Deputy General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Obiri Boahen has rubbished extortionary claims by certain presidential candidates and civil society organizations on the recently announced filing fees for the upcoming polls in December.
The Electoral Commission’s (EC) announcement of filing fees of hundred thousand and ten thousand Ghana cedis respectively, for presidential and parliamentary candidates had stirred conversations in many political and social circles with many branding the figures involved as steep.
However, lawyer Obiri Buahen affirms that the right to governance is not cheap and thus, Ghana’s commendable democratic journey needs to be perpetuated with continuous financial investment.
“If you cannot pay the GHS100,000 get out, those who can mobilize will pay” he stressed.
He further established that political parties should embrace weightier issues of national concern such as pruning the national security sector from the reach of traitors and corrupt elements whose concealed agenda is to defame the sitting government.
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