FOLLOW LAID DOWN PROCEDURE — NCCE (PAGE 13)

THE acting Volta Regional Director of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), Ms Annie Modesta Sapaty, has asked the electorate to follow the procedure for the compilation of the voter’s register in order not to lose track of various activities of the Electoral Commission.
She said the Electoral Commission had organised a limited registration exercise and that there would soon be an exhibition to check names in the register to guarantee people’s chances of exercising their franchise on the election day.
Ms Sapaty said this when she addressed a voter education rally on the theme, “Effective Participation and Peaceful Non-Violent Election” at Keyime in the Adaklu-Anyigbe District.
She said under the present political dispensation, Article 55 of the 1992 constitution enjoined any citizen of voting age to join any political party and also gave them the right to vote.
She said political parties had drawn their code of conduct for the election and that it was pertinent for all to be tolerant, promote peace and fairness before, during and after the elections, adding that development could only flourish in a peaceful environment.
The District Director of NCCE , Togbe Adzimah V, aka Prosper Lagble, advised the electorate to be guided by their conscience and not to be swayed by gifts, money or the like since that was likely to render them impotent to challenge their wrongdoings.
He called on them to maintain the peace prevailing in the country in order to avoid the bad precedents set in Rwanda, Liberia, Kenya and Zimbabwe which had become flash points of election disturbances.
In an address, the Chief of Keyime, Togbe Morkpli Awlimega, said the problems that characterised the recent registration should not be glossed over, adding that efforts should be made not to disenfranchise those who attained the voting age but were not captured in the just ended voter registration exercise.
For his part the assemblymember for the area, Mr Agbesi Latsu, who chaired the function, called for more of such educational programmes to enable the people to exercise their basic rights and assume their civic responsibilities.