The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) party has accused officials of Sierra Leone’s embassies in Guinea and Liberia of ferrying voters from their respective station countries to border towns in Sierra Leone for the purpose of partaking in the ongoing biometric voter registration for the 2012 General Elections in favor of the ruling All People’s Congress (APC) party. This was stated at a press conference held yesterday at the NDA headquarters in Freetown.
Spokesperson for the party, Chernor Alpha Bah accused embassy officials of the Sierra Leone’s embassies in both Guinea and Liberia of “facilitating Sierra Leoneans resident in the two countries to register at the border towns” considering the act as “a violation of the electoral laws.”
Bah argued that the statement of the National Electoral Commissioner, Christiana Thorpe, that Sierra Leoneans can register anywhere irrespective of whether they are ordinarily resident in the constituency “has flagrantly contravened the electoral laws of the country.”
He called on all stakeholders in the electoral process to clarify the issue so as to avoid chaos in the country” and also condemned the government of Sierra Leone for using state resources to ferry voters along the border towns to register and vote for the APC during the pools.
By Saidu Bah
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