Majority Leader Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu has disclosed the Electoral Commission (EC) has received an amount of Ghc400 million out of its budget of GH\u00a2701 million for the upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n
Addressing a press conference, the legislator and leader of government business in parliament said the Special Budget Committee will pursue the Ministry of Finance to ensure the remaining GH\u00a2301 million is released to enable the EC to hold free and fair elections.<\/p>\n
\u201cGH\u00a2701 has been released but [the amount] actually received by the Commission [is] GH\u00a2400. The Committee will have to engage the Finance Ministry to put pressure on them, to do what is needful because, no thanks to this COVID-19 environment, let\u2019s face it, time is certainly not on our side,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The Major Leader and MP for Suame also indicated that the responses from EC when they appeared before the Special Budget Committee were convincing.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were convinced and persuaded by what they said to us; that as much as they want to see how the system functions if there is any problem, they will immediately replace them so that they [EC] will have smooth conduct of the registration,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have done some piloting and I think they were very successful in the piloting and they related to one incident in the Western Region. They said in the Western Region, on the second day, one of the machines malfunctioned and the reason was that the Electricity system and some disconnection and so the machine couldn\u2019t function which is why they have a back up of equipment when anything happens and immediately that machine was replaced.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut the manufacturers have about four technicians in the system who are teaching them (EC) how to immediately repair any of the machines that should malfunction but by and large, the others operated efficiently,\u201d Mr. Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu added.<\/p>\n
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