Biometric mobile workstation kit delays exercise at Lapaz

The nationwide biometric registration exercise which started on Saturday morning has seen an average turn out at the Lapaz video center A and B electoral polling stations in the Okaikoi North Constituency in Accra.

Mrs Hannah Obeng Omari, Special Duty Officer for the Electoral Commission for the polling stations in Accra, said their biometric mobile workstation kit had frozen leading to the late start of the exercise.

Mr Richard Osei Bonsu, the registration officer in an interview with Ghana News Agency said that as at 1300 hours, they had only registered 40 applicants.

He said out of the 40, only 15 applicants had taken their photos and received their ID cards, a situation he blamed on the slow nature of the exercise because registration officers were not familiar with the biometric mobile workstation kit.

Mr Bonsu said he was hopeful that the situation would improve as the days go by. At the time of the visit, only the National Democratic Congress and the New Patriotic Party had their representatives at post to also monitor the exercise.

Mr Philip Adu Brimpong, a party representative said that so far the exercise had been clean and everything was going on as expected.

“There has not been any cause for worry at all and I believe that the register will be credible enough if things go this way until the close of the exercise.” He added.**