The current Chair of the Electoral Commission, Jean Mensa may be subjected to the same treatment meted out to her predecessor Charlotte Osei if there is a change of government, private legal practitioner Martin Kpebu has said.
Commenting on the challenges that characterised the ongoing Limited Voter registration exercise while speaking on the Key Points on TV3 Saturday, May 11, Kpebu said that “Madam Jean Mensa is politically tainted, she is likely to suffer the same fate as Charlotte Osei if another government comes.”
Mrs Charlotte Osei and her two deputies, Amadu Sulley and Georgina Opoku Amankwaa were removed from office with immediate effect.
Their removal was based on recommendations from the committee that investigated corruption and misconduct allegations against them.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo had met Mrs Charlotte Osei, Amadu Sulley and Georgina Opoku Amankwaa earlier and handed over the dismissal letter to them.
Some concerned workers of the Electoral Commission in July 2017 petitioned the President and the Chief Justice to begin impeachment processes against the Chairperson of the Commission, Mrs Charlotte Osei.
They accused Mrs Osei of taking unilateral decisions without recourse to the appropriate departments of the EC, even her deputies.
The group also accused the EC Chair of engaging in fraudulent activities, citing her decision to cancel a contract awarded to Superlock Technologies Limited (STL) to supply and manage Biometric Voter Registration machines (BVRs) and the Biometric Voter Devices (BVDs), as well as her directive for the payment of $76,000 to IT firm, Dream Oval.
Following that, a counter-argument ensued between Mrs Osei and her two deputies that portrayed that all was not well between the three topmost commissioners at the EC.
A counter petition was also filed for the removal of the two other commissioners, Amadu Sulley and Georgina Opoku Amankwaa.