Biometric registration starts in Cape Coast

The Biometric Registration exercise started in earnest in the Cape Coast Metropolis as anxious residents queuing up as early as 0630hrs to have their names written in the voters’ register.

The exercise was delayed at the Cape Coast Town hall registration centre where people had to wait for long hours as a restaurant operator in the premises failed to allow them in with the reason that she has hired the place for business.

It took the intervention of officials from the Electoral Commission (EC) to persuade her to open the gate for the exercise which finally started around 1030hours.

When the GNA got to the scene around 09.00hrs the long winding queue had reached the main street of the Town Hall.

At the Cape Coast Castle Centre, as at 1130 hours, the Ntsin polling station had registered only about 58 people. However the registration officers expressed concern that the old system was much faster than the biometric system of registration.

At the Anomabo Mboakuw/ Pentecost centre in Cape Coast, 31 people had registered as at 12 midday.**