{"id":273695,"date":"2016-12-03T06:08:34","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T06:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=273695"},"modified":"2016-12-03T06:08:34","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T06:08:34","slug":"allow-personnel-to-vote-on-sunday-unit-commanders-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/12\/allow-personnel-to-vote-on-sunday-unit-commanders-told\/","title":{"rendered":"Allow personnel to vote on Sunday – Unit commanders told"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Police administration has directed all unit commanders to allow their subordinate staff to participate in the special voters’ registration exercise on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The Electoral Commission (EC) together with stakeholders, at an emergency Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) meeting on Thursday evening, decided to extend the special voting exercise to Sunday, December 4, to allow persons who couldn\u2019t vote to do so.<\/p>\n
Following this, the Director of Public Affairs of the Ghana Police Service, Superintendent Cephas Arthur, assured that the affected police officers have been given ample time to exercise their franchise.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlready the administration had issued a directive to all personnel, especially those who didn\u2019t find their name on the special voters register to go to their original places of voting to go and do so.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWith the new list given by the EC, the police administration has\u00a0tasked\u00a0all the commanders to ensure that all their personnel take advantage of this opportunity to exercise their franchise by voting and that they have giving them up to the voting period to vote and return,\u201d he said in a Citi News<\/strong> interview.<\/p>\n Superintendent Arthur also indicated that the directive would not affect election day security arrangements as a greater portion of the deployments were being done within the regions the personnel would be voting in.<\/p>\n \u201cThey will have the rest of Sunday, the whole of\u00a0Monday, the whole of Tuesday to get back to their duty points,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By:\u00a0Delali\u00a0Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Police administration has directed all unit commanders to allow their subordinate staff to participate in the special voters’ registration exercise on Sunday. The Electoral Commission (EC) together with stakeholders, at an emergency Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) meeting on Thursday evening, decided to extend the special voting exercise to Sunday, December 4, to allow persons […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n