National Organiser of the National Democratic Congress Joshua Hamidu Akamba has recounted a "regrettable situation" at Banda Constituency  ahead of the December 2020 election, saying the party will fully be prepared for the next election.

The organiser had to storm the Banda constituency in the run up to the election to neutralise the NPP's crude machinations to prevent some people believed to be NDC sympathisers from registering for the New Voter ID card.

He had to faced it off with some heavily built men in Military attair to ensure each and every eligible voter partook in the registration exercise.

Five months after election, Mr Akamba recalls the bratal scene in Banda, saying the NDC will sure the righr thing is done in any electoral exercise.

"It was indeed a barbaric scene and very regrettable situation this country found itself," he told ghanaguardian.com.

"Just when some of us thought our democratic dispensation has improved, the NPP, aided by the electoral Commission did all the can to prevent these people from registering because they are ewes.

"It was between life and death but you know some of us can't stand aside and look so we needed to square it off with these NPP Delta Force guys in military uniforms to ensure the right thing was done."

Mr Akamba, backed by the Chief of Banda, had to vehemently rise to the occasion to ensure the smooth running the registeration process.

A Facebook post by the Youth Organiser Mr George Opare Addo described the action of the NPP as one that was gradually eroding the sense of unity in the country.

He hailed the efforts of Mr Akamba for "resisting the move and and lifting a blockade" to avert what he described as "needless tension created by hoodlums empowered by NPP."

The EC had failed to create a registration center and refused to dispatch mobile registration kits to the communities along the lake in Banda in a move Mr Akamba describes as "criminal collaboration" between the party in Government and the commission.

The Members of those communities who are predominantly Ewes had to travel in buses and tracks to nearby communities to register but were prevented on the way by the armed Military-uniformed men.

"They were not offiiacial military men, just party footsoldiers who were given the military uniform to come and intimidate people, " Mr Akamba said.

"It was a criminal collaboration between the NPP and the EC.

"We were aware of their plans so we had to do all we can to stop them from harming anyone who had come to exercise his or her democratic right."

"We know they will try it again in the next election but we will fully be prepared to match them".

According to Okogyeadie Nana Boankoadi a chief in Banda, the are Ewe fisher folks who settled in the area as far back 1919 even before his great grand parents were born and could not fathom why the EC failed to allocate registration centers in these communities to enable these Ghanaian citizens participate in the registration exercise.