Ghana: No Intimidation Please, We Need New Voters' Register

editorial

A news report in some of what Mr. Martin Amidu, this nation's sole Citizen Vigilante, referred to as "NDC rented press" yesterday, suggest that the police would soon arrest a group of people who volunteered information to an Accra daily newspaper on the bloated national voters register, to face what the papers described as "the full rigours of the law."

The group had dropped a bombshell to the effect that a number of Togolese have their names firmly tugged in Ghana's voters register and that, as foot soldiers of the ruling party at the time, they were used by some unnamed National Democratic Congress officials to facilitate the entry into and from Ghana by those Togolese to register and vote in this nation's Presidential and Legislative elections.

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