'Desist from selling your votes'
The electorate have been advised to desist from selling their voter rights to politicians ahead of the district level and the 2016 general elections.
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They have further been asked to vote with their conscience for candidates that offer the best possibility to improve their standard of living.
The call was made at a workshop organised by the Western Regional Directorate of the Electoral Commission (EC), which was supported by the European Union (EU). It was on the theme, “Enhancing Participation and Stakeholder Confidence in Ghana's Election Process.”
According to them, vote buying politicians were those who had introduced black magic into the electoral process by compelling voters to swear to deities.
Participants pointed out that those who influenced voters through such unorthodox and crooked methods did not deserve to represent them either at the assembly or Parliament.
Similarly, they tasked officials of EC at the polling stations to be neutral in the discharge of their duties.
It was also suggested that the media and the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) should be resourced enough to enable them to educate the voting public on the electoral law and processes.
The Western Regional Director of the Electoral Commission, Mr Stephen Opoku-Mensah, tasked stakeholders, the media and the NCCE to assist the Commission to conduct credible, free and fair elections in the country.
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Mr Opoku-Mensah appreciated the contribution of the media to the success of previous elections and implored them to continue sensitising the electorate to the electoral law and its attendant procedures.