{"id":69288,"date":"2024-03-23T17:23:57","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T17:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/uncategorized\/omane-boamah-calls-for-unbiased-enquiry-into-ec-missing-bvr-kits"},"modified":"2024-03-23T17:48:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T17:48:09","slug":"omane-boamah-calls-for-unbiased-enquiry-into-ec-missing-bvr-kits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/omane-boamah-calls-for-unbiased-enquiry-into-ec-missing-bvr-kits","title":{"rendered":"Omane Boamah calls for unbiased enquiry into EC missing BVR kits"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Ghana. <\/strong><\/span>The Director of Elections and IT for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Edward Omane Boamah, has admonished the Electoral Commission (EC) to allow for a full-scale, unbiased and independent enquiry into the missing Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) kits for a free and fair election.<\/b><\/p>\n

The NDC minority in Parliament had earlier alleged that seven Biometric Verification Devices (BVDs) of the EC have gone missing. An allegation that the Commission denied in a press briefing on Wednesday, March 20.<\/p>\n

Dr. Bossman Asare, the Deputy Commissioner at the EC, said, \u201cThese allegations are not true. No BVD has been stolen. To set the record straight, the Commission recently undertook routine servicing of its Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) kits.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was during this maintenance that we discovered the theft of five (5) laptops from the Biometric Voter Registration kits, not seven BVDs as erroneously stated,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

However, Dr. Omane Boamah, in a Facebook post on Friday, March 22, attached a memo dated March 7, 2024, from the EC to some regional directors to facilitate the return of some Biometric Verification Devices to the EC headquarters.<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully, the Electoral Commission of Ghana can retrieve these un-returned Biometric Verification Devices (BVDs) very soon. Quite worrying! I also hope the Electoral Commission is ready and willing to allow for full scale unbiased investigations into the Biometric Voters Registration (BVR) kits that were stolen.\u201d<\/p>\n

The memo admitted that those BVDs have not been returned following their use in the 2023 district-level elections.<\/p>\n

Per the memo, 10 out of the 16 regions had some BVDs to return to the EC. The regions with outstanding BVDs included Eastern, Greater Accra, Northern, Volta, and Western, totaling 28 BVDs.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Ghana. The Director of Elections and IT for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Edward Omane Boamah, has admonished the Electoral Commission (EC) to allow for a full-scale, unbiased and independent enquiry into the missing Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) kits for a free and fair election. 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