When my editor served notice for our first training for the 2024 general elections, I was immediately thrown into a state of dilemma as to whether I could also be able to cover the electoral process like my colleagues as the Upper West Regional correspondent for the highly reputable online portal -GhanaWeb, having been poised not to be left out.
This was due to my peculiar situation as a physically challenged person who was likely to be faced with the difficulty of accessing public buildings and places to enable me to manoeuvre my way through to discharge my duties successfully, knowing the lack of enforcement of the Persons with Disability ACT 2006 (ACT 715) in the country 18 years after its enactment.
Aided in my mobility with crutches due to my temporal disability since 2016 resulting from multiple spinal disc protrusions, I was nonetheless, determined to go through the pains to cover the elections driven by my passion for the noble profession and the love for mother Ghana.
Despite the vagaries of the harsh harmattan weather conditions noted for this area at this time of the year, I was able to shake it off arriving at my first station at the Huriya JHS polling centre at around 5:30 am with 10 voters already in attendance waiting for the arrival of the EC officials.