Contrary to the claims by the Minority Caucus in Parliament over missing Biometric Verification Devices(BVDs) at the Electoral Commission, the Deputy Chairman of the Commission in charge of Corporate Services Dr. Bossman Asare has explained that all the verification machines as mentioned above are still intact except for some five laptops which are actually reported missing.
The EC’s press conference yesterday was to allay the fears expressed by the Minority that the “stolen” BVDs could have a dire consequence on the upcoming general elections in December.
The Minority had further asked the Criminal Investigations Departmenmt(CID) to promptly investigate the matter.
But, speaking at the press conference yesterday Dr. Bossman reacted to the Minority’s claims assuring that none of the biometric verification machines had gone missing
However, the Commissioner in charge of Operations of EC, Mr. Samuel Tettey who also addressed the press conference indicate that it is rather five laptops which have no serious information are missing and that all the verification machines are intact and well secured.
He stressed that the missing laptops do not have any sensitive information and will not impact the integrity of the 2024 elections.
“To set the records straight, the commission recently undertook routine servicing of its biometric voter registration kits. It was during this maintenance that we discovered the theft of five laptops from the biometric voter registration kits not seven BVD as erroneously stated,”Mr. Tettey indicated.
He added that “for clarification, biometric voter registration kits which comprise a laptop, camera, scanner, and printer are entirely separated from the Commission’s registration data systems and are incapable of manipulating elections outcomes as suggested. These kits though crucial for voter registration, requires specific activation to function accordingly”.