The presidency has received the petition filed by some staff of the Electoral Commission asking for a full-scale investigations into an alleged misconduct and abuse of office by Chairperson of the commission Charlotte Osei.
Director of Communications at the presidency, Eugene Arhin, has confirmed receipt of the petition.
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The concerned staff in a petition on Wednesday June 19Â claim the decision of the EC chair to cancel a contract awarded to Superlock Technologies Limited (STL) -- a company contracted to supply and manage Biometric Voter Registration machines (BVRs) and the Biometric Voter Devices (BVDs), as well as her directive for the payment of $76,000 to IT firm, Dream Oval, were fraudulent.
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"The Commission signed a contract with Super Tech (STL) Limited on the premise of that Voter Registration Exercise was going to be electoral area based. Upon assumption of office as Chairperson of the Commission, Mrs. Charlotte Osei unilaterally abrogated the said contract without recourse to the same Commission that approved the earlier version.
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"She single-handedly renegotiated the contract with the vendor without the involvement of the members of the Commission, not even the deputies. She then awarded the contract to the tune of $21,999,592 without going through tender contrary to the Public Procurement Act. The Chairperson then re-awarded these contracts without approval from the Commission," stated a paragraph in the petition signed by Counsel for the staff, Maxwell Opoku-Agyemang, and addressed to President Nana Akufo-Addo.
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The staff also claim that the political posture of Mrs. Osei prior the conduct of the 2016 general election nearly caused instability.
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They alleged had it not been the competence of the Commission, Ms. Osei would have plunged this country into civil war.
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