Ho, Sept 14, GNA-The exercise to take photos of prospective voters who could not get their pictures for their Voter Identity Cards, due to material shortages during the last limited registration exercise, is going on smoothly in the Ho Municipality.

Thirteen teams, each made up of a Photographer and a Clerk are scheduled to take pictures of close to 5,000 prospective voters in the municipality during the five-day mopping-up exercise. Mr Johnson Akafia, Ho Municipal Area Director of the Electoral Commission of Ghana, (EC) said the schedule of the teams were based on statistics of numbers pending in the various electoral areas. He said the teams would stay for the entire period at electoral areas where figures of those who could not have their pictures taken were high.

Mr Akafia said mobile teams would be available at areas with low numbers at appointed days within the five-day programme, promising that variations in schedules, based on reports on the ground, would be made to ensure total success of the exercise in the municipality. He said the exercise would also cover people who missed taking pictures during the 2004 and 2006 registration exercises and had slips to show.

Mr Akafia said besides EC programmes to publicize the programme, the Political Parties, were also using their channels of communications to get the message to the people. The centre at the offices of the Electoral Commission in Ho, where 38 photos were taken on the first day of the exercise on Friday, was without a queue when the GNA called.