Election 2024: NDC blows alarm bells over EC’s YASARKO deal

Dr Omane Boamah, the Director of Elections and IT of the National Democratic Congress, NDC, has expressed concerned about the EC’s contract with YASARKO to print ballot papers. He questioned the due diligence of the EC in awarding the contract to YASARKO.

According to Dr Omane Boamah, the NDC’s ‘Eagle Eye’ project which has a team of agents and supervisors monitoring the ballot printing process has uncovered that YASARKO has not printed a single ballot paper since the process started. He alleged that the company has been relying on excuses to avoid its mandate.

The former Communications Minister said the NDC monitoring team is ensuring that none of the contracted companies prints more than the mandated number. This he said is because the party believes YASARKO outsourced their contract to a third party hoping that the others would print surplus for them to meet their obligation.

Read Omane Boamah’s post below.

What due diligence did the Electoral Commission conduct before appointing YASARKO to print elections materials?
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I’m proud of our vigilant NDC Agents and Supervisors pursuing the #EAGLEEYES project to ensure the ongoing printing of ballot papers meets the highest standards possible.

Because of their #EAGLEEYES, one of the companies contracted by the Electoral Commission to print ballot materials must lose their contract. Since printing commenced, YASARKO printing company has not been printing. Excuses upon excuses…

Total waste of our resources as we keep deploying NDC Agents and Supervisors three times a day on a continuous and sustained 24-hour cycle.

What due diligence did the Electoral Commission conduct before appointing YASARKO to print?
If any company (and the Electoral Commission) believes they won the printing contract not based on current capacity and competence but the company’s strategy was to win the contract by fair or foul means, OUTSOURCE and eventually smuggle the ballots printed elsewhere into the system, the culprits must be joking!

They must be joking because our #EAGLEEYES team does not sleep! Our Agents and Supervisors Richard Jakpa (the former Army Officer who exposed Godfred Dame, the Attorney General, in the Ambulance trial), Lawyer Natongmah, Atamudzi, Malik and their other gallant colleagues among others (invisible) are doing the Lord’s work.

Additionally, because of their #EAGLEEYES companies printing excessive ballot papers (overs), over and above the allowable excess have been made to reduce their “overs”.

Furthermore, there’s firm and irrevocable agreement between the companies and the NDC printing Agents and Supervisors that each of the overs will be counted and accounted for before shredding!

Gallant NDC #EAGLEEYES Agents and Supervisors, we urge you to continue with the noble struggle to unseat this irredeemably corrupt and incompetent Akufo-Addo. Bawumia government.
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