IMANI Centre for Policy and Education has petitioned the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) to investigate the Electoral Commission’s (EC) conduct in the retirement and disposal of elections-related equipment.
The petition dated May 4 seeks to “invoke the jurisdictions, powers, mandates, and duties under chapters 18 and 24 of the 1992 Constitution of the Republic of Ghana, which entrust the care of national resources and the charge of ensuring sound conduct among public officers to the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ/” the Commission”).”
The signatories to the petition, including Founding President, Franklin Cudjoe, Honorary Vice President, Bright Simons, Senior Vice President, Kofi Bentil and Vice President Selorm Brantie wrote, “We are gravely concerned by the Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana’s handling of the
nation’s scarce resources in the discharge of its duties, which conduct we believe amounts to “misappropriation”, “wastage”, and “misuse” of said resources.”
They contend that, “The EC’s conduct appears to us as evincing a conflict between its duties under various laws to judiciously apply the resources of this country for the good of the citizenry, on the one hand, and its tendency to take decisions favourable to various commercial vendors and
transactors, on the other hand.”
“Furthermore, we believe that the EC’s most recent conduct has been necessitated by a need to curtail transparency and accountability, and thus was
motivated by a collective conflict of interest,” they added.
