Ghana Election 2024: Party Agents For Alan Kyerematen Cry Out Over Hunger, Vows To Leave Their Posts

Ghana Election 2024: Party Agents For Alan Kyerematen Cry Out Over Hunger, Vows To Leave Their Posts

  • A video of a party agent for Movement for Change sharing his frustration has gone viral
  • This comes after he alleged that the leadership of the party had reneged on its promise to provide them with meals
  • He opened up on plans made by he and other party agents to leave their posts in protests of the neglect from the party leadership

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Agents for Movement for Change, a group led by Alan Kyeremanten, have threatened to boycott their duties.

In a video, the Constituency Chairman for Gomoa East, Eric Arthur, and a party agent lamented that the party leadership have reneged on its promise to provide them with meals.

Alan Kyeremanten, Ghana Election 2024, NPP, NDC
Party agents for Alan Kyeremanten cry out over hunger. Photo credit: @tv3_ghana/X
Source: Twitter

Looking displeased, he said the agents had given the party's leadership a one-hour ultimatum to provide them with food; otherwise, they would leave the various polling stations.

Watch the video:

At the time of writing the report, the video had raked in over 12,000 likes and five comments.

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Ghanaians react to concern by party agents

Social media users who took to the comment section of the video shared varying opinions on the actions of the party agents.

@ebk233 reacted:

Sacrifice small ahh

@GhanaBoylive replied:

"Small party agents live matter."

@enokay69 added:

"Please help them with momo for food."

@maxdofinley added:

"You people err, there are gunshots reported at UDS with one death confirmed and you’re here reporting sorry to say “unnecessary things."

Police arrest EC officer

In related news, YEN.com.gh reported that the Ghana Police Service confirmed a district electoral officer for Afadjato South in the Volta Region on December 5 had been arrested.

This comes after he was found culpable for transporting election materials in a private vehicle.

Reacting to this, the Electoral Commission (EC) confirmed the incident in a statement.

It explained that the police had taken custody of the materials adding that its policy mandates the transportation of all election materials in official vehicles, be accompanied by police when necessary.

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The commission reassured the public that, despite the officer’s breach of protocol, the integrity of the elections in the Afadjato South Constituency remains uncompromised.

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Source: YEN.com.gh

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Philip Boateng Kessie (Human-Interest editor) Philip Boateng Kessie started writing for YEN.com.gh in 2022 and is the Head of the Human Interest desk. He has over six years of experience in journalism and graduated from the University of Cape Coast in 2018 with a bachelor's degree in Communication Studies. Philip previously served as a reporter for Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL) and as a content writer for Scooper News. He has a certificate in Google News Initiative News Lab courses in Advanced Digital Reporting and Fighting Misinformation. Email: philip.kessie@yen.com.gh.