The Upper East Regional Chairman of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), Mohammed Nurudeen Issahaq has reiterated the call on political parties to go about their campaigns with decorum to ensure peaceful election. He urged the parties to especially take the education of their polling station agents seriously adding that it is the moral duty of all political parties to ensure a peaceful election. Mr. Issahaq made the call at a public forum organized by the Upper East Regional Office of the Electoral Commission, for parliamentary candidates in the region.
It was dubbed Safeguarding the Integrity of the Ballot. The Regional Chairman also urged the candidates to be guided by the ideas of nation building. A Director of Training at the headquarters of the Electoral Commisssion (EC), Mr. Charles Osei Addei said the commission has designed a programme to train polling station agents.
Mr. Addei said candidates should select polling agents who have minimum educational qualification and could easily discern between issues with a good sense of judgement.