I feel like there is fear in the country and this is why no one is talking

Business magnate and leader of the New Force Movement, Nana Kwame Bediako, popularly known as Cheddar, has taken a swipe at the Akufo-Addo administration and the Electoral Commission over limited voter registration.

The Electoral Commission (EC) started this year’s limited registration on Tuesday, May 7, which ended on Monday, May 20.

The leader of the New Force, who also goes by the name “IamFreedom”, is experiencing problems with this exercise because, according to him, it is an attempt to disenfranchise the youth in Ghana in particular.

According to him, this registration exercise should have lasted a year instead of the 20 days it lasted.

Cheddar revealed that he sent a petition to the Election Commission and copied it to the Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin, the National Chief Imam and other relevant stakeholders, but his petition was treated with deafening silence.

According to him, the response from stakeholders to his petition shows abject cowardice on the part of the country’s leaders.

“I feel like there is fear in the nation and that is why no one is talking,” he exclaimed.

Nana Kwame Bediako warned the EC to review their notes and ensure that everyone who turns 18 is given the opportunity to register and exercise his or her right to vote in the December 7 polls.

“Democracy is what governs our nation, not dictatorship. I would like to take this moment to address this issue in Ghana and I say not with authority but with decency and civility that we must help our nation to know more about the kind of democracy in Ghana And then it should not be the politicians who to dictate to the government;

“Let us have the right to vote. Let us have the right to be able to register… we have the right. We have the right to vote when we are 18 and we should not be deprived of this opportunity and it will last another four years before we can vote,” he claimed in an interview on Peace FM’s ‘Kokrokoo’ show.