Member of Parliament for Builsa South Constituency, Clement Abas Apaak, has expressed reservations regarding what he sees as a departure from the Electoral Commission's (EC) mandated responsibilities.

He has pointed out that the EC has not followed the prescribed procedures during the ongoing voter registration process.

Apaak clarified that the EC's primary duty, as outlined in the nation's laws, is to facilitate the registration of eligible citizens who are 18 years and older and in sound mental condition at their own convenience.

“They should be able to register in a manner that is not going to dehumanize them and call their dignity in question.”

Dr. Apaak stressed that the various problems related to the voter registration process are undermining the rights of Ghanaian citizens and called for these issues to be resolved.

During an appearance on JoyNews' Newsfile program on Saturday, he pointed out the specific difficulties encountered in his own constituency and expressed his disappointment at the challenges in mobilizing eligible youth to register for the upcoming elections.

The Builsa South MP firmly asserted that the actions of the Electoral Commission were not in compliance with the law.

“The Electoral Commission is being unlawful, honestly because if you look at the law, the C.I. the constitution, the mandate of the EC itself and the right to vote and the fact that one is entitled to be registered to vote, you juxtapose that with the EC’s posture and what we’re being told, the EC is breaking the law, the EC is being lawless and in fact, the EC is acting contrarily to what the framers of the constitution intended it to do.”

“The EC seems to have a penchant for imposing their understanding, their interpretation and their perspective of what is a challenge and what is not on we the people who have the constitutional mandate to enjoy the right.

“You don’t decide whether I should register this time to participate at the district level elections or wait to register later on to participate in the national election. That is not your decision to make. Your job is to make it possible for me to register,” he stressed.

The Builsa South MP added that it is not too late for the EC to do the right thing and urged them to expand the voter registration by devolving the registration centres from their district offices to other electoral areas.

“If you are to do that, you will remove many of these impediments”.