Prospective Registration Applicants Demand Enticement

Mr Seth Alifui, Kadjebi District Chief Executive, has said it would be unpatriotic for some people, particularly supporters of political parties, to demand money before they register.

He said the biometric registration exercise was a national programme towards consolidating democracy, which makes all citizens equal stakeholders.

Mr Alifui told the GNA after touring some of the registration centres at Kadjebi where he picked information that some people were demanding financial rewards before they would register.

He appealed to state agencies mandated to educate the electorate to continue to create awareness about the exercise.

On the exercise itself, he said things had normalized after the initial problems of non-functioning machines, nervousness and slowness.

In a related development, the chiefs and people of New Agou, Jumbo and Ebiteyie, who could be described as living in a “no man’s land” resulting from district boundary demarcation impasse, are boycotting the registration exercise.

These communities, sited in the Nkwanta South District, have petitioned the authorities to be re-aligned to the Nkwanta North District. These communities have in fact boycotted national elections since 2003.

Mr Paul Levin Gyato, Nkwanta North DCE told the GNA that a stakeholders committee including the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development are exploiting measures towards addressing the issue.**