RM TOURS VOTER REGISTRATION CENTRES IN BONGO & BOLGA CENTRAL 9th JULY, 2020


 The Upper East Regional Minister, Hon. Tangoba Abayage has extended her inspection visits of the ongoing voters’ registration exercise to some centres in Bongo Constituency in the Bongo District and Bolgatanga Central Constituency, in the Bolgatanga Municipality. 
 
The day’s rounds began in the Bongo Constituency where the regional minister was led to the very first stop at the Anafobiisi Primary School registration centre which had recorded 377 registrants at about 13:05 GMT. The Minister and her team members had their temperatures monitored with a thermometre gun among other COVID-19 protocols before allowed into a marked area within which the exercise was taking place. 
Hon. Tangoba @ Anafobiisi centre [1st from left] asking the progress so far
Hon. Tangoba also called on the Bongo district directorate of the Electoral Commission [EC] around half-past-one and was informed by the EC Director that, a total of 5,818 citizens had been registered at the end of batch one; first phase one of the exercise. He revealed further that by close of work yesterday [day 3 of batch 2 of the same first phase], his officers had registered 3,826 potential voters constituency-wide.

Mr. Henry Adeenze Agaabil who heads the EC in Bongo, disclosed that at the most recent Ghanaian elections held in December 2019, the Constituency had a total voter population pegged at a little over 60,000 and estimated that, the figure could hit a little over 64,000 following the turn-up at registration centres.

Meanwhile before departing the district, Hon. Tangoba made a whistle stop on the Bongo-Balungu bridge, which was recently constructed and filled after many years of neglect. This bridge, the Bongo DCE Hon. Peter Ayinbisa explained, had since eradicated travel difficulties between the two towns and other adjoining communities.  
 
Hon. Tangoba & Team on the Balungu bridge
Moving into the Bolgatanga Central Constituency, Madam Tangoba visited the Dorongo Central registration at which was into the fourth day of the exercise and had recorded 78 registrants at the time the minister arrived. The centre had a total registration of 258 persons at the close of work yesterday. She also stopped at the Atulbadaboo centre which recorded 44 registrations since morning to about 15:50 GMT but had at close of yesterday had 335 citizens registered as the total for the past three days.

The Plaza Number 1 and Plaza Number 2 registration centres were also visited. Coincidently, the two centres each got a total of 231 registrations by end of work yesterday. However, Number 1 recorded 35 registrants at the time the minister visited while centre Number 2 had only 33 at the same period.

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