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The Ghana Election Commission, in collaboration with the National Council of Persons with Disabilities, has organized a one-day training workshop on election observation for the disability community.
As part of its mandate to ensure that people with disabilities participate actively in the main national activities, the National Council of People with Disabilities requested accreditation status so that people with disabilities can be observers in the different polling stations in the next elections. .
As a requirement for accreditation, the Electoral Commission organized the training for the participants, more than 100 from all over the country.
The students were made up of blind, deaf, autistic, burn survivors, and people with physical disabilities; the Governing Board of the National Council of Persons with Disabilities, some staff members of the National Council of Persons with Disabilities and members of the Federation of Disability Organizations of Ghana.
Elections Commission official, Fred Tetteh led participants through the various electoral laws and processes, as well as their responsibilities as election observers.
He assured them that the Electoral Commission has made special arrangements for Persons with Disabilities to ensure that they cast their vote without any impediment. One such arrangement is the provision of a ballot template (BPT) to assist the blind.
The Executive Secretary of the National Council for People with Disabilities, Esther Akua Gyamfi, advised the participants to respect their status as electoral observers, exercising their civic rights.
The National Council of Persons with Disabilities is the state agency in charge of coordinating disability-related matters in the country.
