Late Ghanaian President Atta Mills’ Name Still In Voters’ Register

• Posted on September 4, 2012
• by Nana Kwesi Coomson
• Comment

One of the reasons for the ongoing exhibition of voters’ register is for relatives to provide information on the death of their relatoins to the Electoral Commission, to enable officials expunge those names from the register to ensure a clean register for the December election.

But three days into the ten-days exercise, the name of late President John Evans Atta Mills, who died on the 24th July, 2012 at the 37 Military Hospital in Accra, has not been deleted from the voters’ register.

The late President Mills on Thursday 5th April, 2012, took his turn to register at the Golden Gate Centre polling station at the Regimanuel Grey Estate on the Spintex Road in the Ledzokuku Constituency of the Greater Accra Region.

The late President, it would be recalled, went through the registration process in about 15 minutes and was given his biometric card.Nyankonton Mu Nsem’s Afia Owusu Afriyie reports from the Golden Gate Centre polling station at the Regimanuel Grey Estate on Spintex Road that, his name was still in the voters’ register.

The late President had ID number 2079018392 with the age, 67, since he was not yet 68 as at the time of registration.The Electoral Officer at the polling station, Emmanuel Arhin said he believed by the end of the registration, a family member would come with relevant documentation for the deletion of the name of the late President Mills.

Ato Sam Enti who registered the late President on that faithful Thursday 5th April, 2012, said the late President did not jump the queue even though he was then President.

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