A Wa High Court presided over by the Wa Supervising High Court judge in the Upper West Region, Justice Yussif Assibey has quashed the decision of the District Registration Review Officer (DRRO) of Nandom to delete the names of 197 persons from the voter’s register.

The DRRO of Nandom on September 20, 2024, ordered for the names to be deleted from the electoral roll claiming that the 197 applicants failed to attend the review hearing when they were asked to.

The order to delete the names was given following a complaint from party agents that they were not residents of Nandom, dead or foreign nationals.

The applicants unsatisfied with the ruling took the matter to the Wa High Court praying the court to quash the decision.

The DRRO explained that they gave the order for the names to be deleted from the electoral register after they refused to attend the review hearing after they were notified through phone calls.

The applicants, who were represented by a lawyer, Sylvester Isang strongly denied the assertion.

When the DRRO was pinned to the wall he could not ascertain his claim about the phone notification.

The Supervising Wa High Court judge, Justice Yussif Assibey while evaluating the case noted that since the applicants didn’t have the opportunity to defend themselves, they were unfairly treated and for that matter, the action constituted a breach of natural justice.

He therefore quashed the order of the DRRO and ordered that the names of the 197 applicants be included in the voter’s register.

He also ordered the Electoral Commission of Ghana to issue all 197 with biometric identification cards to enable them to take part in the December polls.

There was no legal representation from the Electoral Commission nor the agents who first brought the case to the Nandom DRRO.