Exhibition Voters Register opens in all centres in Central Region except...

Exhibition of the Biometric Voters’ Register opened on Saturday in all the 1,948 polling centres in the Central Region except Asikuma community in the Upper Denkyira East.

Mr. Sirebour Quaicoe, Deputy Central Regional Director of the Electoral Commission told the Ghana News Agency that the register for Asikuma was wrongly coded and that the issue was being rectified to enable it to be opened on Sunday, September 2.

In Cape Coast, as at 0930 hours, people were seen anxiously waiting in queues to check their details in the new register as exhibition officers prepare to attend to them.

At the Amanful Junior High School (JHS) and Amanful Primary School centres, Ms. Georgina Nkum and Mr. Ray Arthur, exhibition officers said as at 1140 hours 13 and 9 people had come to verify their details.

The story was not different at Elmina – At the Nkontrodo town for instance the register opened at about 1000 hours while at the Elmina Zongo only eight had checked their details with zero attendance at the Elmina Castle Centre as at 900hrs.

Ms. Deladem Awuma, exhibition officer, at the SCC block at SSNIT Flats, said eight out of 374 total registered voters had checked their details as at 1220 hours. At Daddy’s Flat at SSNIT, 15 out 969 people in the register had checked. The Fetu Afahye festival celebration, currently ongoing, is said to be the reason for the low attendance at most centres.

The exhibition exercise will last for ten days.