The Finance Ministry says it has released over 50 million Ghana cedis to the Electoral Commission to hold the district level elections for 2014.

The Electoral Commissioner Dr Kwadwo Afari Djan had early on told Parliament the Commission was unable to organise the district level election because of lack of funds.

"We have no intention of repeating a [piecemeal] election. I can assure you that if we receive timely releases of the funds there will be no tot-tot election.

"We did submit a tentative programme to Parliament indicating how we intended to proceed and I must tell you that that programme had been put on hold.

"So even though we had intended originally to do the election in October now it will be impossible to do that in October. It has to go beyond and that indicates the importance of timely releases of funds," Dr Afari Djan told Parliament in February.

But a Deputy Finance Minister, Casiel Ato Forson, told Joy News the Finance Ministry had already released funds to the EC by the time Dr. Afari Djan was talking to Parliament.

According to him, the EC presented a budget of some $24 million, the equivalent of some 55 million cedis and Ministry duly paid that amount as far back as January 28, 2014.

But in a reaction to Myjoyonline.com, the Director of Communications of the EC, Christian Owusu Parry said the amount received from the Ministry was only part of the budget presented.

He said never in the history of the EC have they received the entire budget sum presented for elections.

When asked how much the budget was and how much they were paid, Parry noted he was not in his office and did not have the figures currently before him but was unequivocal that the ministry did not provide the entire budget sum for district level election.