Former Director of Public Relations and External Affairs at the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC), Nana Yaa Jantuah, has stressed that a peace pact holds no value if fairness and equity are not present.In an interview on Kingdom FM, monitored by MyNewsGh.

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com, Nana Yaa Jantuah raised concerns over the delay of the special voting exercise for the Eastern and Western regions, originally set for yesterday but now postponed to Thursday, December 5, 2024. The delay, she explained, was caused by the recall of printed ballot papers for those regions.

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Although she acknowledged that political parties and candidates have signed a peace pact, Nana Yaa emphasized that fairness must be at the core of the electoral process for it to be meaningful.“If there is no equity and fairness, there is no peace.” She questioned how peace could be achieved when fairness is absent.

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She also suggested that political parties should not have signed the peace pact, stressing that only the Electoral Commission (EC) should have been responsible for it. Nana Yaa argued that the EC has the authority to either ensure peace or cause disruption.She cited several troubling incidents under the current administration, mentioning, “BVR machines and laptops are missing, and we have no idea where they are.

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”“Under her regime, District-level elections were conducted twice, there was confusion during the limited registration process, and in 2020, votes were counted five times after the elections were over.”

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