Politics and Elections

Anonymous Ghanaian citizens start processes to remove Jean Mensa from office

Some unknown Ghanaian residents have, through their legal counselor Chris Arcmann-Ackummey, began processes aimed at removing the Electoral Commission Chair Jean Mensa similarly as her forerunner Charlotte Osei, was.

In a letter to Mrs. Mensa to request her reaction to approximately eleven claims made against her by the unhappy residents, their legal counselor said her inability to agree to their solicitation would constrain them to continue with an appeal for her prosecution.

The letter, dated 4 June 2020, was duplicated to the Speaker of Parliament, the Chief Justice, Chairman of the Council of State, President of the National House of Chiefs, Secretary to the President, and the Chairman of the Eminent Advisory Committee of the EC.

The letter added that claims for which reactions are looked for, the entirety of which, whenever demonstrated, will make you unfit to hold the post you at present possess, are thus expressed beneath.

They include “gross incompetence, procurement breaches, conflict of interest, collusion, organizing illegal IPAC meetings, disregarding court directives on ROPAL, refusing to accept birth certificates and voter ID cards for registration, displaying falsehood and insincerity, endangering millions of Ghanaian lives through a registration exercise scheduled to take place at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, committing perjury before the Parliamentary Special Budget Committee and defying COVID-19 restrictions”.

Mr Arcmann-Ackummey added that his clients are Ghanaian residents drawn from a portion of the districts of Ghana whose character, by and by, can’t be uncovered for security reasons”, including the divulgence of their personalities will be made upon the introduction of the request itself if that occurs.

“I have their instructions to request official written responses to some allegations publicly made against you as the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission”.

this solicitation is as per the ‘Audi Alteram Partem’ rule and most particularly, in consonance with the section of the Right to Information Bill, bombing which I will offer impact to their guidelines to continue with an appeal for your expulsion from office as the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, which request will be submitted immediately through the unavoidably settled system to the President of the Republic of Ghana, His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo according to the content of the letter.

He also included that: “My clients intimated that they voted in previous elections conducted by the Electoral Commission and now fear being disenfranchised if you are allowed to continue with the current plan to compile a new voter register – a plan which the National House of Chiefs, clergy, clerics, civil society organizations, Federation of Labour, political parties and well-meaning Ghanaians have cautioned you against”.
Below is the full letter.