The National Elections Security Task Force (NESTF) has deployed 48,000 security personnel from various security agencies in the country to ensure safety at polling stations and collation centres in the country for tomorrow’s (Tuesday) local level elections.
The personnel are from the Ghana Police Service, Ghana Prisons Service, Ghana Immigration Service, Ghana National Fire Service, and the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority.
The NESTF, in a statement signed by Chairman of the media and communications sub-committee of the force ACP David Eklu, has assured the public of seeing to the “smooth conduct of the District Assembly and Unit Committee elections without hindrance”.
They further appealed to “all stakeholders, especially candidates, their respective agents and supporters to abide by the laws regulating the conduct of a peaceful, free and transparent elections in the country.”
Ghanaians are to contact the Police in case of security challenges before, during and after the elections.
EC ready for elections
On their part, the Electoral Commission (EC) has said all is set for tomorrow’s elections across all 16 regions except for three electoral areas in the Nkoransa North and South in the Bono East Region and Lower Manya Krobo in the Eastern Region.
A Deputy Chairperson of the Commission in charge of Operations, Samuel Tetteh said all security measures have been put in place and names of some flashpoints have been handed over to the police for additional security.
He further added that persons with disabilities must not be allowed to join long queues at the various centres.
According to him, enough radio and TV adverts have been done to sensitize Ghanaians about the elections on publicity about the exercise.
The Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO) has also deployed over 1,000 election observers to the various electoral areas.
This, CODEO says is to monitor the polls and ensure that the electoral processes go on smoothly.
