The Member of Parliament for Tamale North Constituency, Alhassan Suhuyini has accused the Electoral Commission of focusing on trivial matters instead of focusing on providing adequate tools for her workers.
He pointed out that during the last district-level election, voting materials arrived very late and some equipments were not even functional upon arrival.
Thus the EC needs to focus on providing proper tools and equipment to for workers and fix all malfunctional equipment.
“In my constituency for example, in one electoral area they voted till 2am, materials arrived late, the equipment still malfunctioned and you are not dealing with that,” he said on the AM Show.
“Electoral Commission is majoring on minor things and minoring on major things” he added.
He mentioned that some officers in the Electoral Commission were given vehicles, but were denied of funds for its maintenance.
“There are so many officers that I know that were given vehicles, pickups in 2020, have not been serviced. They have not been given money for servicing at all and we are in 2024. They sent only two spare tyres to them, does a vehicle use two tyres?
“Sending them two tyres for just one pickup to run in the constituency when is election time, they don’t get their fuel on time, nothing.
“During the limited registration exercise, when colleagues and I went around the district offices, in some cases we had to give money for them to buy credit, to be able to power their offices. These are basic things.
“Despondency is at the highest level today at the Electoral Commission. Workers don’t feel motivated to work because they are not even given the basic tools to work, and these are the things you need to fix as the leader of that institution,” he added.