The Upper West Regional Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Stephen Engmen, has called on the Electoral Commission to come out with a timetable which must be made available to all political parties to enable them follow the various phases of the biometric registration process. “This, we hope, will prevent multiple registrations and voting, we are also calling on the EC to make sure that the system of biometric registration is able to detect multiple registrations and voting”, he told the Daily Graphic in an interview. He said the NPP was prepared to support the EC in the biometric registration exercise to avoid any manipulation by any group of people. He was sure that if this was well done, it would deepen the country’s democracy. Mr Engmen, said since the exercise was going to be a new system, the EC should do a lot of education with the electorate before October, November and December next year. In another development, a member of the communication team of the NPP in the Wa Central Constituency, Mr Mujeeb Rahman, has observed that six months to elections was too short to market the yet to be selected running mate of the party. He therefore suggested that the party should reconsider its decision by either selecting the running mate either in December this year or January next year “for us to have ample time to market the candidate.” He was of the view that the party should adopt a three-tier approach of campaigning with the running mate and his team, the f1ag-bearer as well as former President J.A. Kufuor leading different wings. “When this is done, we will be able to explain our manifesto to the electorate effectively”, he added. Touching on the performance of the government, he said it had not been able to accomplish its campaign promises of tackling unemployment, high prices of goods and services, intermittent shortage of gas, concerns of teachers, among others. He said in spite of all these, the NPP would not be complacent and would get to every nook and cranny of Ghana to explain its manifesto to the people. Mr Rahman, a former Wa Central Constituency Secretary of the NPP, regretted that a year after cutting sod for work to begin on the new regional hospital; nothing has been done on the ground. He, therefore, challenged the NDC to start the project if the party was not taking the people of the Upper West Region for granted. Source: Daily Graphic/Ghana