Asiedu Nketia clashes with soldiers at Banda over voters registration [VIDEO]

The General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia has clashed with military personnel deployed to Banda in the Bono Region over their seeming refusal to allow some residents partake in the ongoing registration exercise.

A video that has made its way to social media captures the military blocking a road with a pickup truck.

According to reports we have gathered, the road leads to a registration centre in the constituency.

Johnson Asiedu Nketia was captured in the video telling the military that they have no role in the ongoing registration exercise.

“Soldiers are not part of our registration and so they have business blocking legitimate people who want to register.”

“No one can take your Ghanaian citizenship from you, some vigilantes have been given military uniforms to misbehave so take pictures of them and we will check where they were recruited.”

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The NDC has had cause to complain over what they say is the use of military personnel to intimidate some legitimate Ghanaians from registering on the basis that they’re foreigners being bused from border towns into Ghana.

Former President John Dramani Mahama in a Facebook post on Saturday berated President Akufo-Addo for using Executive Power to foment ethnic discrimination and abuse.

“The road President Akufo-Addo is taking our beautiful country through, using the military and party thugs to stop people from exercising their right to register and vote in the upcoming December elections, is dangerous and unacceptable,” the NDC Flagbearer said.