Residents of the Volta Region, especially those in the border area of Aflao, are making good the Eagle Eye project, which seeks to deny access to Ghana by Togolese for the purpose of voting during the forthcoming elections in the country.
During President John Mahama’s recent visit to the Volta Region, frantic efforts were made to ferry Togolese from the frontier to come and improve the small number of people who were around to welcome him and listen to his address.
A scene was created when one of the many Metro Mass Transit buses engaged for the ferrying of Togolese from across the border got stuck in no-man’s land between the two countries near Aveyiborme.
The bus, which was abandoned for four days, got tongues wagging among the already disgruntled indigenes who have in recent times been complaining about why NDC organizers would invite Togolese into Ghanaian territory for the collection of goodies.
One of the aggrieved persons told DAILY GUIDE that “it is being assumed that the bus got stuck at that spot as part of plans to ferry Togolese to come and swell the numbers for the President’s visit in a fleet of buses.
Leading NDC organizers have incurred the wrath of party supporters, whose support they have enjoyed over the years but which is waning now in an apparent overreliance on Togolese, especially those bearing Ghanaian voter ID cards.
It would be recalled that NPP organizers in the Volta Region, led by Peter Amewu, have initiated a project dubbed, Operation Eagle Eye, which they intend using to prevent Togolese from interfering in the Ghanaian electoral process.
The project has received a boost with disgruntled NDC elements joining their ranks in a spirit of nationalism.