SECURITY TASKFORCE TO PROTECT ELECTIONS IN ASHANTI

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The Ashanti Regional Minister, Dr. Samuel Sarpong has inaugurated a Security Taskforce that has the mandate to provide security and protection for the upcoming District Level Elections in the Ashanti region. 


The Taskforce, with membership from the Military, Prisons, Fire Service, Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority and the Police, has the Ashanti Regional Police Commander, DCoP Nathan Kofi Boakye as its Chairman.

 Inaugurating the Taskforce in Kumasi, Dr. Sarpong, who is as well the Chairman of the Regional Security Council, underscored the fact that the District Assembly and Unit Committee form the basic units of Ghana’s decentralization and governance structure, with the responsibility to spearhead socio-economic development of the citizenry at the grassroots. 

However, the 1992 Republican Constitution has provided for the election of members of the Assemblies and the Unit Committee periodically to constitute the Assemblies and Unit Committees. 

It is in line with this legal requirement that that the Electoral Commission is organizing the District Level Elections on Tuesday, to reconstitute the Assemblies and Units for the people to choose their own representatives. 

The exercise, Dr. Sarpong emphasized, should be devoid of partisan politics.

 In view of this, the Regional Minister and MMDCEs will not be members of the Security Taskforce to provide a fair, objective, transparent and free grounds for all the candidates to contest for the votes of the electorate. 

The Regional Minister explained that the Regional District Level Elections Security Taskforce is to ensure peace and security for a smooth conduct of the elections without intimidation. 

The Chairman of the Taskforce, DCoP Kofi Boakye assured that the Taskforce will execute its mandate without any political consideration and will deal decisively with any acts of violence that could threaten the success of the exercise. 

According to him, the Taskforce will deploy security personnel to all the four thousand, 628 polling centres and the one thousand and 58 Collation Centres earmarked for the elections.

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