Blotted Ashanti Regional voters register ....

...is a challenge to the country's democracy-NDC
Osiem (E/R), May 19, GNA- Mr. Anthony Gyampo, Eastern Regional Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), at the weekend said the current blotted voters' register of Ashanti Region made the voting population of that area equal to the total voting population of some other regions in the country.
He explained that the situation was a challenge to the democratic principles of the country where the will of the people should be the deciding factor in any proper democratic elections. Mr Gyampo was speaking at a strategic seminar organized for branch and ward youth organizers of the Abuakwa North constituency branch of the NDC at Osiem.
He said the situation threw a challenge to youth organizers of the party to ensure that all qualified and unregistered voters in their branches and wards were registered when the voters register is opened. Mr. Bismarck Tawiah, Eastern Regional organizer of the party, said the NDC had more to show and prove its good governance than the New Patriotic Party (NPP), which came to power in 2000 on promises it had not been able to deliver as at now.
Mr. Tawiah-Boateng said in the Eastern Region alone, as at 2000, NDC could boast of a lot of good roads including the Tema -Akosombo road, Koforidua-Akuapem roads, Nkurakan-Asesewa road and Otokporlu-Odumase road. He said most of the roads that the NPP government was boasting of, were projects that they came to inherit with the drawings and funds already available.
He said what the NPP did was to facilitate the construction, but which unfortunately it was not able to do to have them completed on schedule and yet they were making a lot of noises.
Mr. Tawiah-Boateng said the NPP was gradually turning the democratic governance of the country into dictatorship for the rich, adding that, it was the highest bidders who were being offered the mandate of the delegates at its primaries. He said the new image of the NDC required that every member of the party led exemplary life style that people in their communities would look up to them for leadership and direction. Mr Kwaku Asamoah, Regional Youth Organizer of the NDC, urged the youth organizers of the party to encourage as many young women as possible to join their fold.
He advised them to set up a nine-member youth organizers committee in all their branches and wards to help them in their mobilization work. Mr Simon Peter Asirifi, Parliamentary candidate of the NDC for the constituency, observed that from all indication, victory was awaiting the party in the area and in the country and what remained was only hard work to achieve that.
Mr Atta Boateng, Abuakwa North constituency Youth Organizer, challenged all youth organizers in the constituency to enter every home in the constituency and ensure that all the youth who had attained 18 years are registered. In a welcoming address, Mr Nimako Dankwa, constituency chairman of the party, expressed his appreciation of the seminar and said similar ones would be organized for branch chairmen and secretaries in the constituency.