REQUEST FOR TIME EXTENSION TO IMPLEMENT THE ROPAL ACT NEXT YEAR JANUARY, AN ATTEMPT TO DENY ALL THE DIASPORA WAITING TO VOTE AGAINST NANA ADDO FROM VOTING

The incompetency and irresponsibility of Jean Mensa is getting out of hand and must be condemn with the contempt it deserves.

The chairperson of the electoral commission is indeed working tirelessly to satisfy Nana Addo and the her beloved party the Npp but not mother Ghana.

From all indications, starting from the way the former EC boss was sacked, how Jean Mensa a well known Npp member got appointed and what happened at Ayawaso west wuogon by-elections, one could believe that, Jean Mensa is ready to lead this country into a serious chaos and we must be serious as a nation and call her to order.

The *ROPAL* act was formulated and approved by parliament for the people of Ghana leaving outside the country (diaspora) to come and vote in every election without paying the prices of international travelling fares.

The 1992 constitution provided every Ghanaian with a political right to vote and be voted for, hence any attempt to deny the diaspora is an infringement on their political rights and that is subjecting the 1992 constitution.

The former EC chairperson was almost at the point of implementing the *ROPAL* act before her unjust removal from office, it is quiet upsetting hearing the current EC boss engaging Ghanaians in a blame game that, her antecessors management crisis will compel her to do some corrections so she needs 12months to do the corrections for the *ROPAL* act to be implemented in January next year which will be after elections, meanwhile in a previous court ruling on the subject matter, the EC was given 68 days to implement the *ROPAL* act.

The electoral commission chairpersons appeal to court to extend the implementation time to next year after elections is a comprehensive and deliberate attempt to cease and deny the diaspora and other international businessmen who always demonstrate against Nana Addo for his higher importation levies, bogus paperless system at the port and the excruciating depreciation of the Cedi on daily basis upon the bragging and rattling of Bawumia, from voting, knowing very well they will vote against the insensitive and reckless government of the Npp led by Nana Addo.



The diaspora deserves to enjoy their political rights as Ghanaians and must not be denied by the Npp woman Jean Mensa from voting at all.

The court must not hesitate to let the electoral commission chairperson face the rigours of the law when she failed to cooperate with the decision and orders of the court and the court must also not consider the extension of time for the implementation of the *ROPAL* act, it is a pressure on the EC chairperson coming from the Npp leadership and the presidency.

Finally I want to let the president Nana Addo beware that, if he could sack Madam Charlotte Osei for incompetency as claimed, then he should as a matter of urgency sack Jean Mensa for showing a gross super incompetency by failing to know the difference between a registration of Ghanaians working at the embassies or on scholarship to vote and a *ROPAL* policy meant to help the diaspora travel to Ghana to vote without paying the prices of international fares when coming, in her understanding of the 2011 report on the *ROPAL* act.

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*Abraham Boafo*

*An NDC activist*

*0247726369*