Some Voters unable to give house numbers

Accra, March 16, GNA - A number of voters who went to the Anglican Church, Abossey Okai Registration Centre to register could not give their house numbers and the Registration Officer; Mrs Veronica Alometu had to rely on Street names in order to register them.

Mrs Alometu, who was speaking to the Ghana News Agency, said the exercise had been going on smoothly by the time the Ghana News Agency visited the Centre.

A number of registration centres in the Ablekumah Central Constituency had substantial number voters in queue waiting to register when the GNA went round.

"These numbers are encouraging and impressive I hope this would improve further as the days go by, " Madam Comfort Agbenor, Registration Officer at the Mataheko Junior Secondary School (JSS) Registration Centre said.

She said she had collected all the materials needed and so she and her team of two registration assistants in concert with two polling agents each from the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) had been performing their functions without any hitch.

Madam Agbenor said she had already registered 100 out of the 500 voters expected to register at her Centre at the time the GNA visited the Centre.

She expressed her gratitude to the electorate in the area for conducting themselves so well and making their job a pleasant one.