A private legal practitioner, Chris Ackummey has written to the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission of Ghana requesting for some information whiles notifying her of an intended petition for her removal from office.
In a five pages letter sighted by Awake News, Chris Ackummey said he is writing on behalf of some aggrieved Ghanaians whose identity said he is cannot be disclosed for now for security reasons.
“I have their instruction to request for official responses to some allegations publicly made against you as Chairperson of the Electoral Commission. This request is in accordance with the “Audi Alteram Partem” rule and most especially in consonance with the passage of the Right to Information Bill, failing which I will give effect to their instructions to proceed with a petition for your removal from office as the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, which the petition shall be submitted without delay through the constitutionally established procedure to the President of the Republic of Ghana His Excellency Nana Addo Danquah Akufo Addo” – the letter said
According to Chris Ackummey in the letter copied the Speaker of Parliament, The Chief Justice, Chairman of the Council of States, the President of the National House of Chiefs, Secretary to the President of Ghana and Chairman of the Eminent Advisory Committee of the EC, his clients said, they “voted in the previous elections conducted by the Electoral Commission and now fear being disenfranchised if you are allowed to continue on with the plan to compile a new voters register. A plan which the National House of Chiefs, Clergy, Clerics, Civil Society Organizations, Federation of Labour, Political Parties and well-meaning Ghanaians cautioned you against”.
Mr. Ackummey in the listed has listed eleven allegations against the Mrs. Jean Mensa for which is being asked to respond noted among these allegations are Gross Incompetence; Procurement Breaches; Conflict of Interest; Collusion; Display of Falsehood and Insecurity; Organizing illegal IPAC Meetings; Disregard for Court Directive on ROPAL.
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By: Efo Korsi Senyo / awakenewsroom.com
