A member of the National Democratic Congress [NDC] communication team, Alhaji Haruna Halidu believes the removal of the Electoral Commission [EC] boss, Madam Charlotte Osei and her two deputies was premeditated by the New Patriotic Party [NPP] and not by any Procurement Act flaws as claimed.
According to him, it will be dangerous on the side of the President to say that the EC Chairperson was removed from her post per Procurement Laws, when those types of breaches have their allocated punishment.
He said President Akufo-Addo’s own actions are vindicating him every day as his behavior and actions clearly shows the caliber of person he is.
“It is a dangerous phenomenon to use the breaches of an act to cause the removal of the EC boss when the act has its own form of punishment . . . For the proceeds of Procurement Law, not even the President can escape it,” he stated.
He said Ghanaians are all witnesses to the fact that the NPP made lots of agitations and protests while in opposition concerning her appointment and that is exactly what they have just done.
However, Alhaji Halidu explained that following the bits and pieces of the cross examination of the EC boss and the final submission of the five-member committee, there is evidence of a serious conspiracy and traverse of justice.
“If NPP care to know, the law on Procurement states that the head of an entity has the mandate to sign contracts, so in this sense where did the EC boss go wrong with the Public Procurement Act, which caused her removal?” Alhaji Halidu questioned.
Mrs Charlotte Osei and her two deputies, Amadu Sulley and Georgina Opoku Amankwaa, were removed from office in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief Justice's committee which probed numerous allegations levelled against them.
Source: Elizabeth Semiheva Bedi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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i have always said ndc has never had a good and well meaning supporters from the top down, so you expect Akuffo Addo to disregard the dictate of the constitution why is ndc so lawless and senseleessss, is it because the woman was there to do your bidding? Charlote Osei and the two other commissioners shot themselves in the foot so it serves them right. ooooo no ndc this party would never inspire me to vote for them, because they are so dumb and senseleesss
The removal of the EC boss will rather let NPP lost the 2020 elections. It is a mistake and bad decisions NPP make. People are fed up of this bad rule on Nana Addo. Everybody is crying so the president must to tackle how to solve other problems that this act. NPP will be voted out come 2020
Even if she is misbehaving we should keep her?
LOOK AT YOURSELF!!!!! WHERE WERE U WHEN JOHN DRAMANI MAHAM REMOVED LORETA LAMPTEY ( FORMER CHRAGJ BOSS)????? HIPOCRACY OF THE HIGHEST ORDER!!!!
When mahama sacked the ncce boss that wasn't a dangerous precedent....kwassiaaaa man
Some Alhaji without brains indeed. What is it that the President has done which is a bad precedent? Have you read the Constitution as an Alhaji and a Semi Educated person? No doubt Dr Bawumia then in Opposition said THE NDC PEOPLE DON'T READ. It is always good to seek knowledge and advice when you don't have one yourself. It is people like you who have made Ghana to become poverty stricken and corruption prone. Have you heard the likes of Hon. Fuseini spewing gaarbage like you're doing? Have you heard wise, sensible, mature, and well educated members of your own NDC party coming out to say anything or incite the citizens to rise up in arms against the removal of the ex girlfriend and Chairperson of the EC? Why are you not asking stuup1d questions about Amadu Sulley's dismissal daneama shiegu. Leave the law to work. If you and your ***barred word*** Brigade NDC have any problems with the decision of the committee, GO TO COURT AND SHUT F##U**C*K UP.
Mr. NDC, go and read the Procurement Act carefully, understand it very well, seek clarification from intelligent people and come back again.
All that you know are insults. When serious minded people are expressing their views, you insult them. So we have come to stage where NDC cannot express their opinion on anything. There is a problem with your brains
Ooooooooh, did the NDC set a BAD precedent with the removal of the former CHRAG boss Mrs. Lamptey? NDC, I can't think far!
WHEN MAHAMA REMOVED LORETTA LAMPTEY,IT WAS A BAD PRECEDENT THEN.WHY ARE YOU FIGHTING FOR CHARLOTTE OSEI ALONE?ALIDU REASON OUT