Mapping out strategies to augment the 147, 299 registered voters so far was the major focus of yesterday’s coordination meeting.

The Director General of Elections, Mohaman Sani Tanimou has expressed satisfaction with the progress made so far in the voter revision exercise that began on January 1, 2015. He said as at June 22, 2015, ELECAM had registered some 147,299 new voters on the electoral roll barely two months to the end of the revision exercise on August 31, 2015. The Director General who was speaking yesterday June 25, 2015, in Yaounde during the quarterly coordination meeting grouping senior officials of the Directorate General and the ten Regional Delegates, said, there has been a remarkable progress as compared to last year where about 132,000 new voters were registered by the end of the exercise in August 2014.  Mohaman Sani Tanimou decried the lacklustre attitude of women in the revision exercise with only 57,303 women so far registered against 89,996. He nonetheless acknowledged the interest youth have placed on the exercise with 108,061 registered so far giving 73.4 per cent of the total newly registered voters. Elections Cameroon Director General said more efforts are needed by all electoral stakeholders to get more women particularly registered on the electoral role before the end of the operation.

The coordination meeting also provided the opportunity for difficulties faced by ELECAM personnel in the field to be discussed and strategies put in place to augment registration figures before August 31, 2015. Some of the problems, the Regional Delegate for the South West, Oka Bau told Cameroon Tribune stems from lack of collaboration by some stakeholders in the mixed commissions for registration at the level of the council branches and inaccessibility of some areas of the region due to bad roads especially during the rainy season. The Director General also visited the construction site of the Head office of the structure where work is in steady progress.