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A former deputy Constituency Youth Organiser of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) in Hohoe, Volta Region, Mr. Harker Brempong has fingered the General Secretary of the NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah and other NDC executives as allegedly behind the move to recruit Togolese nationals to vote in Ghana’s 2012 and previous general elections.

An exercise carried out by the New Patriotic Party (NPP), led by Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, last week had earlier revealed that several thousands of Togolese nationals had succeeded in having their names on Ghana’s electoral register.

With only 10 percent of work completed so far, regarding the ongoing investigations being conducted into the existing voters’ registers of the two countries, the NPP says it had managed to identify not less than 76,286 persons whose faces had been captured in both the Ghanaian and Togolese voters’ registers.

In an apparent confirmation of the development, a group of former NDC activists said they actively participated in the recruitment of the Togolese for registration into the electoral roll of Ghana.

Commenting further on the revelation, Mr. Harker Brempong told Kwame Nkrumah Tikese, host of Okay Fm’s "Ade Akye Abia" Morning Show that the NDC Chief Scribe and other top executive members, through the connivance of the Hohoe MCE, contracted them to carry out the registration exercise. 

“….Asiedu Nketiah, NDC hierarchy, all of them know something about it. All the party executives at the top; the former Volta regional minister (Hon. Afotey Agbo), they know it,” he alleged.

He however indicated that 10,000 people were registered in Hohoe constituency as the party [NDC] heads gave out items like wellington boots, mattresses and free National Health Insurance ID cards including Gh¢100.00 to each voter.

He again revealed the Togolese nationals who are usually used for this exercise are those on the border lines as they are brought into the Volta region a day before the elections and then go back after the elections are over.

Even though other political agents are always present during the voters’ registration exercise, Harker Brempong averred the agents are sometimes too afraid to complain to the authorities, for fear of victimization, because the NDC government is in power.