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Voter ID photo taking in Ho Municipal Area
runs smooth
Ho, Sept 14, Ghanadot/GNA-The exercise to
take photos of prospective voters who could not get their
pictures for their Voter Identity Cards, due to material
shortages during the last limited registration exercise, is
going on smoothly in the Ho Municipality.
Thirteen teams, each made up of a Photographer and a Clerk
are scheduled to take pictures of close to 5,000 prospective
voters in the municipality during the five-day mopping-up
exercise.
Mr Johnson Akafia, Ho Municipal Area Director of the
Electoral Commission of Ghana, (EC) said the schedule of the
teams were based on statistics of numbers pending in the
various electoral areas.
He said the teams would stay for the entire period at
electoral areas where figures of those who could not have
their pictures taken were high.
Mr Akafia said mobile teams would be available at areas with
low numbers at appointed days within the five-day programme,
promising that variations in schedules, based on reports on
the ground, would be made to ensure total success of the
exercise in the municipality.
He said the exercise would also cover people who missed
taking pictures during the 2004 and 2006 registration
exercises and had slips to show.
Mr Akafia said besides EC programmes to publicize the
programme, the Political Parties, were also using their
channels of communications to get the message to the people.
The centre at the offices of the Electoral Commission in Ho,
where 38 photos were taken on the first day of the exercise
on Friday, was without a queue when the GNA called.
GNA
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