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EC, Chairperson, Jean Mensah
I have already indicated in my article of 10th July 2024 which I circulated through social media that, this Electoral Commission (EC) has no business conducting the 2024 general elections.
Its incompetence is almost tangible and no serious democracy will allow any current member of the EC to even occupy a public office let alone conduct an election or hold press conference and make such unreasonable statements. It is incompetent even by the most basic stadards of evalution.
This is an EC which failed to announce accurate final results of presidential elections in 2020, and till date no one knows the exact total number of votes cast in the 2020 presidential elections. No one knows the exact margin by which the alleged winner of the Presidential election won that election.
On top of this, the EC Chair in gross disrespect of our laws and to the people of Ghana, and with the assistance of incompetent decisions of the Highest Court of our land refused to enter the box in court to clarify the discrepancies in the multiple declarations of the same presidential election result.
The same EC, in an unprecedented manifestation of incompetence issued a directive on the eve of the 2020 general election preventing a whole community of voters (SALL) from participating in the 2020 general Parliamentary elections. This left the whole of that community unrepresented in our Parliament for a whole four year-term of Parliament. An event that is unprecedented in the history of our democracy if not that of the world. This was done without any authority under our laws.
What is more worrying is that, the EC issued that directive in flagrant violation of the Supreme Court directive to retain the Hohoe constituency to which SALL belonged, until after 6th January, 2021. That directive meant that, SALL could still vote for and be represented by a member of Parliament in the Hohoe constituency till 2024, or any earlier rearrangement under law.
In addition, the EC issued a Constitutional Instrument (CI 119) in which a whole district call Tain and its electoral areas have been omited from the CI. Till date, we do not know why Tain and all its electoral areas were omitted from CI 119, and remains omitted even now.
As if that is not enough, the same EC also refused to amend CI 95 against the Orders of the Supreme Court, and proceeded to lay a completely new CI 128 which also violated the directive and reviewed electoral areas in violation of the constitution.
The violations of the supreme court directives are criminal. They amount to high crime under our constitution for which the EC officials should have been removed from office with dispatch and made to face trial for high crime in a competent court of Law.
The same EC is transferring voters across constituencies and polling stations without voters’ knowledge and consent, and have their officials openly declaring their affiliations to the ruling political party and some of us still believe it is compentent enough to conduct a free and fair general election in 2024.
On the contrary, we have allowed such EC officials in office, and rather worried, and keep lamenting about citizens loss of confidence in the EC. Surprisingly, these lamentatitions are being expressed by Chiefs and elites on very vialbe public platforms.
With all the incompetence demonstrated by this EC, we are still surprised that it is un able to comprehend the difference between rectifying deliberate illegal transfer of voters already committed by its unscrupulous officials, and auditing the electoral system to eliminate the potential for recurrence of such and other offences.
In such a situation, the Peace Council is not calling the EC to Order, or calling on the Presiden to dissolve such an EC for a more credible EC to be reconstituted. It is rather busy soliciting signatures on an assemblage of English words on a piece of paper it calls peace pack, and actually believing that such a paper if contains such signatures will bring peace after the impending general election.
What at all is wrong with us??? What’s wrong with the blackman’s mind?
Is it not obvious that very seriuos weaknesses of the electoral sysytem would be revealed by a forensic audit? Is it not obvious that, the curren EC is only willing to rectify errors that are exposed, but will proceed with those they know are unexposed. Is it not obvious that the EC is willing to conduct the elections with whatever weaknesses that are allowing its unscrupulous officials to commit electoral fraud? Why are we allowing that?
I dare say that, our country stands the risk of unprecedented elections related turmoil if the current EC is allowed to conduct the 2024 general elections. The current EC should not be allowed to conduct the 2024 general election. Period. A word to the wise is enough.
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