THE Northern Regional Director of the Electoral Commission Mr Sylvester Kanyi, has called for the beefing up of security at some registration centres in the Tamale metropolis to ensure a smooth process of the exercise in the area.
This follows an isolated incident that occurred at one of the polling stations at the United Primary centre, where some unidentified persons on board pickup vehicles fired warning shots at the centre and made away with the registration materials, including the forms.
The registration assistants and persons who had queued up to register their names at the station had to scurry away for their lives.
There have, however, not been any reported injuries. No arrest had also been made yet. A police source claims investigations were underway to apprehend the perpetrators of the bizarre action and also retrieve the stolen materials.
The director has explained that ‘‘there is no cause for alarm, because we have all the numbers contained in those forms. What we have to do is to block the numbers in the scanner machine’’.
He described the incident as rather unfortunate and indicated that the exercise was going on smoothly at other centres in the metropolis in spite of some minor misunderstandings that are associated with such important exercises in the electoral process.
Mr Kanyi further advised the people and the leadership of the various political parties in the area to report any anomalies in the exercise to his outfit or the security agencies for redress and not to take the laws into their own hands.
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