Voters’ Registration: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Asks Details of Eligible Citizens Abroad For Possible Capture

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration is putting in place measures together with the Electoral Commission (EC) to register a select category of Ghanaians abroad.

The arrangements is to allow persons working in Ghana’s diplomatic missions, persons working with international organisations of which Ghana is a member and Ghanaian students on Government scholarship, to be registered in the countries where they reside.

In a communiqué to the Ghana Embassy in the Czech Republic, it was indicated that Ghanaian diplomats, international civil servants and students on Government scholarship abroad would benefit from an online registration.

The communiqué noted that they are expecting a request to the EC from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration.

“In anticipation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration’s request to the Electoral Commission to register Ghana Government-sponsored students abroad, you are kindly requested to urgently complete the following data…”

The data requested included passport numbers and polling stations.

“The completed information should reach the Mission by close of day 14th August 2020 for a very important national exercise,” the communiqué noted.

Source: GhanaFeed.Com