Pusiga EC Official Suspended For Unauthorised Voter Transfer

The Electoral Commission (EC) has assured that it will not shield any of its officers, both permanent and temporary, found complicit in any electoral malpractices and will always allow such persons to face the full rigours of the law.

The assurance followed alleged voter transfers which came to light during the exhibition of the provisional voters register.

The said transfers, was done without the consent of the affected voters from two polling stations in two constituencies in the Tamale South and one polling station in the Sagnarigu constituency to the Pusiga constituency in the Upper East region.

Per the provision of the law, the registered voter must be physically present to request for the transfer of vote to another polling station. 

"The transfer of vote can only be done at the district offices and requires the presence of the voter which must be verified using either his or her face or fingerprints," Deputy Chairman in charge of Corporate Services, Dr Bossman Asare, told a press conference in Accra on Monday.

He said after concluding it's preliminary investigations, the voters alluded to the fact that their voter ID cards were collected by one Haruna Muniru ostensibly for the processing of a loan. 

The said Haruna Muniru was in Police was arrested by the police last week and is currently on bail.

The investigation revealed that voter transfers were indeed effected for 38 individuals using the credentials of an EC official.Graphiconline