#FixTheCountry campaigners have reportedly filed a petition for the removal of the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC) and other officers of the Commission.
The reason for the petition, according to them was as a result of none representative of the people of Santrokofi, Akpafu, Likpe, and Lolobi (SALL) in Parliament.
A convener of the group, Oliver Barker-Vormawor explained that the petition is in accordance with Article 146 of the 1992 constitution and is signed by 46 members of the #FixTheCountry movement.
“Our decision to seek the removal of the EC is based on our belief that the fact of the disenfranchisement as well as the indolence of the Electoral Commission (EC) in taking steps to remedy this constitutional breach in itself rises to the threshold of stated misbehaviour and incompetent that Article 146 requires for the removal of officers of the Electoral Commission”
“It’s our hope that if the President receives this that they treat this with dispatch as it has done previously and that he submits this to the Chief Justice who must then go on and perform the constitutional duty of determining whether or not the fact as we would lay them out amounts to a prima facie case for the impeachment of the officers so named in the petition,” he said when addressing media practitioners on the matter.
He was optimistic that there is sufficient grounds to push for a prima facie case against the EC to be removed.
Voters within Santrokofi, Akpafu, Likpe, and Lolobi, were only allowed to exercise their franchise in the presidential election but could not vote in the parliamentary election.
This however led to an ex parte motion filed by residents of the Guan District who were not given the opportunity to vote in the parliamentary elections on December 7, 2020.
A Ho High Court presided over by Justice George Boadi on December 23, 2020, granted an injunction after SALL residents argued that their inability to vote in the 2020 parliamentary election amounted to a breach of their rights.
However, the State through tje Attorney General, Godfred Dame, filed a motion at the Supreme Court to overturn the injunction placed on John Peter Amewu the eventual winner of Hohoe seat by the Ho High Court.
The Supreme Court in a unanimous decision quashed the orders made by the Ho High Court placing an interim injunction on the gazetting and swearing-in of Member of Parliament for the Hohoe constituency, John Peter Amewu.
Source: Daily Guide
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This hog is not getting free money again so he's doing his paymaster's task, shame!
During Mahama's administration you were a presidential staffer getting money on the silver platter. Now the money is not coming so you have devised all means to get your corrupt NDC into power so that you get appointment. Daawa konko come and take the position.
Nkwaseafoo agyimifoo fixed the country Motherfuckers morons
By the same constituion Ghanaians in diaspora should be provided the opportunity to vote. The challange had existed since the time of the previous commissioners. Nobody was ever removed because of the unresolved problems. There are people in parliament today who have violated the electoral rules to get to the parliament and yet they are wrongfully present in the parliament. Should we remove the Speaker because of the invalid MPs?
This NDC boy is not serious.... This b0g0s petition is going nowhere. It is a waste of precious time.
Look at his face like that of chimpanzee. Go and remove your f.....cking mother. 11111ddiiot
you guys are not serious kraaaaaaaaaa you people behave like school boys mamamia
NDC #fixwhat?
Now that the rigging and stealing hole at the EC has be fixed, the NDC is finding it difficult to breathe so they want to remove the current Chairperson in order to destroy the system again.
Attention-seeking child. $hame on you and your faceless sponsors of this d-£ad on arrival 1ll-thought petition. It is only people with nation-wreck1ng thoughts who will see nothing positive in the work of the current EC and the work it has done. Give up this no hope petition and tell your paymasters to sponsor you to desilt the Odaw river, Accra's own river Thames ok.