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Only NIA can validate voter roll - Nduom

Any attempts to compile or verify the voters’ register will be fruitless unless it is based on information from the National Identification Authority (NIA), founder of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom has suggested.

“Any voters’ register that is not put together based on the NIA database is not correct and will not be correct,” he said.

Various opposition parties and some pressure groups are clamouring for the validation of the voters’ register ahead of the November polls. To Dr Nduom, the process will be futile if there is no proper benchmark to which the process will be based.

He holds the opinion that the only body mandated by law to determine the nationality and particulars of any individual is the NIA and the EC has no authority over that.

In an interview with Emefa Apawu on Class FM’s 505 news programme on Friday 15 April 2016, Dr Ndoum said: “There is no such thing as cleaning the register. What are you going to clean it against?” h asked.