The arrangement for the Electoral Commission to register students on their various campuses is to avoid having them go home to register, with its attendant inconveniences.
The EC facilitates their registration on campuses so they would not be disenfranchised, with an opportunity to transfer their votes later.
With the claim that all along this was why students were called to school, is unfounded because these students could have registered at home.
Had EC not made arrangements, government would have been blamed for insensitively disenfranchising these students.
MoE decided students should not be made to go home and register, putting them in harm’s way by getting them to travel around the country on public transport or other means at extra cost to their parents, hence their registration being facilitated by the EC on campuses.
With these arrangements, EC is to ensure that their staff observe the enhanced protocols laid down by government in various schools.
Staff and management of schools will also take advantage and register whilst in school as well as support this exercise to it’s successful end as they have supported with all directives.
Kwasi OBENG-FOSU
Deputy PRO
Ministry of Education
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