About 1,000 people are expected to register at Elections Cameroon’s Regional Office in Douala on Wednesday.

Less than 12 hours to the effective registration of voters using the biometric system, materials for the exercise are said to be available and in adequate amounts at the Littoral Regional Office of the national elections management body, Elections Cameroon (ELECAM). By midday yesterday, officials of ELECAM in Douala where busy putting things together for the biometric registration which started today October 3 at 8 a.m.

Each of the six council areas has been apportioned five biometric registration kits. Tete Ildevert Claude Emmanuel, ELECAM Delegate for the Littoral Region, said there are additional kits to meet any eventual need. He expressed satisfaction with the reform which necessitated good preparation and communication.

By press time yesterday, the Regional Office was consumed in fine-tuning communication strategies, to sensitise, inform and educate the population of the new electoral process while mobilising them to register. The public is encouraged to partake massively in the new registration system which calls for just the presentation of a National Identity Card or a valid receipt of the Identity Card. By the biometric registration, it was explained, everybody is called upon to register, whether one has ever done before or not. A new voter’s list will be constituted for further elections in the country.

“Registration of voters will last five months. If we can, and it is not impossible that we should do it in less than five months, but we can’t exceed six months,” Tete Ildevert Claude Emmanuel revealed.

Governor Joseph Beti Assomo of the Littoral Region opens the new registration process this morning.