One of the finest pollsters in Ghana, Ben Ephson has charged political parties to invest more in training polling station agents to effectively monitor elections.
His advice follows Tuesday’s comment by former President John Mahama that the 2024 election will be a “do-or-die affair” at the polling stations.
Speaking to the media, Ephson said: “If you are a political party and you go and take a half-educated human being who has no link to your party and you tell the person I will give you GHS200 to be my polling station agent”
“You give him GHS100 and tell him that at the end of the day, you will bring him an extra GHS100, at 2:30pm your opponent at the polling station gives him double what you promised him and they ask him to sign the pink sheet and leave before voting ends and he does it, why will you be crying?”
Ephson added: “That is what they do, so you don’t need to kill anybody, you just need to train 50,000 …if it’s 45000 polling stations, 5,000 on standbys.”
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Evans Boateng
