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We will not stop 'Togo voters' - IGP
The IGP’s comments come a just a day after the flagbearer of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo appealed to Togolese to stay off Ghana’s elections.
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Addressing journalists during a day’s visit to the Volta Region, the Inspector General of Police said: “I don’t think the Togolese have any mandate to come and vote here; but you know the long standing history between the Volta Region and Togo. All that we are saying is that, any Ghanaian is free to stay anywhere and work. So if you are even living outside the African Continent and you are duly registered and your papers are ready, you can fly in, nobody can stop you at the airport. In the same wise if you find yourself in a country within our borders, I don’t think anybody should be prevented.”
“The security agency would ensure that everybody who is supposed to vote or who is to have easy access to and from the country across the borders to be allowed to vote. If you have any problem with anybody, it should be at the polling station; to see that he is not duly registered, he is coming to be an imposter or unlawfully voting” he added.
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The opposition New Patriotic Party in the Volta Region recently launched a campaign dubbed “operations eagle eye” that aims to keep surveillance at the Ghana-Togo frontier to prevent what they claim are Togolese nationals from entering the country to vote.
The governing NDC has, however, vowed to ensure eligible Ghanaians working in Togo moves into the country to vote.
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