The Fulani community in Ghana has claimed that their members are being denied their rights to be registered in the ongoing compilation of voters register on the basis that they are not Ghanaians.
The General Secretary for Tabita Pulakuu International- Ghana Chapter Mr. Yakubu Musah Barry said they observed through monitoring of the exercise that some people particularly Electoral Commission officials and party executives of both New Patriotic Party and National Democratic Congress are preventing eligible Fulani residents in Ghana from registering in the ongoing registration exercise especially in the Eastern Region, Northern Region, Savannah Region, North East, and Upper East Region.
“Our attention has been drawn by some of our Fulani communities in a part of the country that they are been denied Access/participation in the ongoing voter’s registration exercise which is has been approved by the supreme court, Electoral Commission and gazetted by parliament.
We’ve been notified that the requirements are:
1. Passport
2. National Identity Card (Ghana Card) is issued by the NIA.
3. Two persons to guarantee for 1 person after filling his or her guarantee form and can do so for 10″.
He added “now as a Ghanaian Fulani who has all these requirements, why should EC or any political party representative deny anyone their civil rights hence disenfranchising them? He asked.
He continued that “despite the press statements that we will sue anybody who will deny our people of their rights and that’s exactly what we are going to do, we will take them on, be it EC officials or any political party who tries to deny our people” he lamented.
The Fulanis Community raised similar concerns during the Ghana Card registration exercise that their members were being denied right to register though they are qualified Ghanaians.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Obed Ansah
