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03.05.2016 General News

We Will Ensure Successful Registration Exercise – NPP

By Yaw P. K. Manu
We Will Ensure Successful Registration Exercise – NPP
03.05.2016 LISTEN

Ag. General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Boadu has stated, that despite the many NDC-sponsored acts of intimidation and electoral malpractices that have characterized the on-going limited registration exercise, the NPP was determined to ensure that the exercise proceeds smoothly, and ends successfully.

According to him while the NPP was worried about the scale of violence and intimidation being masterminded by NDC government officials, and unleashed in the full glare of the Police, the NPP was not going to shirk its responsibility of ensuring that the voters’ register to be used in the November 7th election, would produce results, reflective of the people’s choice.

John Boadu made these assertions at a press conference at the Party Headquarters, to highlight some concerns of the Party, on the on-going Limited voter registration Exercise.

Cataloguing some of the Party’s concerns, the Ag. General Secretary mentioned wrong dates identified on ID cards, violence and intimidation of registrants with government officials’ involvement, and the continued attempts at registering foreigners and minors, among others.

Citing instances , Mr. John Boadu, who is also National Organiser of the NPP, referred to cases where issued Voter ID cards bore the date “April 27th, 2016”, even though the exercise commenced on “April 28, 2016”, thus invalidating such ID cards.

He also mentioned instances at the Gyenyase registration center in the Asokwa Constituency of the Ashanti Region, and Apioso Electoral Area in the Ejura-Sekyeredumasi constituency where NDC-hired Machomen on motor-bikes, and wielding machetes, scattered EC registration machines and threw stones to disrupt the registration exercise.

At Kukuom in the Asunafo South constituency of the Brong-Ahafo Region, Mr. John Boadu told the media that the Regional Minister, Hon. Eric Opoku brought in Machomen to attack NPP executives manning the polling station, while at Asutifi North, the wife of the DCE for the area brought in some Machomen who beat up the MP for the area, leading to his being rushed to the hospital.

He also expressed deep worry at the frantic efforts by the NDC to get minors and foreigners onto the Voters’ Register by assigning senior Party Officials to bus them to registration centers, and impress on EC Officials to have their names put on the voters register.

According to Mr. John Boadu,, most of these malpractices were happening in areas perceived to be strongholds of the Opposition NPP, and were happening in the full glare of the police, who almost always, fail to take action.

He therefore called on the security agencies, especially the Ghana Police Service, to rise up to their responsibility, by checking the naked abuse of power by NDC government officials, warning, that should the people lose confidence in the Police as an impartial enforcer of the law in the on-going exercise, it could be recipe for total chaos come November 7th, as the people would be bent on protecting the sanctity of their franchise, their own way.

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