Students who have attained the age of 18 years and are in boarding schools in the Brong-Ahafo Region are finding it difficult to provide guarantors at registration centres to enable them register in the ongoing limited registration exercise. They reportedly wait for long hours at the registration centres looking for people to guarantee for them.
At the Akokora Kwadwo Electoral Area in the Sunyani municipality, students from Notre Dame Girls’ School who have neither driver’s licences nor passports and so are to present guarantors to testify on their behalf that they have really reached the voting age of 18 years and are Ghanaians, were waiting desperately at the registration centre for guarantors.
At the time of our visit at about 2:28 pm yesterday, the students were still waiting for someone to guarantee for them to register. They would however, not tell DAILY GUIDE their names or allow for their photographs to be taken.
The registration itself, according to registration officers at the various registration centres visited, confirmed that the process had been very slow since it started. One of the registration officers, Alfred Asemaku Aggrey, told DAILY GUIDE the process was slow because people were not coming in their numbers. The few people who came normally were in the mornings or in the evenings. He, however, said they had not encountered any problem.
The situation was not different at the Akuoko Electoral Area. Here only 11 people registered on the first day and on the second day 17 people had registered when this paper got there.
In the Asutifi South District of the region the situation was the same. At the Ramsu Electoral Area, as at 12:32 pm only 6 people had registered. According to the electoral officer, Badu Yeboah, 20 people registered at the end of the first day.
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