President Nana Akufo-Addo has forwarded the latest petition for the impeachment of the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Charlotte Osei, to the Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo.
The Director of Communications at the Presidency, Eugene Arhin, revealed the petitioner to be one Douglas Seidu.
Mr. Seidu delivered his petition “around August 18, 2017,†and President Akufo-Addo referred it to the Chief Justice on August 29.
“Once a petition has been brought to the Presidency trying to invoke the relevant portions of the Constitution with regards to the removal of the Chairperson of a body like the Electoral Commission, the President has no choice but to forward the petition to the CJ,†Mr. Arhin explained.Â
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The Director of Communications outlined some of the grounds of the petition as being “financial misconduct, incompetence, conflict of interest and breaches of the public procurement processes. It is an eight-page petition.â€
“He [President Akufo-Addo] has done his part so we will just leave the rest to the Chief Justice to handle. For the Chief Justice, I am sure she has instituted her own processes to handle this,†he added.
There is already a petition from some EC staff, represented by Lawyer Maxwell Opoku-Agyemang, against Mrs. Osei, pending before the Chief Justice.
In the initial petition, a litany of allegations were levelled against her, including spending GH¢3.9 million to partition an office, receipt of a Toyota Land Cruiser from the erstwhile John Mahama-led NDC government, spending about $14 million when the Public Procurement Authority had authorized her to use only $7.5 million, as well as attending Cabinet meetings during the tenure of the President John Mahama.
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