EC to form committee to draw roadmap for ROPAA

The Electoral Commission is to set up a committee to draw a road-map for the implementation of the Representation of the People Amendment Act (ROPAA).
The working group, which will be made up of representatives of registered Political Parties and Civil Society Organisations in the country are to undertake nationwide consultations to defined modalities, scope and timelines for the implementation of ROPAA.
The decision was taken at an Inter Party Advisory Committee,IPAC, meeting held yesterday.
The ROPAA law seeks to empower eligible Ghanaian abroad to vote in national elections.
However successive governments have failed to ensure its implementation, since its passage in 2006.
Last year an Accra High Court ordered the Electoral Commission to implement ROPAA within 12 months, after a suit was brought before it by some Ghanaians living abroad.
The EC now appears ready to implement the law with the setting up of the committee however some people have raised concerns over the committe to be set up.
The EC Chairperson, Mrs. Jean Mensah, noted that other decisions taken by IPAC included the postponement of the second phase of the Limited Voters Registration and the planned Continuous Voters Registration at all the District Offices.
The statement announced the Exhibition of the 2016 and 2018 Provisional Voters Register (PVR), from the the 25th- 31st October 2018 at all the polling stations of the carved out areas for the referendum.
It is said, the exhibition will start at 7 am and end at 6 pm on each day, including Saturdays and Sundays.