Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Charlotte Osei, has been shortlisted for the prestigious 2017 Chatham House Prize, to be awarded by the Royal Institute of International Affairs of the U.K.
According to the Director of Chatham House, Dr. Robin Niblett CMG, the EC boss was nominated by the award committee for her role in “ensuring a peaceful and transparent electoral process in Ghana in December 2016, further consolidating Ghana’s 24-year long democratic journey”.
“The recent election consolidated Ghana’s 24-year long democratic trajectory and was norm setting for Africa, the Commonwealth and beyond; your tireless efforts throughout 2016 were central to this success,” Chatham House said.
Other dignitaries in contention for the award are Juan Manuel Santos, President of Colombia and Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary-General of NATO.
The Chatham House Prize is awarded to the person, persons or organization deemed to have made the most significant contribution to the improvement of international relations in the previous year.
Mrs. Osei is the first female to serve as head of Ghana’s Electoral Commission since independence. She successfully supervised the 2016 elections which saw the smooth transfer of power from one party to another in the country.
Past recipients of the Chatham House Prize includes former President of Ghana, John Agyekum Kufuor and former President of Mozambique, Joaquim Chissano.
Also, the former President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese Democracy Campaigner and Leader of the National League for Democracy have also been honoured with an award from Chatham.
Other recipients are former US Secretary of State and Democratic Presidential candidate in last November’s US elections, Mrs. Hillary Clinton; and former US Secretary of State Mr. John Kerry.
The final winner of the award will be announced at the end of April, 2017.
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THEN THE AWARD IS OF NO VALUE.THIS EVIL WOMAN WHO WANTED TO CHEAT AT ALL COST COST FOR THE NDC MERITS AN AWARD? MAYBE UTS AN NDC PRO ORGANISATION GIVING THE AWARD. SHE IS SOOO BIASED
Oh,no.If organizing one single election successfully is enough to warrant an award from chatham house, then DR. Afari Djan deserves dozens of such awards,this lady is just a novice in the game of elections,if i may ask,why did she come out to declear the results barely ten minutes after Mahama had conceded defeat?.She had something under her sleeves,but the margin of victory was to wide for her to massage the figures.May be chatham house wanted to mention Afari Djan instead,am waiting for the error to be corrected.
This EC boss is not fit for the award. She was not able to declare a single presidential constituency results. She kept the results to herself and only organising press conferences until Mahama conceded to Nana Addo then she came out to declare final result... I cannot trust her. She had a hidden agenda....
Nominated for a prize Osonoba Kufuor won? The nominator musy have been dozing during the elections> She could not announce a single presidential constituency election results. Is this how people must be rewarded as an example?
Kwasiagyimmi go to uk and stop them. Madam gogo high
No oooo, for Christ sake. She wanted to swerve us and give it to JDM. Thanks to the vigilance of Anokye of NASA fame and the NPP. We may have been laughing at the wrong side of our mouths. My candid opinion is that she doesn't deserve it.