Make necessary arrangement for students to register- GES to school heads
The Ghana Education Service has directed all heads of senior high schools to make the necessary arrangement for eligible SHS student to register for the new voter ID cards.
With the Electoral Commission moving its equipment to SHS campuses across the country, the Management of GES, in a statement, has directed that all heads of schools under the supervision of regional and district directors to ensure that the necessary arrangements are put in place for the smooth take off of the exercise.
The schools have also been directed to put in measures to ensure strict compliance
with the COVID-19 health and safety protocols.
The EC granted the Ghana Education Service’s request to help qualified SHS students to register as covid-19 protocols bars boarding students from leaving their campuses.
The voter registration exercise in the schools has been scheduled for July 10 and July 11, 2020, respectively.
Throwing a word of caution before the commencement of the exercise, GES advised that political parties representatives assigned to observe, do so without the usual political drama that accompany such exercise.
The party wants the court to prevent the EC and its officials from “organising, conducting, and/or asking any steps in furtherance of registering Senior High School students or registering anybody for that matter on campuses of such senior high schools and second-cycle institution not gazette, published or contained in any notification in accordance with the Regulation 2 subsection (3) or any other Regulation or subsections of CI 91 as amended by CI 126 and or unless the said registration centres or school campuses are contained in the Gazette number 77 of Tuesday, May 26, 2020”.
The EC insists that it is not creating new registration centres, but has attached existing registration centres to the schools.
The Accra High Court is expected to hear the case on July 20.
Insanity at its apogee.