The police in the Ellembelle District of the Western Region will be on high alert to deal with anyone who has planned to foment trouble in the area before, during and after the December 7 general elections, Detective Sgt Fredrick Opoku has said.
The Detective Sergeant, stationed at the Nkroful Police post in the district noted that the police, in collaboration with other sister security services, were ready to provide adequate security as always done during general elections.
He, therefore, advised the youth of political parties not to allow themselves to be deceived by politicians to generate trouble at polling stations since the law would deal with them drastically.
He gave the advice when addressing a section of the people in the Ellembelle constituency at a programme organized in the area to educate the people on the need to check their names in the on-going voters’ exhibition exercise by the Electoral Commission (EC).
The programme was organized by Star-Ghana, a body that supports initiatives towards promoting peaceful and credible election this year, in collaboration with Skyy Power Fm in Takoradi.
The police officer urged Ghanaians, particularly those in the Ellembelle district to take conscious steps to ensure that this year’s election was peaceful.
The Deputy District Director of the National Commission on Civic Education (NCCE) in the area Yaro Salifu charged political parties and their supporters in the area to ensure clean and decent election campaign to help protect the relative peace the constituency was enjoying.
He expressed worry about the alleged insults, name calling and the intemperate language by some politicians and noted that, these, if allowed to continue could be a recipe for chaos.
He lamented also about the general apathy on the part of the electorates towards the exercise and appealed to them to go to their respective polling centres to check their names so that they will not be disenfranchised during the December 7 presidential and parliamentary elections.
For his part, the Ellembelle District officer of the EC, Emmanuel Aidoo called on the public to volunteer information on dead relatives so that their names could be taken off the register.
He cautioned that it was only people who appeared in person who could ask for correction of wrong data or inclusion of their names where they had been omitted.
From Emmanuel Opoku, Esiama