Chaos was recorded at the City Engineers polling station in the Odododiodoo Constituency in the Greater Accra Region after some voters budged into the centre despite the presence of security officers.
The voters who had formed a long queue in front of the main entrance to the centre forced themselves into the polling station after the gates were locked, and opened at the time when there were lots of voters stranded beyond the gates,
Security officers and the Electoral Commission’s officials supervising had a difficult time controlling the crowd as they were overpowered by the impatient voters who had been in the queue since the early hours of the day.
After forcibly getting to the centre, some voters engaged in fisticuffs as they were unable to rearrange themselves into the queues they had already formed outside the main entrance.
Reports says, some disgruntled voters alleged that the EC and security officers were circumventing the process by allowing persons who had not joined the queue into the premises.
“We came here at dawn to form the queue, but after hours of staying here, the officers will just come and allow some persons in. The police officers are not doing anything about it, they are just here looking on without taking any action. They are not giving us the opportunity to get in that is why we had to force our way in”, one of the voters lamented.
“The police cannot manage the situation here. This is Ododiodioo and you know the situation here. The police are unable to manage the situation properly”, another voter intimated.
Meanwhile, a police reinforcement team from the James Town Divisional Police Command was able to restore law and order at the Centre.
Godfred Sey /Ahotoronline.com
