Election Watch Ghana has petitioned the speaker of parliament, Alban Bagbin to intervene and ensure that both electoral and right to information commission provide details of procurement processes for ballot printing ahead of 2024 election.
According to them, the electoral commission employed entities that are affiliated to the NPP to print the ballot papers for the elections.
According to Election Watch Ghana during their follow up visit to the right to information commission, they observed that the electoral commission did not follow due process in selecting entities to print ballot papers.
The converner Eric Ewusi Arkoh agued that the companies, Bulk press and Assembly press who claimed to have won the contract to print ballot papers has a relationship with the ruling government raising conflict of interest issues.
He indicated that they invoked Article 18 of the Right to information Act 989 a month ago to demand specific information about the procurement contract by the Electoral Commission to some companies to print ballot papers for the December 7th election.
“We requested that the commission should produce the minutes of the meetings where political parties were informed about the selected companies. Mostly that is what happens, the political parties hold meeting with electoral commission and they are informed about companies that have won such contracts, unfortunately they have not given that so we want the date, the time, the venue and the rest of the political parties that attended that particular meeting”.