Ghana: Electoral Commission demands more cash for 2016 election

Madam Charlotte Osei, the chairperson of the Electoral Commission, has insisted that the commission would need GH¢1.2 billion for the 2016 general elections, although an amount of GH¢822 million has been approved by the government in this year’s budget for the EC.
She was in Parliament to defend the timetable for the elections and also affirm the EC’s preparedness for the elections, the EC chairperson indicated that the budget for her outfit is GH¢1.2 billion and that the government had released GH¢693 million which covers the first and second quarters of this year.

Mrs. Osei told the committee that the EC’s calendar for the polls had been revised in the light of the Supreme Court order on the NHIS card registrants. She noted that the revised calendar had been accepted by all political parties.