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Scores apply for replacement of
cards in Ho
Ho, Aug 11, Ghanadot/GNA - Scores
of people have applied to the Ho Municipal Office of the
Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC) within the past six days
for replacement of their lost voter identity cards.
Mr Johnson Akafia, Municipal Election Officer, said about
1,000 applications have been processed and "they keep on
coming", he told the Ghana News Agency on Sunday.
He said this followed an information drive at all
registration centres in the Municipal Area, urging people to
apply for replacement of lost cards or risk prosecution if
they went ahead to register again.
Regarding trends in the limited registration exercise, he
said indications were that the rural areas had been fully
covered, with queues reducing.
He said there were still queues at centres in Ho minutes to
1800 hours on Sunday, initially scheduled as the last day of
the exercise until it was extended to August 12.
Mr Akafia said scenes of big crowds at the registration
centres had changed to orderly queues, indicating "many
eligible people have had the opportunity to register".
When asked about shortage of ribbons and cartridges at some
of the centres, Mr Akafia said arrangements would be made at
the convenience of those whose pictures could not be taken
to come back.
Rev Gershon Lokko, Registration Officer at the EC Municipal
Office in Ho, complained about the wait-and-see attitude of
people until the last moment before rushing for such
exercises.
There were about 12 people waiting to be registered when the
GNA got there but more people rushed to the centre to beat
the original deadline.
GNA
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