There is growing frustration among first-time voters eager to get their names on the electoral roll at Duaponko, a farming community in the Afigya-Kwabre South Constituency, over dysfunctional registration equipment sent there by Electoral Commission (EC).
Only 15 applicants had been able to add their names to the roll as at the end of day four of the 10-day window for people who have attained the legal voting age to register due to the breakdown of the machine.
The Registration Officer, Mr Thomas Owusu, told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that this had been reported to the Commission and that they had already sent for it.
He said ?for now the exercise has been halted because the faulty equipment is yet to be replaced?.
Mr Kwaku Oppong-Kyekyeku Kaakyire, the Afigya-Kwabre District Chief Executive (DCE), described the development as worrying and called on the EC to act without delay to put things right.
He, however, urged the people ?to remain calm while every effort is being made to make sure that no qualified voter is denied the opportunity to register?.
The DCE expressed satisfaction with the peaceful manner of the exercise in the Constituency and credited the registration officers and political party agents for playing by the rules.
This was after he had toured some of the centres at Aduman, Aboabogya, Wawase, Mpobi, Ejuratia, Ankaase East and West, Hemang, Ebom-Bomfa, Adwumakaase-Kese, and Amoako North.
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