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Political parties say the decision to prevent political parties from actively campaigning at the various prisons is unfair.According to them, inmates like all other electorates must have equal access to information to be able to make right choices in the December 2012 polls.This is the first time Ghanaian prisoners will be allowed to vote after Supreme Court ruled they must exercise their franchise.But the Prisons service says it cannot breach service regulations which bar political activities at security zones.Chairman of the Electoral Commission, Dr Kwadjo Afari-Gyan says the EC has little to do about the policy but can only make provision for biometric registration and voting.Dr Afari Gyan was addressing an IDEG sponsored roundtable discussion on how to secure credible elections.He said it was not only the prisoners who have stated categorically they don’t want any politician in their prisons, it was also in the ECOWAS Protocol, that politicians should not be allowed in orisons to campaign.The New Patriotic Party says it anticipated this challenge and is devising a strategy to extend its message to inmates.He said the party was relying on the electoral authorities to lay out modalities by which campaigning will be done.The Peoples National Convention totally opposes the decision to allow prisoners to vote.General Secretary of the party, Bernard Mornah told Joy News some of the prisoners must have committed electoral offenses for which reason they are in prison in the first place and that allowing them to vote only flies in the face of democracy.Mr contended it was wrong to allow prisoners for candidates they don’t know and over issues they don’t understand.
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