Ghana: Voter registration exercise impressive at Ledzekoku

 

The nationwide ongoing limited voter registration exercise embarked upon by the Electoral Commission is progressing smoothly in the Ledzekoku Constituency of the Greater Accra Region.

A tour of a number of registration centres in the constituency by the Ghana News Agency (GNA) on Thursday revealed that a large majority of people being registered were mostly in the age bracket of 18 and 19.

At the Neighbourhood Registration Centre at Teshie, Mr Daniel Mensah, officer in-charge, said the Centre recorded 34, 58, and 70 new registrations on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday respectively.

As at 1100 hours when GNA got there on Thursday morning, 20 people had been registered.

Mr Mensah said the exercise was moving on smoothly and attributed the lower figure recorded on day one to a printer breakdown.

Mr Benedict Clottey, Registration Officer at the East Akror Centre gave the newly registered figures for Monday, Tuesday and Thursday as 21, 37 and 36 respectively.

As at 1130 hours when GNA got there the Centre had registered 15 people.

He called for more public education through the mass media on the relevance of the nationwide exercise.

Mr Daniel Mensah Colman, Registration Officer of the Krobo One and Two Primary School Centre gave an account of the number of people registered as 52, 48 and 46 for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday respectively.

When GNA arrived at 1217 hours at the centre, 13 people had then been registered.

According to Mr Colman, the exercise had been very smooth without any hindrances.

Mr Daniel Tetteh, a newly registered voter said he was elated to have been registered, which would empower him to vote in coming national elections.

(GNA)