The National Democratic Party (NDP) has welcomed the decision by President Nana Akufo-Addo to remove the Chair of the Electoral Commission as well as two of her deputies from office.
According to the NDP, the decision to remove the three Commissioners -Mrs Charlotte Osei, Mrs. Georgina Opoku Amankwaah and Mr. Amadu Sulley- is a proof of the President’s commitment to save the public purse.
The removal is on the recommendation of a committee set up by the Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo, to investigate alleged acts of corruption, misconduct and misbehaviour by the three commissioners.
Information Minister, Dr. Mustapha Hamid, in a statement issued Thursday, June 28, 2018, announced the dismissal of Charlotte Osei, Georgina Opoku Amankwaah and Sulley Amadu for misbehaviour and incompetence.
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has kicked against the decision describing it as politically motivated and has demanded a reversal of the President’s action.
National Organiser, Kofi Adams claims the accusations against Charlotte Osei are trumped up claiming that the decision remove her as well as her two deputies, is part of a well thought out plan by the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) to rig the 2020 elections.
But the NDP which is an offshoot of the NDC, whose candidate, Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings was disqualified by the EC from contesting the Presidential Election in 2016, has hailed the President’s move as a “great relief”.
“The National Democratic Party, NDP, has learnt with great relief the dismissal of Mrs. Charlotte Osei, the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), from office by a due process of the constitution and rule of law” the party said in a statement issued Tuesday, July 3 and signed by Secretary General, Alhaji Mohammed Frimpong.
The decision underscores the President’s commitment to safeguard the national purse from reckless scramble for wanton dissipation of public funds, it noted.
It noted also: “By the NDP’s encounter with the dismissed EC Chair in the run-up to the 2016 elections, it was clear that in just a matter of time the Commission was going to crash in obvious managerial incompetence and stalled democracy.”
Source: adomonline.com
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Ride on Nana Konadu, we are on your side. Absolute relief indeed! NPP should drain the swamp quickly.
Look at the old witch of a woman. Why wont you be relief? Do you think you are still relevant in Ghana politics? Look at the face of an arm robber!!! Grandmother ***barred word***. You can never incorporate good moral values into your children. Always busy pulling other people down. Shame on you. You are a disgrace to womanhood.
this woman is very funny, i pity you and your husband i dont know if its menopause or mere hatred for your own husbans party because they refused to bad acts. God have mercy on you
why will it not be "Great Relief" but one thing is for sure there is no way absolutely no way anything Rawlings will ever win any "competition" again. As for Owusu B. " we have eaten the deroo itself and what is the stick talking about"
why not a great relief the most corrupt ex first lady. to begin with the same nana konadu protested that charlot is a nigerian. politicts be sweet because we can always get lawyers to defend us when we are part of a consipiracy to kidnap innocent feeding mother with better education than us. and get our children educated overseas. hope ghanaians will revisit the murder of high court judges and major acquah.