The polling agents were informed by agents from other constituencies that
each polling station agent was given GHC400 and not GHC200.
However, the NDC's regional Vice Chair, Alex Attivor Sawyer, has argued that the chief was not fully engaged as a party
polling station agent on the day of elections as being reported.
Some polling station agents of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Kintampo North Constituency of the Brong Ahafo Region, have accused their executives of diverting about GHc 37,100.00 meant for them as allowance for their contribution towards the party's campaign ahead of the 2016 general elections.
The facility was taken to complement the resources we had raised to support the operations of
our Polling Station Agents.
«They are distributing this walkie - talkie machine to all
the polling station agents of the NDC so that when they block social media and other radio stations, they will still have access to communicate with themselves», Wontumi said in an interview on Accra - based Okay FM.
The about 38 - year old small - scale miner popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, had stated that he would lead attacks on all NDC
polling station agents in the Ashanti region, if Social Media is blocked on Election Day as suggested by the Inspector General of Police (IGP).
The GHC 2,290,631.36 million loan was obtained to support the operations of the party's
polling station agents during the 2012 general elections.
Not exact matches
He admitted the party recruited some
polling agents and deployed two
agents to each of the 143
polling stations, but said they were all GHc 100.00 cedis for discharging their duties.
The opposition, which has accused the government of trying to rig the
poll, listed some problems, from
agents being denied entry to
polling stations, to names missing from the register and electronic voter identification devices failing.
Speaking to a member of Akufo - Addo's campaign team who blurted out his frustrations against the system on condition of anonymity, he indicated that, last week Friday, the campaign team «approved» and «made available» a cash amount of Ghc 2 million for Hiring of Buses and payments for
polling station allowances of the party's
agent in all 275 constituencies.
Meanwhile, the Kenyan Human Rights Commission said it had discovered some discrepancies in an initial comparison between provisional results announced by the election commission and paper forms signed at
polling stations by party
agents.
He reported that, the New Patriotic Party and the Convention People's Party's
polling agents at the Bolgatanga Regional House of Chiefs
polling station, protested vehemently against some police recruits, who were brought from the Pwalugu Police training school to vote.
Two (2) unknown
polling stations called Mallam Fari Mosque Destruction of some ballot boxes to conceal evidence Furnish me with all
polling station and summary pink sheets as i withdrew imposters purported as my
agents.
«Not only does CODEO's PVT estimates match the official results of the EC, but our observers also reported that the main two parties — the NPP and NDC had
agents at 99 % of
polling stations,» she added.
According to the spokesperson for the aggrieved
agents Joenal Bang Yibil, the party executives hired the services of two persons each of the 143
polling stations instead of four persons supposed to be hired.
Speaking in an interview with Chief Jerry Forson, host of Ghana Yensom on Accra 100.5 FM on Friday December 16, Mr Afotey Agbo said: «Some of our people (
agents) were not vigilant at the
polling stations because instead of sitting close to the
polling officers who were issuing the ballot papers, they were asked to keep a distance and out of ignorance or influence, they did.
Nana Akufo - Addo urged NPP
agents at the
polling station to remain vigilant during the remainder of the 21 - day exercise.
We are going to be working with about almost 146,000 staff on election day; and at the 29,000
polling stations and coalition centers, all candidates and parties have
agents there.»
According to him, they carefully selected and trained
agents to match up to the needs that was needed to secure the election results from
polling stations, delivered it to every NPP constituency collation centre and from that point, the «efficient» technology staff accurately keyed in each detail on the pink sheet into computers.
The head election
agent at the
polling station in question said «One of our election workers was in a
polling station early this morning reading a Kindle e-reader.