Dormaa East: EC Lauded For A Well Organised, Incident-Free Voter Registration Exercise

District Chief Executive of Dormaa East, Hon Emmanuel Kofi Agyeman, has commended the office of the Electoral Commission in his District for putting in mechanisms to ensure a peaceful and smooth process of the on-going new voter registration exercise.

The DCE made the commendation when he visited all the registration centers in Wamfie, the district capital on the 3rd day of the exercise.

The visit was to enable him to ascertain the progress of the compilation process, speak on COVID-19, educate registrants on the measures put forward to fight the disease and some of the laws enacted to enforce its protocols. It also gave him the opportunity to distribute sanitizers and nose masks to the people in and around the registration centers.

In almost all the centers, Hon Agyeman expressed satisfaction with the well-organized seated arrangements, the peaceful nature of the process, and the strict adherence of the COVID-19 protocols.

He commended the Supervisors for the good work, asking them to continue to the end of the exercise to ensure a transparent exercise

He visited the electoral office center meant for the aged and the PWD, the Anglican Primary A, Local Council A, R/C Primary A and B, Methodist Primary, SDA Primary, Presbyterian Primary A, Light International School, and Islamic School centers all in Wamfie.

He was accompanied by the presiding member, some assembly staff, and the military.

In a brief message at the various centers, the Hon DCE thanked the registrant for their cooperation and for coming out in their numbers to register. He also commended them for such an act of patriotism, adding that such an act of concern and interest in national issues, facilitates national development, hence the need for Ghanaians to cultivate self-motivation towards contributing to the development of the nation.

He emphasized that the coronavirus is real and very threatening and explained that though the district has not recorded any case of the disease, it would still be wise for citizens to live in carefulness to avoid it. The DCE charged the people to take their destinies into their own hands by protecting themselves against the disease. He as well emphasized the safety protocols and asked the people to support one another in this era of coronavirus.

Meanwhile the Deputy District Electoral Supervisor, Mr. Richmond Amponsah said, it is expected that about 35000 people would have registered by the close of the exercise. In all, there are 82 polling centers grouped into 17 clusters to handle the exercise throughout the district. He was grateful to God the first phase has been incident-free and successful.