The Progressive Peoples Party has begged the Five-member Committee investigating the corruption allegation against the Electoral Commissioner and her two deputies.
Their demand follows the establishment of a prima facie case against Mrs. Osei, following allegations of corruption and abuse of office leveled against her in two separate petitions.
According to the party, it is ready to provide the committee with evidence against the Electoral Commission of Ghana since the Progressive Peoples Party believes in the need to “cleanse our public institutions of arrogance, abuse of power and complete disregard for public law and order”.
The party, however, expressed its confidence in the Committee to work diligently and with the sense of urgency in investigating all the complaints brought before it in order to put to rest the soiled image of the Electoral Commission.
Meanwhile the hearing has been adjourned to January 2018.
PPP TO PRESENT EVIDENCE AT CHIEF JUSTICE COMMITTEE
The Progressive Peoples Party wishes to congratulate the Chief Justice, Her Ladyship Sophia Abena Boafowaa Akuffo for setting up a five-member committee, to investigate the corruption allegations against the Electoral Commission Chairperson, and her two deputies, in accordance with article 146 (4)(5) of the 1992 Constitution.
We are confident that the committee appointed by the Chief Justice shall work with diligence and a sense of urgency in investigating all the complaints brought before it, to put to rest, the soiled image of the Commission, and the rot in which the EC Commissioners themselves have told us they now wallow in.
We are quite hopeful that the Committee will not ignore the public acknowledgement by Mrs Charlotte Osei, and her complicity in gross violations of our procurement laws and articles of her engagement.
The PPP shall support every effort to cleanse our public institutions of arrogance, abuse of power and complete disregard for public law and order.
We thank the President for acting swiftly on what the Constitution allows in matters relating to such petitions and ensuring that it is applied without fear or favour.
We wish to offer, if given the chance at this Committee, for our party, the Progressive Peoples Party to join this case and present evidence against the Electoral Commission of Ghana.
As a lawful party, our shared responsibility is to educate Ghanaians on why our democracy takes place in a framework of a Presidential representative democratic republic, with the President as both head of state and head of government, and with multi-party democracy as our accepted form of democracy.
We shall continue contributing constructively to the development and improvement of Ghana by defending the existence of legally approved political parties as the most effective way towards progress in our nation.
Signed,
Murtala Mohammed
National Secretary
Source:a1radioonline.com
