Ho, Mar. 24, GNA- Two registration centres, Taviefe_Deme and Fiave Global Evangelical Church in Ho on Wednesday run short of voter’s registration forms. Mr Augustine Bansah, registration officer (RO) at Taviefe-Deme, told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that the Electoral Commission (EC) supplied 50 forms when the centre’s stock of registration forms run out on Tuesday, only for it to be exhausted, after 548 people were registered. At about 1000 hrs, when the GNA visited the centre, an Assistant Officer had been dispatched to the Volta Regional EC Directorate to collect additional materials to re-stock the centre to enable more eligible voters to be registered. Mr Raphael Nyaho RO at the Fiave Centre appealed to the EC to provide it with more forms as what was left was inadequate, after recording 858 registered voters. Mr Mohammed Addoquaye, Volta Regional Director of the EC has assured the public not to panic over the shortage of registration forms as the issue was being addressed to safeguard the integrity of the voter registration exercise. He said his supervisors were working around the clock distributing supplementary forms. Mr Addoquaye said as a short gap measure, forms were being retrieved and re-distributed from lowly populated areas to highly demanding areas to avert the exercise from stalling. Meanwhile, at the Police Depot Centre, 600 people were registered while none of the party agents were present when GNA visited the Centre at 10.45am but Mr Frank Asamani, RO who was busy on the job, was optimistic that they would turn up later in the day. Mr Gameli Gbemu, RO at the RC JSS said 923 eligible voters had so far been registered with more forms available for others to use.
