The Electoral Commission Director for Cape Coast Metropolis, Mr. Richard Asenso has admonished to politicians across the country to tread cautiously on the issue of minor registration in the ongoing limited voter registration exercise.

He remarked that the act of registering a person below the age of eighteen (18) to own a voter identification card prior to the country's 2024 general election, emerges an abuse to the minor in question and an offence punishable by law, hence entreat members of various political parties to desist from such act.

Mr. Asenso bemoaned the fact that politicians who are hell-bent on registering minors for the nationwide exercise, knowing its future implication on such individuals will never allow their underage wards to indulge in the act but will go every length to risk the future of poor and naive parent's children.

He recounted that should one lead a minor to partake in the registration exercise, such culprit in the first place has taught that teenager how to lie, coupled with the fact that such individual will under all circumstance be likened to an adult in instances like medical treatment and criminal cases.

Barbara Asher Ayisi, the immediate past Member of Parliament for Cape Coast North Constituency who doubles as a former Deputy Minister of Education told Sompa News Eric Annan that the pretence of some minors forcing themselves to partake in voter registration exercise leaves a serious course to worry, as such individuals seize to hamper their future.

According to Hon. Kwamena Minta Nyarku, the Member of Parliament for Cape Coast North Constituency suggested for an extension of time to have more persons register for the exercise which experienced internet hitches in its early stage, as most secondary school pupils are yet to return home for vacation.

Source//Sompaonline.com/Eric Annan