The Police administration has directed all unit commanders to allow their subordinate staff to participate in the special voters’ registration exercise on Sunday.
The Electoral Commission (EC) together with stakeholders, at an emergency Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) meeting on Thursday evening, decided to extend the special voting exercise to Sunday, December 4, to allow persons who couldn’t vote to do so.
Following this, the Director of Public Affairs of the Ghana Police Service, Superintendent Cephas Arthur, assured that the affected police officers have been given ample time to exercise their franchise.
“Already the administration had issued a directive to all personnel, especially those who didn’t find their name on the special voters register to go to their original places of voting to go and do so.”
“With the new list given by the EC, the police administration has tasked all the commanders to ensure that all their personnel take advantage of this opportunity to exercise their franchise by voting and that they have giving them up to the voting period to vote and return,” he said in a Citi News interview.
Superintendent Arthur also indicated that the directive would not affect election day security arrangements as a greater portion of the deployments were being done within the regions the personnel would be voting in.
“They will have the rest of Sunday, the whole of Monday, the whole of Tuesday to get back to their duty points,” he noted.
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(Via: CitiFM Online Ghana)