Applying the Voter Registration Quality Index (VRQI) to scrutinize the recent voter registration and exhibition exercises reveals a shocking truth. The Jean-Bossman’s Voter Register has achieved a dismal 46% score, exposing the Electoral Commission’s glaring inefficiencies and highlighting critical shortcomings in key performance indicators( KPIs)as. Accessibility, a crucial pillar of …
Read More »Jean Mensa Needs To Mount The Witness Box
When an expert or a person is vested with the constitutional responsibility to perform certain statutory duties, and the expert hires a lawyer about his/her official and statutory duties, the expert ought to be giving instructions to the lawyer and not the other way around. Madam Jean Mensa is …
Read More »Election Petition: Mahama presses EC to admit to errors made in the declaration
John Dramani Mahama, the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress has amended his petition before the Supreme Court by further coaxing the Electoral Commission to admit to the errors its Chairperson made during her 9 December 2020 declaration of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as President-elect. On Thursday, January 14, 2021, when the …
Read More »Filing of Nomination for 2020 polls: Beware of of dual citizens, fake documents – NPP& NDC told
As the Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana sets to open nomination for presidential and Parliamentary candidates for 2020 general election, this paper wishes to caution all stakeholders especially the two leading Political parties in Ghana to further scrutinize their candidates before filing their documents. Information available to your authoritative, …
Read More »ASEPA to challenge dismissal of Jean Mensa petition in court
The Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA) has said it disagrees with the decision by the president to dismiss its petition for the removal of the chairperson of the electoral commission, Jean Mensa. In June, ASEPA secured a declaration from CHRAJ that madam Mensa failed to declare her assets …
Read More »Asiedu Nketia Calls For The Arrest Of Jean Mensa’s, EC Executives
The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Mrs Jean Mensa and her deputies must be arrested for causing financial loss to the state after admitting to capturing minors and foreigners onto the new electoral roll through the recently-ended registration exercise, General Secretary of the biggest opposition party, Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has said. The influx …
Read More »Anonymous Ghanaian citizens start processes to remove Jean Mensa from office
Some anonymous aggrieved Ghanaian citizens have, through their lawyer Chris Arcmann-Ackummey, started processes for the removal of Electoral Commission Chair Jean Mensa just as her predecessor Charlotte Osei, was. In a letter to Mrs Mensa to demand her response to some eleven allegations made against her by the aggrieved citizens, their lawyer …
Read More »EC refusing to file defense lawsuit against new voters’ register
Osei Kwame Griffiths, former boss of the National Identification Authority (NIA) under the John Mahama administration, has hauled the Electoral Commission (EC) before an Accra High Court, over its decision to procure items for the compilation of a new voters’ register for the December 2020 presidential and parliamentary polls. The …
Read More »I’ve never seen an incompetent EC Chair like Jean Mensa – UCC lecturer
Political Science lecturer at the University of Cape Coast (UCC) Jonathan Asante Okyere has questioned the resolutions taken by the Electoral Commission (EC) to compile a new voter registration in late June regardless of opposition from some political parties and in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. Speaking to Nana …
Read More »Ghana’s Death Toll Figure Older Than Than You, Think about Ghanaians – Bawumia, Jean Mensah and Akuffo Addo Told
The communications Director of NDC’s Young Democrats Mr. Japhet Festus Gbede has warned that Ghana is heading of cataclysm if President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo does not stop Electoral Commission from throwing away a register that brought him to power. Mr. Japhet Festus Gbede, who is the NDC Ward Coordinator …
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