VOTER REGISTRATION NUMBERS IMPROVE IN BUILSA AREAS 8th JULY, 2020


The numbers of Ghanaians in the Builsa South and Builsa North districts of the Upper East Region turning up to register for their inclusion in Ghana’s new electoral roll for the 2020 general elections as being conducted by the Electoral Commission [EC], have been improving over the days since the commencement about a week ago.
Hon. Tangoba listens attentively to a briefing @  EC office, Fumbisi

This came to light when Upper East Regional Minister, Hon. Tangoba Abayage paid monitoring tours to some selected registration centres this Wednesday across the two districts. At her first stop few minutes to noon at the Kasiesa Primary School registration centre near Fumbisi in the Builsa South District, the Registration Officer [R.O] Mr. Dominic Abudem reported that, some 24 persons got registered by close of yesterday. Meanwhile, the officer added that as of the time of the minister’s visit, a total of 247 people had been registered.

Hon. Abayage was impressed with the EC’s adherence to the COVID-19 safety protocols at the centre but enquired if the officers had faced some challenges to which, the R.O replied that some 40 people though in the cue, could not be registered the previous day because the equipment ran slow at the data capturing stage. He said, the affected persons were given numbers and given special attention at the start of the day’s registration.

The Regional Minister who also doubles as the Parliamentary Candidate for the Navrongo Central Constituency on the ticket of the ruling New Patriotic Party [NPP] in this year’s general elections, then set off for the Builsa South District office of the EC where she was briefed on the registration exercise so far. District Electoral Officer, Madam Judith Atika Wusah disclosed that a total of  3,178 Ghanaians got successfully registered at the close of phase one of the exercise whilst as of yesterday, the seventh day [only two days into the second phase], the overall total number registered stood at 4,239.

The District Electoral Officer revealed that the Fumbisi Constituency at the last Ghanaian general elections held in 2016, had a total voter population of 21,278 and estimates that, the number may likely go up as some citizens would have attained the constitutional voting age over the period.   
 
Social Distancing kept strictly at Naadema Prim. Sch. Centre
At her third and last stop in the district, EC officials at the Naadema Primary School registration centre reported that the centre had recorded a total of 266 potential voters. Giving the breakdown, registration supervisor of the exercise Mr. Ali Alikali disclosed that 97 persons registered on Monday, 104 persons got registered yesterday and at the time the minister arrived, 65 citizens had registered.

The Regional Minister’s tour in the day ended in the Builsa North District where she was led by the District Chief Executive, Hon. David Afoko to inspect the registration at some two centres namely; Zuedem which had recorded a total of 244 registrations from this Monday through to today, Wednesday while on other hand the Kpalinsa Primary School Centre had a total of 195 people on its records. At the time of the minister’s visit by 13:35 GMT, the former had recorded 62 registrants while the latter had recorded only 42 people.

The minister ended the Builsa North tour at the EC’s district office where she sought answers as to why at almost all the registration centres visited, the EC’s lamination officers did not have a prescribed roller for the proper lamination of the voter ID cards but rather used implements such as a pair of scissors in the lamination process. In his response, the District Electoral Officer Mr. Mohammed Sherifdeen Alhassan was surprised at the absence of the lamination tool and insisted that every registration kit dispatched to the field was fully furnished and pledged to immediately look into the anomaly. 

The EC officer expressed optimism that the numbers of registrants will further improve as the days run by and that, targets set may even slightly go up by close of the whole exercise. He disclosed that the first seven days of the exercise which marked phase one of the registration, produced a total of 4,019 qualified voters and that yesterday’s exercise alone had also recorded 786 registrants. He revealed that the constituency had a little over 32,000 voters at the 2016 general elections and observed that with the smooth conduct of the current registration, the number could go a bit upwards.

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