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| Regional EC Boss, James Arthur Yeboah |
The Upper East
Regional Office of the EC is awaiting valid report from the various district
registration review committees set up to look into issues of persons that were
faced with registration challenges during the just ended limited registration
exercise in the region.
The committees were inaugurated after the first phase
of the exercise on the sidelines of complains forwarded to the regional EC for
redress.
Speaking to Radio Ghana’s Isaac Asare, the Regional Director of the
EC, James Arthur Yeboah said so far only one district had submitted its final report
and was looking forward to other districts to do same.
According to him, the
remaining districts have not be able to present their reports ,perhaps due to
the large numbers they dealt with and was hopeful that with time they will finalize
their report for submission.
He noted that those that were challenged during
the exercise will be invited to defend their claims adding that those that fail
to show up upon request will have their registration process scrapped.
Mr Arthur Yeboah said the EC has drawn practical
lessons from the recent registration and will put in place pragmatic steps to
forestall future occurrences.
He mentioned the issue of frequent breakdown of
registration kits due to intense heat and shortage of registration forms in
some centers, especially Garu, where numbers were quite high due to the
displacement of people from Bawku to the area, as some of the challenges.
He
thanked representatives of the political parties and other stakeholders
including community leaders for their role in helping to resolve problems
encountered at some registration centres.
Meanwhile, the region was able to
register Fifty Four Thousand, 735 persons at the end of the second phase of the
10-day nationwide exercise.
GBC NEWS END
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