There is a raging debate as to whether or not Ghana as a country needs a new voter’s register ahead of the 2020 general elections.
A lot of opposition parties have been fighting tirelessly and insisted that the new register is not a necessity while members of the ruling party and executives of the Electoral commission insist it is the only way to go if they will be any elections this year.
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Against this backdrop, Ghanaian actress Lydia Forson has joined the debate and said her piece in a statement sighted by zionfelix.net.
According to her, the determination of Electoral Commission’s to compile a new voter’s register by hook or crook is senseless.
Lydia Forson stated that she couldn’t fathom why the exercise must go on especially when the COVID-19 cases are on the rise.
She also wondered why as a country some of the leaders were willing to put the lives of millions at risk.
The ‘Side Chic Gang’ actress also indicated that even when Ghanaians were registering for the National Identification Card, many of them had to go through a lot of stress so she won’t allow her loved ones to go through this process.
Lydia Forson finally asked her fans not to do politics in her comments section because she was tired of that.
Read her full post below:
I will continue to say this over and over again that the electoral commission’s determination to do this does not make any sense to me.Perhaps I’m not as knowledgeable in this field and you’re free to educate me; but all I see is peoples lives being put in danger over something we don’t necessarily need. COVID19 is still living and growing with us, we don’t have vaccines or confirmed treatment, and although I don’t believe our lives should stop because of it, it’s also a period to make adjustments to survive it.
This isn’t an exercise of a few hundreds of people if it were I’d trust that it wasn’t going to be ask risk, but this is for millions of Ghanaians and there’s absolutely no way people safety can %100 guaranteed.
The election in itself is one we’re going to have to take even more precautions and not many would want to put their lives at risk if we don’t have a vaccine by then.Asking people at this period to register and then come back later to queue again to vote is really unfathomable.
I wouldn’t have too much of an issue if this process was going to be as seamless as it looks in these pictures; but we all know what it was like to even register for the National Identification Card, how stressful it was, the complications, waiting and toss around.
It’s almost like we don’t have a choice at this point, if you don’t go and register, you can’t vote, if you do, you could be putting your life at risk.How do I let my loved ones with underlying health issues do this, especially at a time when we’re recording more numbers.
Please don’t come and do NPP/NDC in the comments either- we’re tired.I genuinely want to understand why this is absolutely necessary, I really do.So let me hear from you.
