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The Minority in Parliament claimed that seven of the Electoral Commission’s Biometric Verification Devices (BVD) were missing, but the EC refuted their assertions.
On Tuesday, March 19, the Minority Caucus raised concerns over the stolen BVD machines. Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson, the Minority Leader, urged the Ghana Police Service’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to look into the situation as soon as possible.
The opposition voiced concern that the forthcoming general elections on December 7, 2024, might suffer greatly as a result of the stolen biometric devices.
“The Electoral Commission confirms that seven biometric devices are indeed missing. I urge the CID and the Ghana Police Service to immediately issue a statement giving us details of their investigations so far,” Dr. Ato Forson stated.
In a news conference on Wednesday, March 20, 2024, the Electoral Commission responded to the situation by stating that none of their biometric verification devices had vanished.
Just five of the EC’s computers are missing, according to Commissioner Samuel Tettey, who spoke at the press conference and is in charge of operations.
Every biometric verification device is safe and well-secured overall.
He emphasized that the stolen computers won’t affect the integrity of the 2024 elections and clarified that the missing laptops don’t contain any important information.
“To set the records straight, the commission recently undertook routine servicing of its biometric voter registration kits. It was during this maintenance that we discovered the theft of five laptops from the biometric voter registration kits not seven BVD as erroneously stated,”Mr. Tettey indicated.
He added that “For clarification, biometric voter registration kits which comprise a laptop, camera, scanner, and printer are entirely separated from the Commission’s registration data systems and are incapable of manipulating elections outcomes as suggested. These kits though crucial for voter registration, requires specific activation to function accordingly”.
Read the full statement from EC below:
Source: Ghanatodayonline.com
