Ambrose Dery Denies Allegation Of Sending Security Personnel To Volta Region To Prevent People To Register In EC Exercise

Minister of Interior, Ambrose Dery has denied allegations from the minority in Parliament that security personnel were sent to the Volta Region to prevent people from registering in the upcoming voter registration exercise.

According to the Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery, security personnel have been sent to the Eastern border since the outbreak of COVID-19 in Ghana.

He disclosed that ten foreingners who entered the country illegally and tested positive to COVID-19 in the Northern Region entered the country from the Eastern border.

“We closed the borders as part the COVID-19 Protocols. Are experience over the time is that the Eastern border continues to give us a course for worrying because people are still coming in. We have discovered over 250 unapproved routes. The Police and Military being there is protect our borders. If you look at our neighbours they do not have the testing records we have. Togo, Burkina Faso, La Cote D’voire do not have the testing records. We are doing all we can to prevent COVID-19,” Mr Dery noted.

Mr. Dery added that the Government would not prevent qualified Ghanaians from registering during the voter registration exercise.

The Minority in Parliament has accused government of deliberately sending security personnel to border towns in the Volta Region to prevent people from taking part in the upcoming voter registration exercise .

Sorce: firstnewsroom.com