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Handbags and cellphones may not be allowed at the polls, and here's why
Director General of Police in charge of Operations Christian Tetteh Yohuno said the move is to prevent voters from capturing votes with their phones.
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Director General of Police in charge of Operations Christian Tetteh Yohuno said the move is to prevent voters from capturing votes with their phones.
“We will ask them to drop them before you enter to vote,” he told TV3 news, adding that this is part of measures to ensure and peaceful and credible polls on December 7.
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He further indicated that in line with international anti-terrorism conventions, handbags of voters will be collected before the process to exercise franchise begins for electorates.
Meanwhile, ahead of the 2016 election, the Ghana Police Service has said that it has identified over 5000 hot spots where violence could erupt during the elections.
This was revealed by the Director-General of the Police Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Prosper Kwami Agblorh at a forum on peaceful election organised by the Kofi Annan International Peace Keeping Training Center.
The number of flashpoints has increased from 3,574 in 2012 to over 5000 in 2016. Agblorh attributed the increase to the illegal possession of arms, chieftaincy disputes among others.
“The proliferation of illicit arms in the country, the existence of numerous land and chieftaincy disputes, the prevalence of terrorist activities in some neighbouring countries of our regions all serve as triggers for violence and therefore pose real threats to the 2016 general elections.”
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He said this is the main reason why the police have activated the National Election Security Architecture. Their role he explained is to plan for the security section of election 2016.
“The overall objective of the task force is to provide a forum for security agencies to impartially deal with election security related issues in a coordinated manner,” he said.
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