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The Sunyani Municipal Office of the Electoral Commission (EC) could not progress in the on-going Limited Voters Registration Exercise as expected on Monday because of slow network challenge.

As a result the Centre could not print out the voter identity cards for those who had been registered, Mr. Daniel Cheremeh Ankamah-Ofosu, a registration officer told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in an interview in Sunyani.

As at 1400 hours when the GNA visited the place only two persons had been registered per the biometric voter registration machine (BVM) while 75 others were done by the manual process “which is a backup procedure”, he said.

Mr. Ankamah-Ofosu explained that the biometric machine had not facilitated the progress of the exercise since 0700 hours when it began and added that those who had turned 18 were in the majority of those who had been registered.

A prospective voter, Ms. Patience Adjei told the GNA that she had queued for four hours because the BVM was not working but “I will patiently wait to be registered because my vote is my power to decide the political direction of the country in especially the Election 2020”.