General Secretary of NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has described the country’s laws on political party financing and campaigning as vague and called for it to be strengthened.
He said the laws must be expanded to set limits of funding for every parliamentary candidate during an election and also demand their sources of funding. Additionally, he called for a review of the assets declaration law.
Mr. Asiedu Nketia made the call at Winneba yesterday at the 38th anniversary of the 31st December Revolution. He also called for a second look at the chunk of money spent on internal elections of political parties saying sufficient budget must be made available to the Electoral Commission to organize and supervise such elections
This, he said, would stop political parties from charging filing fees to help reduce the cost of seeking political position and ultimately reduce corruption and the monetization in the body politic of the country which has made politics very expensive.