Voters register: Value human lives – Nduom tells govt

The Founder of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, has urged the government to prioritize the health of citizens over the need to conduct elections amid the threat of COVID-19.

The ongoing voter registration exercise has been a point of contention with observers warning it will contribute to a spike in cases of the virus.

Some health professionals in the country have written to the Electoral Commission asking it to pause the ongoing voter registration exercise until safer ways of conducting the exercise are identified to prevent further spread of COVID-19.

But speaking on GN Radio in the UK monitored by MyNewsGh.com, Dr. Nduom noted that the December polls are essential to Ghana’s democracy but not at the expense of human lives.

“An election is something that if necessary, we can do without but we cannot do without the human being in Ghana,” he said.

He added: “What will profit anybody to do well in an election and find out that all the people are sick or the people are not doing well and businesses are collapsing and so on and so forth.”

“So we must first take care of the health of the people,” Dr. Nduom stressed

Ghana as of July 5, 2020, had recorded 20,085 cases of COVID-19 with 122 fatalities. In addition, 14,870 persons have been discharged after treatment.

The Greater Accra Region has the most cases with 10,979, out of which 2,501 are active.