Kumasi Magistrate court invalidates more than 1,000 voter transfers to Manhyia South constituency

A Kumasi magistrate court has invalidated more than 1,000 voter transfers to the Manhyia South constituency, ordering the Electoral Commission (EC) to take immediate steps to return all the affected voters to their original constituencies.

The court, Presided by Magistrate, Gyaawa Donkor, arrived at the verdict after a complaint brought before the court by Lawyer Nana Agyei Baffour Awuah, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Parliamentary Candidate for Manhyia South, after detecting that the transfers had been orchestrated by the National Democratic Congress (NDC), travelled its judicial course.

Mr Awuah, after uncovering the illegal transfers, had mobilised polling station executives and residents to raise objections, indicating that these transfers involved individuals who did not reside in the constituency.

The objections were formalised through the completion of Objection Forms in accordance with Regulation 23 of CI 91, which indicated that the transferred voters were not residents of the constituency.

On September 20, 2024, during the court’s hearing on the matter, landlords of the properties, which the affected voters used to register, testified before the court denying that the individuals lived at those addresses.

When the Ghana News Agency reached out to the NDC Parliamentary candidate, Ms Rita Gyamfua Amonu, after the court’s ruling, she opted not to comment on the matter.