Sam George secures court injunction to stop EC’s training workshop

The Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram in the Greater Accra region, Sam Nartey George has secured an injunction on the EC’s training workshop on the upcoming voter registration exercise.

“It is hereby ordered that the respondent and all persons claiming through the respondent refrain from holding the workshop or conference scheduled to take place at the Escape Hotel Prampram from the 24th of April 2020. The order is effective from the 24th of April 2020 to 27th of April 2020

In a memo signed by the EC’s Director of Training, Michael Boadu, all Regional Directors were asked to submit their regional reports on the 2019 District Level Elections (DLE) as part of the requirements for the programme.

The EC was planning to hold a national planning meeting and key trainers training workshop to prepare and plan for the upcoming registration exercise.

“The meeting will be attended by Commissioners, HQ Directors, Regional Directors, Deputy Regional Directors, Deputy HQ Directors, and some HQ senior officers. Participants will arrive a day before the meeting and leave a day after,” portions of the memo read.

But those plans will now have to be halted following the granting of an interim injunction against the proposed workshop.

The MP described the decision to undertake the training as unfortunate, a flagrant disregard for the law, and an abuse of legal reasoning.

“I have just secured an injunction against the Electoral Commission’s decision to hold a workshop at the City Escape Hotel in my Constituency. That decision by a Commissioner who is a lawyer and her deputy who is a political science University Don is most unfortunate as it is a flagrant disregard for law and an abuse of legal reasoning.”