A Vice President of IMANI Africa, Bright Simons has said that he predicted last year that a good number of the base of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) will not turn out to vote in the 2024 general elections. However, he said, a political party’s base has layers, which together creates a “winning coalition”. The outer layer, he explained, can ...
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EC’s justification for excluding voter ID card is a plain absurdity – Bright Simons
Vice President of Imani Africa and technologist Bright Simons has stated that the justification of the Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC) that the old register contains names of unqualified persons so must be discarded for a new one is a plain absurdity. The Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC) explained to the Supreme Court that, in essence, the current register contains names of noncitizens and ...
Read More »Coronavirus: 600 contact tracers drop out over unpaid allowances – Bright Simons
Honorary vice president of policy think tank, IMANI Centre for Policy and Education, Bright Simons has revealed that 600 out of 900 trained contact tracers for the fight against Coronavirus in the country have abandoned their work due to ‘grievances’, adding that the government has been defaulting in paying their daily allowance of GHc150.00. According to Mr Simons, the government ...
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