The immediate past Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Dr. Henry Kwabena Kokofu has urged the general public to get committed to the ongoing limited voter registration exercise.
The Electoral Commission, as a way of capturing all persons who were not able to get registered during the last registration exercise and persons who turned the eligible age of eighteen (18), has decided to embark on a limited voter registration exercise across the country.
Although the exercise has been charaterised by a number of challenges, the Environmental Scientist has called on all Ghanaians who are eligible to cease the opportunity to do so.
“Everyone who has to take part in the ongoing registration exercise must endeavor to do so. This is a collective effort that everyone must endeavour to make.”
Speaking on Friday's edition of Peace FM's 'kokrokoo' programme, Dr. Kokofu said, “I was very perturbed when I heard that a certain parliamentary candidate has travelled out of the country when this all important national exercise is ongoing. I pray it is not an NPP candidate. If it is, then I am urging him or her to come back and ensure that all persons in your constituency who was not able to get registered during the last edition to do so in this exercise. It is part of your responsibility to ensure that persons whose names have not been captured in the system of the Electoral Commission is done without fail.”
Reacting to IMANI’s petition to CHRAJ to investigate the Electoral Commission over the disposal of the obsolete BVDs, and the Commission’s refusal to release the serial numbers of the BVDs and BVRs to the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Dr. Kokofu mentioned that, they are schemes devised to distract attention from the upcoming elections.
According to him, it is a deliberate attempt made by these organisations to say that the election was rigged when the NPP’s flagbearer is declared winner after December 7.
“This is not the first time a registration exercise is being conducted and it is not the first time an election is going to be held. So where from the demand of serial numbers of BVRs and BVDs. This is ridiculously disheartening and should not be encouraged,” he said.
He stressed, “We in the NPP are working so hard to win the marginal seats. We are not relenting on hard work. We are not going to bus anyone from anywhere but we shall work within the constituencies to make sure that everyone who has not registered gets registered. We are not as desperate as the NDC. We need to protect the free SHS policy so we shall encourage all the batches of the free SHS students who couldn’t register at the time to do so and vote for the NPP so that the policy can be protected. We are not taking any chances.”
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