Narrating his personal experience with the process, Kyeremanteng Agyarko said he was nearly stopped from undergoing the exercise because he did not have his voters’ I.D card.
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“I think that some of the people are poorly trained. When I went, the girl there told me that if I don’t have my card, I can’t verify. She told me no, she said that was the rule and that I should go and find my card. I knew she was wrong but I didn’t want to tell her who I was. After I had finished all of this, I told her that I was asking about it because I was the Member of Parliament.”
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Mr. Agyarko stressed the need for electoral officers to be well-trained and well-equipped for election day, to prevent the recurrence of the controversies that occurred during the 2012 General Elections.
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“I think the Electoral Commission should properly instruct the people they employ. We have seen this happen in an election that became a cliffhanger. I beg of them, as part of their preparation, they must clearly instruct the people that are working for them on what to do”, he said in on Accra-based CITI FM.
The Electoral Commission opened the Voters’ Verification Exercise on Monday, July 18, 2016 to give electorates the opportunity to verify their candidacy, after the commission expunged some 54,000 names of people believed to have registered with the National Health Insurance Card.
This was done upon the instruction of the Supreme Court, after the validity of the use of the NHIS Card as a verification of the nationality of registrants during the Voters’ Registration process in 2015.
