“Break your silence; honour your promise, read John 3: 16” – Kwaku Azar tells EC

A United States-based Ghanaian professor, Professor Kwaku Asare popularly known as Kwaku Azar has asked the Electoral Commission of Ghana to speak on the fate of the residents of the Guan district denied representation in the 2020 elections.

He has also asked the Commission to fulfill its promise and perform its constitutionally mandated duties to correct the development.

The professor again called on the EC to read John 3:16, for what reason, he did not mention.

Kwaku Azar made the comment in a Facebook post sighted by GhanaPlus.com on Friday, March 11, 2022.

According to him, it’s been 459 days already since the EC issued a statement announcing that the people of the Guan district namely Santrokofi, Akpafu, Likpe, and Lolobi otherwise known as SALL will not participate in the 2020 elections.

However, the Commission seem to have gone silence on what becomes of the people who currently have no representation in Ghana’s legislative house, thereby denying  them their fair share of the MP common fund, disabling them from having a say on matters affecting the country among many others.

Kwaku Azar, described the development as the cardinal sin of the 8^th Parliament.

“It has been 459 days since the EC issued this directive. Since then the Committee has embraced the culture of silence on the subject, allowing some of our citizens to go without representation, denying them their share of the MP common fund, disabling them from having a say on matters affecting the country, etc.

So on this 459th day, I call on the EC to break its silence, honor its promise, perform its constitutional duty, and above all to read John 3:16

#SALL is the cardinal sin of the 8th Parliament.

Da Yie!” Kwaku Azar’s Facebook post reads.

Resident of SALL did not vote in Parliamentary elections

Residents of Santrokofi, Akpafu, Likpe, and Lolobi , (SALL), communities within the newly created Guan district in the Oti Region were denied participation in the 2020 Parliamentary elections over boundary issues which arose from the creation of the six new regions.

A letter from the Electoral Commission communicating its decision to them said although, a district assembly had been created, a constituency was yet to be created hence eligible voters could only vote in the Presidential elections.

Source: GhanaPlus.com