Registration Officers with Special Duties (RoDs) hired to undertake the voter’s registration exercise for the 2020 Presidential and Parliamentary elections is up in arms with the Municipal Electoral Officer for allegedly squandering their transportation allowance.
The RODs numbering about twenty-three are accusing the Municipal Electoral Officer Christable Yeboah Asante of paying less than half of the transportation allowance of Ghc1000 due to each officer for the voter’s registration exercise.
They also say, in demanding what is due them, the Municipal Electoral Officer has deliberately sidelined them in the voter’s exhibition exercise.
“We wish that she was going to include us in the registration exercise so at least we get something to replace the short-changed. So we were there when they were calling people for the exhibition exercise but we were not called because we complained over our monies” one of the officers told Starr News on condition of anonymity.
But the Abuakwa South Municipal Electoral Officer Christable Yeboah Asante denied squandering the allowance of the RODs when contacted by mybrytfmonilne.com.
She explained that some office staff was hired to do the work of the RODs during the voter’s registration exercise due to delay in releasing their allowances therefore shared their allowances with the people she hired.
“I had some people at the office who were collecting the data and Information and transferring even before we realized they were going to pay them. That time, we had done for three weeks so later on, when the money came I decided that those who started should continue doing it so the RODs will continue to stay at the centers because they had other duties to perform. So later on I have to give part of the money to those who started and those RODs who didn’t go to any place were also given some. We divided it. Not that we have chopped their money.” The Municipal Electoral Officer said.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Obed Ansah
