Accra, May 1, GNA - A three-day training programme for polling agents of the NPP opened in Accra on Saturday with a call on the trainees to be vigilant during this year's general election.

It is the third in a series being organised by the party to ensure fair play at polling stations during the elections. Mr Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey, National Campaign Manager, advised the participants to be serious with the programme because elections are won or lost at the polling station.

"If we allow ourselves to be cheated this time round, we have committed a great crime to generations yet unborn and it is better to sacrifice ourselves now." He cautioned members of the party not to think that the prevailing economic hardships would automatically win votes for the party but intensify their groundwork for total victory in both the parliamentary and presidential elections.

Mr Obetsebi-Lamptey said the best way for people to advance peacefully was through the practice of democracy, adding that the NPP would prove to the world that Ghanaians, and for that matter Africans, are not war mongers but are capable of discussing issues dispassionately to reach a consensus.

Mr Laud Commey, head of the resource team, briefed the regional executives on the training programme, which, he said, would go a long way in closing all electoral loopholes.