Arua wants more EC officials

THE chairman Electoral Commission (EC), Alhaji Aziz Kasujja, has been asked to increase the number of photographic voter registration officials in Arua Municipality in order to cater for the big turn up at registration centres. The Returning Officer, Mike Remmy wafula, on Thursday told the New Vision at his office that they had been overwhelmed by the daily long queues at the various registration centres in the Municipality. “We have reported to the chairman Electoral Commission the situation on ground. The queues are very long and that there is need to increase the manpower to cope with the situation. “People are rushing to the registration centres following the resumption of the exercise in the municipality,” he said. The photographic voter registration exercise in the municipality resumed on August 29 after it had been suspended by the EC for a week following reports of violence between residents of Ayivu and Aringa at the registration centres.