Poor Publicity Causes Low Patronage of Registration Exercise

Ho, May 5, (Kanyi) GNA-Registration Assistants in the Ho Municipality have attributed the low patronage of the review of the Voters Register to poor publicity. Some also observed that as happened in the past the first days of the exercise is always characterized with low turnout. When the Ghana News Agency (GNA) visited one of the central centres, Asivime (small market) around 1350 hours, only three people, all of age 18 had registered.

Mr Thompson Dokpornu, Officer in-charge of the centre expressed disappointment at the situation and said it was lowering their morale towards the work.

He noted that people came to the market to do their own businesses and only look at them with indifference.

"Many people appear not to be aware of the exercise or do not care about what was going on," Mr Dokpornu stated. He suggested that chiefs and assemblymen should be mobilized to raise awareness and full participation in the exercise. Turn-out was poor at all the other registration centres the GNA visited. At Anlokordzi, 11 people had registered when the GNA got there at around 1400 hours.