The most scandalous voter exposure in Ghana, but the moral society is calm

Opinions on Saturday, September 26, 2020

Columnist: Abena Benewaa

2020-09-26

Since the advent of the Fourth Republican Democratic Dispensation in Ghana, Ghanaians have never witnessed a voter screening exercise that has registered more than 21,000 missing names in a single district.

However, in the year 2020 (where life has become simpler due to technological advances), Ghanaians are witnessing such a high number of names missing from the Voter Registry, a massive level of electoral mismanagement, never seen before. nor recorded in our history.

Ghana’s democratic processes are undergoing their most brutal manipulation and assault. The snub of long-held consultative processes in the elections is so blatant now.

Ghana’s long-standing peaceful and orderly democracy, and the integrity of its elections and trust in the electoral management body (the Electoral Commission-EC) have been undermined by a new order of chaos, confusion and tension.

As the mismanagement of the 2020 electoral process gains notoriety and is now summed up into the most scandalous voter screening exercise of all time, it raises concern about how the Moral Society of Ghana – NGOs, CSOs, eminent personalities and the mainstream media have decided to become silent spectators, witnesses to the rape and savage attack against the hitherto envied democratic credentials of the country.

Indeed, it is inconceivable for the moral society to remain silent, feign neutrality and show disinterest, when a shameless injustice is being senselessly committed on such a large scale by a reckless Election Commission that is no longer independent but confirms with facts that it is being remotely controlled. .

Typically, the front of the so-called Eminent Group of elders, supposedly appointed to advise the new EC executive leadership team and offer them guidance, would have been the moral compass to turn to for corrections. But the constant mistakes and mismanagement of the EC during the period show that the eminent corps is nothing more than a big white elephant.

It’s all too obvious that noble personalities came together as a face-saving gimmick just to help shore up public trust in the EC, whose image has rapidly deteriorated. The idea of ​​impending men may have been a clever game that the new EC leadership and its payers played with the Ghanaian public.

One cannot help but be amazed that the noble personalities of pastors, imams, distinguished statesmen, and retired public servants, who were placed on that committee of eminent personalities, and have now become “Simpa Panyins,” still cling to their membership. Irrelevant. of the committee.

For nothing at all, I hoped that Nana Ato Dadzie, a former chief of staff under whose supervision Ghana witnessed its first democratic transition, would have reminded this EC leadership of how they have destroyed and eroded public trust and, as a result, announced their He resigns from that Committee of “Simpa Panyins”.

As things stand now, if there were not enough voices to straighten out the path of this arrogant, disrespectful and unfulfilled EC, the 2020 Ghana elections are destined to suffer chaos and rejection, with dangerous consequences.

As I listened on the radio to Zenator Rawlings, MP and daughter of a former president, shouting that more than 2,000 registered voters in her Klottey Korley constituency have been removed from the Voter Registry, I wondered what became of her father, Mr. Boom. The man who preached the Positive Challenge, as a tool to deal with situations, is another “Simpa Panyin” who does not see evil and does not speak evil in our government, because his NDC party is in opposition.

In Akan, we say, yes? opanyin tina fie, ma mb? fra wi nanka a, yes? Y? bu nanka wi fuor a, y? kan no Kate ho bi (if an old man sits apart for children to eat a python, he, the old man, will be counted among the python eaters).

In short: evil triumphs when good men become “Simpa Panyins”.