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Acting General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) John Boadu has slammed institutions in charge of maintaining law and order at the polling stations for failing to curtail the violent acts that have since characterized the ongoing registration exercise.

John Boadu, speaking on 'kokrokoo' on Peace FM, spoke against the culture where people are bused from neighbouring countries to register their names and become eligible to vote in the November 7 polls.

According to him, the institutions should step their game and prevent violence at the polling stations.

Alluding to the detention of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Ashanti Regional Chairman Bernard Antwi Bosiako, popularly called 'Chairman Wontumi'; John Boadu called on the Police administration to equally clamp down on other people who are creating an "industry in flouting our laws with impunity".

"If it's NPP people doing it; that is why we have the Police. If it's the NDC also doing it; that is why we have the Police and the security agencies. Otherwise, what you're telling us is to raise our own security to defend ourselves," he said.

He further bemoaned the bias of the security institutions in apprehending perpetrators of violence.

"If we feel that our laws are not necessary and so it's an ECOWAS election we are doing, let's make it an ECOWAS election and bus everyone from all sorts of places to register and vote. When you win, you win."