NPP Denies Bussing People To Registration Centres At Damongo

The New Patriotic Party in the Damongo Constituency has denied allegations by the MP Hon Mutawakilu that the NPP is busing people to the constituency to take part in the registration exercise.

According to the NPP Constituency Chairman Alhaji Adam Braimah, "the said allegation is palpably false and baseless".

He disclosed that the NPP in the Savannah Regional Capital were following the due procedures of the EC and not busing people to the constituency as accused by its opponent:

"To date, only eligible voters have been registering in the Damongo Constituency. Some are resident and others are ordinarily resident, as dictated by the Constitutional Instrument regulating the ongoing registration exercise."

Alhaji Braimah believes that the NDC MP has lost the support of the people and would be voted out in the forthcoming elections:

"The good people of Damongo are feverishly registering to vote him out and, indeed, no amount of complaints and desperation will save him. He has failed in every aspect as an MP and the overwhelming majority of voters are saying enough is enough."

Alhaji Braimah also indicated that the opposition party agents have failed to follow due processes of law to lay their complaints but instead resort to violence.

"Admittedly, the NDC has resorted to violence in their attempt to stop people they perceive to be ineligible from registering contrary to the laid down legal procedure which requires a person to resort to a challenge through the Challenge Form if there is suspicion of ineligibility.

Meanwhile, this allegation of busing people to register at the constituency has led to some physical confrontation between the two parties.

Narrating the cause of the confrontation in an exclusive interview, an NPP member Abu Lansani said three final year students at the University for Development Studies were brought back for the exercise at a center where they completed in 2014.

He said one of the NDC agents who taught one of them ICT challenged the student he once taught at the school which ignited some arguments and subsequent assault.

Mr. Lansani also noted that two registration centres Kurabaso Polling Centre and PB Bungalows where the NDC are raising the allegations are strongholds of the NPP.

However, a team of military personnel has since been deployed to the exercise to augment the work of the Ghana Police Service.