We begin today's review with the Daily Guide and it indicates that Brong Ahafo registers 1.2m Voters. A Total of 1,248,348 voters have been registered to exercise their franchise in the impending December 7 presidential and parliamentary elections. The Brong Ahafo Regional Director of the Electoral Commission (EC) George Gyabaah, who disclosed this to Daily Guide in an exclusive interview in Sunyani, said the provisional figure of over 1.2m voters was capture in the recently-held biometric voters registration exercise.
The Ghanaian Times reports that a National Elections Taskforce will soon be established to facilitate a conducive environment, for Elections, 2012 to take place, the inspector General of Police, Mr. Paul Tawiah Quaye has assured Ghanaians. The Taskforce made up of the Ghana Police Service, the Ghana Armed Forces, National Security, and Bureau of National Investigations. Electoral Commission, Immigration Service, Customs Excise and Preventive Service, the Ghana National Fire Service, Ghana Prison Service, the Research Department of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture.
News from the Daily Dispatch reveals that Ashanti PPP on low education in Cocoa growing areas. The Ashanti Regional branch of the Progressive People's Party (PPP) has decried the poor state of education in the cocoa growing areas and other deprived communities in the country and called for urgent measures to address the problem. They therefore reiterated the assurance that when PPP led by Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom is voted into power in the 2012 elections, their education policy would be free ,compulsory , and continuous from kindergarten up the Senior High School (SHS) level to help improve the standard of education as well as making it possible for everybody to access education.
More news from the camp of PPP as the Ghanaian Times reports under the headline Dr. Nduom: I will create jobs that the presidential candidate of the Progressive People's Party (PPP) Dr. Paa Kwesi Nduom has asked Ghanaians to vote for a candidate who has the potential and capability to create jobs in the country. He said that the electorate would no longer be interested in hearing false promises from politicians who are not business oriented and end up creating phantom jobs.
In other developments, Daily Graphic informs readers that Independent aspirant eyes Ofoase –Ayerebi seat. A 36 year-old pastor, Rev. Dr. Jerry Asiedu Appiah , has expressed his intention to stand as an independent parliamentary candidate for the Ofoase-Ayirebi Constituency in the Akyemansah District of the Eastern Region in the December 7, 2012 presidential and parliamentary polls. Rev. Dr. Appiah (a.k.a Teacher Appiah) who hails from Akyem Ayirebi made his intention known in Ayirebi in an interview with the Ghana News Agency.
Meanwhile, the Daily Guide brings to our notice that New Patriotic Party (NPP) Presidential Candidate, Nana Akufo-Addo has urged party supporters to fully support their parliamentary candidates to ensure success in the December polls. Under the heading Nana calls for Unity. He said such unflinching support will complement the hard the party has done to guarantee victory in the upcoming elections.
The Chronicle informs us that DAASEBRE OGUAKRO Osei Bediako II, Omahene of Sabronum Traditional Area in the Ashanti Region has advised Ghanaians to desist from partisan politics and remain united as one people and support the government. According to him, partisan politics impede development and progress in the country.
From the same paper, Poilticians cautioned against exploitation of youth. An ISLAMIC scholar in Kumasi has called on politicians to leave the youth out of acts that might set the nation ablaze before, during and after the December elections. Sheik Dr. Ismail Saeed Adam, who is also the Director-General of Sakafia Islamic Education Complex in Kumasi, noted that the youth are the viable seed of tomorrow's leadership and should not be destroyed today by politicians, who are lusting after power at the expense of nation building.
Finally in today's review and still from the Chronicle Politicians cautioned to be circumspect with promises .Rev. Dr. John B. Gharty, the General Secretary of Assemblies of God (A/G), Ghana, has cautioned politicians to be wary of their promises in order not find them wanting after they are voted to power. He noted that with the elections drawing near , it is common for some politicians to intentionally promise the electorate heaven in order to influence the conscience of the people , even though they are conscious some of them are not relevant and unachievable.
This daily news review is compiled by African Elections Project (AEP) Media Monitoring Centre, Accra, Ghana.
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