The Foundation for Security and Development in Africa (FOSDA) has alleged that minors registered as voters recently and called on the political parties and civil society to discourage the practice for the sake of electoral peace.
It has therefore called on the political parties to advise its supporters who have encouraged the registration of minors to prevent such children from voting to preserve and protect the peace in the country during and after the polls.
Ms Afi Yakubu, Executive Director of the FOSDA, was speaking to the Ghana News Agency in Tamale on Wednesday on the sidelines of a two-day Youth Peace Summit which brought together some youth ambassadors from the Upper East, Upper West and Northern Regions to brainstorm on activities for peaceful elections.
The summit also forms part of on-going project being carried by FOSDA under the "Ballots not bullets" project where some youths were championing peace-building activities in some six hot spots of conflicts in the northern parts of the country.
Ms Yakubu said the registration of minors as voters in the country has a major repercussion not only for the elections but for the minors themselves saying, "A fifteen year old with voters ID will be treated like an adult in the law courts because of the voters ID".
She called on the general public and parents to advise their children against such practices and those minors with voters IDs should be made to destroy them to avoid any problem.
Mr. Peter Adiyere, a Peace Ambassador from Paga, disclosed that due to the sensitization of members in the area, people from various political parties could now interact effectively and share ideas for the development of the constituency.
He urged the public especially, politicians to be mindful of the fact that bullets bring destruction and autocracy but ballots bring development.
GNA
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