Otumfuo urges GBA to join debate for new voters’ register

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu has urged the Ghana Bar Association to contribute to the national debate on a new national voters’ register and also suggest legal ideas towards electoral reforms to ensure credible and free, fair general elections in 2016. 

Otumfuo Osei Tutu made the call at the ongoing national conference of the Ghana Bar Association in Kumasi. 

He said the response to calls for reforms in the country’s electoral system by the Supreme Court Judges who sat on the 2012 election petition has been slow, a situation he described as worrying. 

He has therefore tasked the legal body to assist the Electoral Commission in discharging its duties in this direction, especially now that it has one of its own, Mrs Charlotte Osei as EC Chair.

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