PPP polling agents appeal for payment of allowances

This explanation did not go down well with the agents, especially Miss Quansah who said at the time she was asked to be an agent for the party, she was nursing her one-month-old baby and she had to engage a baby-sitter with the promise of sharing her allowance with the person.

“If we had been told that we were going to do the work for free, we would not have wasted our time,” Miss Quansah said.

 When Mr Martin Ekwam, the Constituency Chairman for the PPP, was contacted he denied the accusation of the agents.

Mr Ekwam said the party promised to provide each agent with a plate of rice and egg, a biscuit and a drink on the day of the election at the polling station and added that they were each given some money on the day they were presented with their accreditation.

Ms Leah Anderson Sinyason, the party's parliamentary candidate, also corroborated the constituency chairman's statement when she was contacted.

She added that the agents were recruited from the party and therefore were expected to sacrifice to build the party. - GNA