The Electoral Commission has expressed satisfaction with the
level of public participation in the limited voter registration exercise which
ends today, despite low turnout. The exercise which begun last week is to
enable persons who could not register during the last exercise and those who
turned 18 years after 2012 to register. The exercise is taking place at
6,000 centers across the country. Head of Public Affairs at the EC
Christian Owusu Parry says the low turnout was expected. There have been reports of violence especially in the
Ashanti Region, prompting the Regional Police Commander to issue strong
warnings to leadership of the two main political parties there, the New
Patriotic Party (NPP) and the NDC to call their people to order. The two
major parties, NDC and NPP, suspended campaign activities to concentrate
on monitoring the exercise. Urging vigilance, the Ashanti regional NPP has
claimed that at least 60 NDC members were bussed from up North in Bawku to
Kumasi to register, a claim that has been refuted by the NDC. Meanwhile, Member
of Parliament for Manhyia North, Collins Owusu Amankwaa, is set to file
official complaint to the Electoral Commission over discrepancies he detected
during the exercise. He cited a registration centre at Buokrom, a suburb where
he alleges four people presented one passport with different pictures as a form
of identification.
Source: JOY
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