Woman allowed to vote after threatening suicide

Madam Sherry Kadi, 37, a businesswoman, succeeded in voting after threatening to end her life if she was not allowed to do so. Madam Kadi had transferred her vote from Dr Duah Polling Station at Teshie to Adabraka and arrived at the polling station in a chartered taxi. Her name could not be found at her new polling station so she verified from the old station but it was not there either.

Madam Kadi then threatened to end her life if she was not allowed to vote : "I will not involve myself in anything that would happen in this country anymore.

It is better to kill myself than to live without being recognised in my own country. I cannot face the shame, I must die," Madam Kadi threatened.

Mr Godwin Bortey, the presiding officer, then checked the forms on which she first registered before the transfer but he could not find it.

Moved by her utterances, the party agents conferred and advised the presiding officer, who later found her registration number - 06633907 - and then allowed her to exercise her franchise.