Over 76,000 Togolese in Ghana’s voters’ register

The opposition New Patriotic Party is ratcheting up pressure on the Electoral Commission to compile a new voters’ register.

Presenting what the party calls the smoking gun, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, vice presidential nominee of the NPP, said tens of thousands of foreigners have found on the country’s electoral roll.

This, he said was discovered by an investigative team put together by the party to unravel the mystery behind the unusually high and statistically questionable voter population of 14 million, representing 56 percent of the total population.

Dr. Bawumia said, the team set out to compare Ghana’s voters’ register with neighbouring countries and the results were startlingly alarming.

With copies of the Togolese voters’ register and that of Ghana, the team used biometric facial recognition technology and found potential matches of 76,000 names on both registers.

These voters used the same names, have the same facial and other features on the voters’ registers of both countries, he asserted.

“This is just a sample; it is quite a lot as you will see; and it is quite amazing, it is quite amazing,” he told a partisan crowd at a press conference Tuesday.

More soon.

BY: Malik Abass Daabu