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By Yussif Ibrahim<\/p>\n
Kumasi, Nov. 19, GNA \u2013 The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly Local Accountability Network (KMA LANet) has taken first-time voter education campaign to nine educational and religious institutions in the Ashanti Region.<\/p>\n
A total of 20,997 people were educated on the processes involved in casting a ballot as part of efforts to reduce the number of spoilt and rejected ballots in this year\u2019s election.<\/p>\n
The campaign, which is being implemented by the Ghana Anti- Corruption Coalition (GACC) through the KMA LANet, which is its local partners, seeks to empower first-time voters with the requisite knowledge and tools to participate meaningfully and make informed decision during Ghana\u2019s 2024 election.<\/p>\n
The initiative dubbed, \u201cThe Youth Voice: Activating First-Time Voters for Ghana\u2019s General Elections 2024\u201d, is being funded by the U.S Embassy and the Hewlett Foundation.<\/p>\n
Institutions visited as part of the campaign included seven in the education sector and two churches in the Kumasi Metropolis, Bekwai Municipality, and the Bosomtwe District.<\/p>\n
They were the Islamic Senior High School, Kumasi Technical Institute, Serwaah Nyarko Girls Senior High School, Kumasi Girls Senior High School, and Kumasi Senior High Technical School.<\/p>\n
The rest were Kokofu Nursing and Midwifery Training College, St Michael Nursing and Midwifery Training College, St. Peters Basilica Youth Church, and the Feyiase Church of Pentecost.<\/p>\n
Young people in these institutions were educated on the need to avoid electoral fraud such as vote buying, vote tampering, bribery, underage voting and violence.<\/p>\n
Resource persons who facilitated the exercise were drawn from the institutions visited, National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), Electoral Commission (EC), Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) and the KMA LANet.<\/p>\n
Madam Aba Oppong, Executive Director of Rights and Responsibilities Initiative Ghana and Chair of KMA LANet, said as first-time voters they needed to uphold peaceful election principles and avoid electoral fraud.<\/p>\n
She took them through the rights and responsibilities of first-time voters as well as what they needed to do on the Election Day.<\/p>\n
First-time voters, she noted, must participate in the process to elect leaders with integrity to strengthen Ghana\u2019s democracy.<\/p>\n
They must not serve as instruments to perpetrate violence by any politician because they had their future ahead of them, she advised.<\/p>\n
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