The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has through it’s General Secretary defended the deployment of military officers to various border towns during the just ended voter registration exercise.
According to the party’s Chief Scribe, John Boadu, it was necessary to use the military to guard these borders and prevent foreigners from getting their names into the voter register.
Speaking at a press conference on Monday August 10, John Boadu said, “We should not confuse the genuine efforts to police the borders throughout the country to mean that the NPP is against anyone. Elections in Ghana are for Ghanaians. Yet as we speak, a number of Togolese and Nigerians have either been convicted or have their cases pending at the Keta Circuit Court charged with registering for a Ghanaian voter ID card.”
“So in the midst of all these things, it is also true and it has been established beyond a reasonable doubt that people that are not Ghanaians have tried. Some of them succeeded in getting their names in our registered. They were arrested and tried by a competent court of jurisdiction,” he added.
Source: GhanaFeed.Com