Defective equipment suspend second phase registration in four Jomoro registration centres

Four Registration Centres in the Jomoro District of the Western Region could not take part in the Second phase of the Biometric Registration exercise started on Wednesday due to their defective equipment.

The Centres are at Anwiafotu, Beyin, Ghana Nugua and Half Assini.

Mr Kwabena Asante, Jomoro District Electoral Officer made this known to the Ghana News Agency at Half Assini on Wednesday, saying some of the malfunctioning equipment were printers and laptops.

Mr Asante said the faulty equipments have been sent to the Western Regional Headquarters of the Electoral Commission (EC) in Sekondi for repairs.

Mr Asante said until the equipment are repaired and brought back, the exercise would not resume and called for their immediate replacement.

He said the Centre at the Half Assini cluster of schools registered 23 people in the morning before the machine developed the fault.

Meanwhile a visit by the GNA to other Centres in Half Assini and Jewi Wharf showed that the exercise was going on smoothly without long queues as was the case in the first phase of the programme.**