The Electoral Commission of the Bole Municipality has organised a training workshop for the People Living with Disability, especially the blind on how to use the tactile jackets ahead of the 7th December elections.
Speaking to Bole based Nkilgi fm, the Municipal Director for the Electoral Commission Mr. Isaac Gyadua said the People Living with Disability is very important and we have to accord them with that respect.
He said the date December 7th parliamentary and Presidential elections is approaching and so it has become necessary for the electoral commission to train them how to vote with the tactile jacket.
Mr Gyadua said after teaching some of the blind the voting process, they will also teach their colleagues who are not able to make it to the workshop and as sell encourage them to come out in their numbers to vote.
The Bole Municipal EC officer added that the voting centers will be very friendly and will they will set up at places that will be friendly to all manner of persons and so the persons with disabilities will not be left out.
Mr Isaac Gyedua said nobody will intimidate anybody at any of their polling centers and that they have trained their officers to give people with Disability with preferential treatment.
He said right when anybody with disability gets to the polling center to vote, they will be given that preferential treatment.
Mr. Salifu Adama who is the President of the Ghana Blind Union in the Savannah Region spoke on behalf the blind thanked the Electoral Commission for giving them such a wonderful trained.
He said they are training them on how to vote and wants to use the opportunity to urge other equally challenged members to take the training serious for them not to allow them to allow anybody influence them to vote.
Mr Salifu Adama said they are countless in the Municipality, but only 25 of them are fortunate to be part of the workshop because the government doesn’t have money to train above that number.
He thanked the president of Ghana Blind Union Dr. David Azari and the Executive Director of the Ghana Blind Union Dr. Peter Obeng Asamoah doing all he could for that opportunity for them to be trained.
Source: nkilgifmonline.com
