Election Day - Juaben

At Juaben Court 1 and 2 polling stations in the

Ejisu-Juaben constituency, voting came to a standstill for about

20 minutes when rumours broke that a suspected NDC agent was

using a taxi to distribute acid ostensibly to spoil some of the

ballot papers. At the Besease D/A primary 1, 80 out of the 852

people had cast their votes as at 0740 hours when the GNA

visited the station. Fifty-five voters including a 100-year-old man, Opanin

Kwabena Asare, had cast their votes as at 0745 hours at the

Besease primary 2, polling station. At the Fumesua Ahenfie polling station, 72 out of 205

people had voted as at 0815 hours while 143 out of 787 had

voted at Juaben Zongo Presby polling station as at 0905 hours. At the Ejisu Court polling station, 80 people out 1,202

voters had cast their votes as at 0800 hours. Voting was generally

peaceful in all the polling stations. In the Suame Constituency, though most of polling

stations visited did not have long queues, voters trickled in to

exercise their franchise peacefully. At most of the stations, about one quarter of registered

voters had already cast their votes as at 0900 hours when the polling station when NDC polling agents not satisfied with where

they had been positioned, insisted to move to a certain angle to have a full and clear view of the voting process. The presiding officer who felt that position could

hamper easy voting declined to give in to the request which

angered the polling agents but the swift intervention by security

men defused the tension.