Protesters Curses EC – Over New Voters Register

The Group protesting the compilation of a new Voters Register in the lead up to the 2020 general elections yesterday took their demands a notch higher when they poured libation invoking curses on the officials of the Electoral Commission (EC) headed by Jean Mensah.

Some members of the group calling itself the Inter-Party Resistance Against the New Voter Register poured libation at the headquarters of the EC in Accra, invoking dreaded deities to deal with any EC official who embarks on the registration exercise.

Holding two bottles of schnapps, a member of the group was captured in a video that has since gone viral on social media uttering some words and pouring the drink while other members clad in red and black dresses and headbands clapped their hands in agreement to the words.

As though that was not enough, some of the protestors threatened to picket at the commission’s headquarters overnight to drum home their demands.

The group had begun another demonstration through the streets of Accra to mount pressure on the EC which has set April 2020 to compile a new Voters Register.

The group has already held a protest in Tamale dubbed “Tikusayi demo” and another one in Kumasi known as the “Yennpini demo.”

The protestors resumed their suspended protest last week after the EC announced a date for the compilation of a new register, despite a planned meeting with the EC’s Eminent Advisory Committee.

At yesterday’s  march, the group who had marched from Kawkudi Park to the 37 roundabout, through to the Jubilee House had earlier presented a petition to the Presidency to stop the EC from compiling a new electoral roll for the December election.

The petition which was presented by the People’s National Congress Chairman, Bernard Monah; the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Chairman, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo and the General Secretary of the NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketia was received by Kwaku Afriyie, a Minister of State at the Presidency.

The protest briefly turned chaotic as protestors tried to force their way past the police in front of the Jubilee House.

The protestors were stopped by police at a barricade around the entrance of the seat of the Presidency.

But the protestors reportedly forced their way through and pushed down the barricade to allow them to move in front of the Jubilee House.

The protestors were seen to be moving at snail’s pace disrupting traffic during their march to the 37 roundabouts which took over an hour instead of about 30 minutes.