Voters register opens on March 22

The Electoral Commission (EC) on Friday announced that the voters' register would be opened from Friday March 22 to Sunday, March 31 to receive applications from prospective voters.

The exercise would also be used to clean the register, a statement signed by Mr Henry W. Okine, Director, Public Affairs of EC, said in Accra. It said the exercise, which would be from 7am to 6pm daily, including weekends, would be undertaken in designated centres in each of the 5,000 electoral areas throughout the country.

"During the period, Ghanaian citizens, who have attained the age of 18 since the last registration exercise have the opportunity to register now. Older Ghanaians who, for one reason or the other, have not registered since 1995 can also do so now."

The statement said in order to have a reliable, accurate and dependable register, Ghanaian citizens, family heads, traditional rulers, assembly members, unit committee members as well as opinion leaders in the communities, political parties and religious leaders are entreated to report the death of their registered relatives and friends to enable the Commission to remove the names of the dead from the register.