Late arrival of materials delay biometric voter registration

The late arrival and malfunctioning of biometric voter registration equipment affected the beginning of the exercise in some centres in the Ejisu-Juaben Municipality.

At the Ejisu Experimental Primary '1'[ Centre for example, no one had been registered 30 minutes after it officially began.

Mr Ibrahim Sadique, the Registration Officer, told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that they could not take delivery of the registration machines and other materials on time.

The situation was not any better at the CMB Centre where there was visible anxiety among the people as the laptops and other machines kept presenting technical challenges.

None of the people in the queue had been able to go through the registration process as of 0800 hours.

When the GNA visited the Ejsiu R/C Primary Centre at about 0805 hours five people had registered and there were about 100 waiting for their turn in a queue.

At the Asonomaso Presby Primary School, 70-year Opanin Osei Bonsu was the only person to have picked his Voter ID Card at the time the GNA reached the centre.

About 60 other people had queued to go through the process.

Opanin Osei Bonsu told the GNA that he got to the centre as early as 0500 hours.**