{"id":8889,"date":"2024-05-21T08:04:36","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T08:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=8889"},"modified":"2024-05-21T08:04:36","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T08:04:36","slug":"sall-disenfranchisement-imani-got-it-wrong-dr-quaicoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=8889","title":{"rendered":"SALL disenfranchisement: IMANI got it wrong \u2013 Dr. Quaicoe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr. Serebour Quaicoe, the Director of Electoral Services at the Electoral Commission, has insisted that the Commission did not in any way disenfranchise the people of Guan District (SALL) in the Oti region.<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to Dr. Quaicoe, the President of IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe got it wrong in his allegations against the Commission for disenfranchising the people of Santrokofi, Akpafu, Lolobi and Likpe (SALL).<\/p>\n

Residents of SALL only voted in the 2020 presidential election and did not vote in parliamentary elections. This decision was contained in a statement from the EC on December 6, 2020, the eve of the general election.<\/p>\n

In what appears to be a media war between the Commission and IMANI, the EC rejected the allegations, indicating that Parliament has to be blamed for the lack of representation for SALL constituents.<\/p>\n

Mr Franklin Cudjoe, in a rebuttal described EC\u2019s response in a May 14 statement as a display of \u201cbrazen dishonesty\u201d.<\/p>\n

But Dr. Quaicoe speaking on TV3\u2019s Hot Issues<\/strong> on Sunday, May 19, underscored that the Commission could not allow the SALL residents to engage in wrongdoing in voting for a parliamentary candidate for the Buem constituency.<\/p>\n

Dr. Serebour Quaicoe speaking on Hot Issues<\/p>\n

This, he said, is because one Member of Parliament cannot represent two districts, stressing that the EC didn\u2019t want to \u201ccompromise the integrity\u201d of the 2020 elections.<\/p>\n

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Ignore Franklin Cudjoe\u2019s false narrative; we didn\u2019t disenfranchise SALL residents \u2013 EC<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIn 2020 they couldn\u2019t vote because a district has been created they didn\u2019t have constituency, if you wanted them to vote then they could have voted for their mother constituency which was Buem\u2026an MP cannot represent two districts so Buem has Jasikan as district so the Buem MP is a member of the Jasikan district and the same MP cannot be a member of Guan district because they two separate districts,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Asked whether the Guan district was operational, which didn\u2019t allow SALL residents to vote in Buem, he retorted, \u201cOnce it has been created, it comes into effect.\u201d<\/p>\n

Furthermore, Dr. Quaicoe explained that \u201cOn the 9th Novemebr 2020 Parliament passed an L.I. that established Guan district, the Commission was written to on the 10th of November. The Commission started taking steps to have a C.I. for a constituency to be put in place.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe drafted our C.I. sent it to the Attorney-General\u2026when we wrote to the Attorney-General, it came to our attention that Parliament is on recess, they went on recess the very day they passed the law and came back after the elections, so there was no way we could have even fulfill the 21 sitting days for\u00a0 the C.I. to be passed,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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The post SALL disenfranchisement: IMANI got it wrong \u2013 Dr. Quaicoe<\/a> first appeared on 3News<\/a>.<\/p>

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