Ghanaians urged to register in spite of frustrations

The Member of Parliament for Ablekuma North, Justice Joe Appiah, has urged Ghanaians not to be daunted by the frustrations they were going through in the biometric registration exercise but should rather go out and register.

He said, registering was the only opportunity in voting out the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and its unprecedented economic hardship out of power.

Mr Appiah, who is seeking a second term of office on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), said this in an interview with the GNA in Accra on his impression about the Biometric registration exercise.

He indicated that, potential voters at Awoshie, Bethel Pentecost Church Darkuman, Great Gardens Kwashieman and Nyamekye Pentecost electoral areas in the constituency could not get the chance to register for three days due to faulty equipment, especially camera.

The MP wondered why the Electoral Commission (EC) had procured inferior machines after all the huge funding allocated to them for the exercise and said Ghanaians deserved better.

He was of the view that the EC had no alternative but to extend the registration exercise if at the end of the period, it emerged that technical problems prevented a lot of people from registering.

He also expressed worry about apparent lack of security at most of the registration centres thus allowing criminals to take laws into their own hands intimidating and preventing people from registering.**