Special voting takes of smoothly in Central Region

Special voting by security agencies and officials of the Electoral Commission (EC) took off smoothly in all the 23 constituencies in the Central Region on Tuesday.  Security personnel from the Ghana Police Service, Ghana National Fire Service, Ghana Immigration Service, Ghana Prison Service and EC officials queued at the Police Headquarters polling centre in the Cape Coast North constituency and at the Fire Service Headquarters in the Cape Coast South constituency, to exercise their franchise.      The Ghana News Agency (GNA) observed that at the Regional Police headquarters as at 0900 hours, 117 personnel had voted out of  656 eligible voters designated to cast ballot at the centre while  at the Fire Service  Headquarters,  85  out of 435 personnel had voted  as at 0914 hours.    Mr Anthony Nyame, Cape Coast Metropolitan Director of the EC, told GNA that voting started exactly at 0700 hours and that there were enough voting materials for the exercise.   He said agents of political parties contesting the December 7 polls were present to observe the exercise.

GNA