Below are the top stories from the Dailies:
1. Biometric voters' registration exercise updates
2. GCPP on economic change
From the Daily Graphic, we are told that Four Million Register, Over 600 Cases of Multiple Registration. Four million one hundred thousand eligible voters registered during the first phase of the ongoing biometric voters registration exercise, the Electoral Commission has said. According to the EC, more than 600 instances of multiple registrations have so far been detected. The paper also reports about the EC's intention to introduce continuous voter registration. The Electoral Commission is to introduce a continuous voter registration system at all its offices for people who qualify to vote in elections, including those who attain the stipulated voting age of eighteen years. It goes on to say that the continuous registration will thus bring to an end the usually long wait by newly qualified voters for the EC's periodic registration.
Loss of Biometric Laptop Will Not Affect 2012 Elections-EC. The Central Regional Director of the Electoral Commission (EC) ,Mrs. Philomena Edusei, has stated that the recent loss of biometric laptop at Agona Swedru in the Central Region will not affect the upcoming 2012 elections. In an exclusive interview with Daily Dispatch, Mrs. Edusei hinted that the laptop being used by the EC in the ongoing biometric registration is specially designed purposely for the EC and the registration exercise such that no individual can use it in any other business.
Reporting on hitches of the biometric exercise, The Chronicle states that Ashanti tops disruption league. It is official the Ashanti Region bears the biggest brunt of disruptions to the registration exercise raising fears that the recommendation of a group of academics who authored a document on how the National Democratic Congress (NDC) could rig the December elections , might be in practice. According to Dr. Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, Chairman of the Electoral Commission, the Ashanti Region has become the hotbed of registration disruptions.
Lastly, Daily Guide informs us that Assembly member for the Sakpare Electoral Area, Ayendago Francis Haddo, will appear in court on April 10 for allegedly slapping a registration official, Francis Aduk, at the Sakpare polling Station in the Binduri Constituency in Bawku. In the headline, Assembly Man slaps registration officer, the paper adds that Mr. Haddo was reported to have pounced on the registration official and slapped him, after a misunderstanding had ensued between his (Haddo's) wife and the EC officials at the Sakpare Polling Station.
As we round up with the day's review, a story from the Daily Guide indicates that GCPP will focus on economic change. The acting Chairman and Leader of the Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP), Dr. Henry Herbert Lartey, has disclosed that the strategy of the Party is not about political power but rather to focus on economic change. He said it was the belief of the GCPP that Ghana was capable of doing a lot more for its people , and that the people were equally capable of doing same for the nation.
This daily news review is compiled by African Elections Project (AEP) Media Monitoring Centre, Accra, Ghana.
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