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Africa-Press – Ghana. <\/strong><\/span>Policy think tank, IMANI Africa has said that the statement issued by the Electoral Commission (EC) on the discovery of 10 obsolete biometric verification devices (BVDs) at a recycling company in Madina, is full of lies, half-truths, and pure fantasies.<\/b><\/p>\n

The Commission had indicated that these devices were legally auctioned and had been acquired before the 2012 elections.<\/p>\n

In a statement released on April 27, 2024, IMANI Africa questioned the EC\u2019s claims, particularly the number of BVDs auctioned off and the disposal of the remaining devices.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe EC\u2019s press statement was full of lies, half-truths, and pure fantasies. The EC says that only 10 biometric verification devices (BVDs) were \u201cauctioned\u201d. And that they \u2018found their way\u2019 into a recycling plant. The obvious questions that the media ought to ask are a) Before the EC jettisoned the existing system, it had told Parliament that it had implemented a \u20182 BVDs per polling station\u2019 policy and therefore had more than 70,000 BVDs in stock.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen in 2020, it proceeded to buy a brand-new set of biometric voter registration (BVR) kits with corresponding BVD kits and swore (despite video evidence collected by Bright Simons) that they never used any of the pre-existing devices in the 2020 mass voter registration exercise. Why then did they auction only 10 out of the over 70,000 devices? Why \u201c10\u201d, and not 5, 100, or 1000?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHow have the remaining tens of thousands of devices been disposed of? Ghanaians who have been paying attention to the EC\u2019s strange conduct under the current leadership know that the EC admitted to have lost some BVRs recently, but when pushed it insisted that they were only five in number. There is a clear pattern here. What exactly is going on?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Ghana. Policy think tank, IMANI Africa has said that the statement issued by the Electoral Commission (EC) on the discovery of 10 obsolete biometric verification devices (BVDs) at a recycling company in Madina, is full of lies, half-truths, and pure fantasies. 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