registers which could be reliable. What has happened to technology? All last three of four registers were captured by computers and stored in databases, so we were told. So, what has happened to the databases? Has the word ‘technology’ vanished from Ghana’s (Government and Electoral Commission (EC) vocabulary or government and EC have never heard of it? The understanding they made us to have was that, with the capture of information unto the databases, those who turn 18 years at any given time could just walk to any EC district office to register to vote and their names would be ...