The NPP honoured over 900 polling agents and volunteers last weekend for risking their lives during the 2000 presidential and parliamentary elections, reports the party's mouthpiece, the NPP News.
The polling agents who formed part of over 2000 volunteers recruited by NPP to monitor the elections in the Volta Region were awarded with certificates and cash for their meritorious services to the party and nation.
They were made up of the party's polling agents, students from the tertiary institutions and other volunteers.
The ceremony was full of excitement as the heroes recounted their experiences during the December 7 and 28 elections in a region known as the NDC's World Bank" as far as elections are concerned.
Some of them were maimed with bullet wounds, some were detained by the police, whilst others were brought back to Accra by the former IGP, Mr Peter Nanfuri for no apparent reason. National Chairman, Mr Samuel Odoi-Skykes saluted the heroes for their bravery and the risk they took to ensure that democracy thrives in the country.
