The Savannah Regional Police command in collaboration with the military has designed measures aimed at ensuring the safety of indigenes and prospective registrants who are being bused to Damongo in the West Gonja Municipality of the region for the voters’ registration exercise.

The move, according to a source was to also neutralise the current political tension between New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the area.

The joint tea has already foiled a potential clash between supporters of the two political parties at Fufulso, a suburb of Central Gonja district where three buses heading to the region from Accra were stopped from entering Damongo.

Savannah Regional Police Commander, DCOP Enock Adetwum Bediako told JoyNews "no one has the power to deny anybody from registering."

"The security got there and made the people understand that it is not right and that they should leave them to go. If they had any challenge, they should pick challenge forms to do so. So there was an understanding," he said.

Campaign Chairman of an Independent Parliamentary Candidate for Damongo Constituency, Soale Ahmed Abdul Razack in an interview with JoyNews said his candidate had found it necessary to help residents outside Damongo to come home and register.

"They are from Damango but stay in Accra...Every four years when they are coming to vote we have to look for a vehicle for them. They are coming to register and their honourable gave them a car to come and do so... and the car will send them back again," Soale said.

But the Savannah Regional Chairman of the NPP, Iddrisu Sulemana believes his party was wrongfully accused by NDC for busing people to Damongo to participate in the process.

He added that the arrival of these buses from Accra have exposed the Member of Parliament for Damongo, Adam Mutawakilu as the one doing the busing.