Queues disappear at registration centres in Wa on last day

Wa, Aug. 12, GNA - The long queues and scrambles that characterised this year's supplementary voters' registration exercise in the Wa Municipality, which ends on Tuesday, disappeared during the initial last day of the exercise.

This prompted Mr. Cyril Dramani, Registration Officer in-charge of the Limangiri/Nayiri and Government Residential Electoral Areas to say that the extension of the time was not necessary because it had made no impact.

When the Ghana News Agency visited the centres at 11.30 am, there was no potential voter around to register and the registration officials were virtually doing nothing. Mr Dramani said 1,231 people had so far registered since the exercise opened and 30 suspected minors had their registration challenged by party agents at the centre.

At the Saint Andrews Catholic Junior High School Centre, which is home to communities within the Konta and Boli Electoral Area, 1,159 new voters had been registered as at mid-day on Tuesday. Only one young woman was around to register when the GNA got to the centre. The Kabonye and Zongo Electoral Areas centre at the Regional Directorate of Health Services also recorded no queue. The only queue of about 20 potential voters was at the Kenbale Mosque Centre which catered for communities within the Kanbale and Charia Electoral Areas. Mr Elias Kuusaana, the Registration Officer said rains disrupted the exercise in some of the communities and that was the reason for the queue on the last day. Mr Kuussana said 1,782 voters had been registered at the centre, adding that the extension of the registration time was in order since many potential voters would have been left out, had that not been done.