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Pages In Petition to Remove Jean Mensah Go Missing After Being Forwarded from Presidency to CJ
It has emerged that some pages contained in the petition seeking the removal of the Electoral Commission chairperson and her deputies have gone missing after the petition was forwarded from the Office of the President to the Chief Justice.
In a Facebook post one of the petitioners, Oliver Barker-Vormawor, disclosed that the said pages, which are four in number, have the most critical arguments in their petition asking for the removal of the EC chairperson and her deputies.
However, he confirmed that the Chief Justice had granted them (petitioners) the opportunity to submit the missing pages in the document.
“We have just been informed by the Office of the Chief Justice that the pages 9, 10, 11 and 12, which contain our most critical arguments, were missing from the petition that was received from the Presidency.
“We acknowledge the notice from the Office of the Chief Justice and are grateful for the opportunity to supply the missing pages,” he wrote.
In a subsequent post, Barker-Vormawor, one of the lead conveners of #FixTheCountry – a pressure group, affirmed that their petition filed at the office of the president on Monday, January 10, 2022, did contain the missing pages.
According to him, their evidence is a duplicate copy of the petition that has a stamp of the Presidency on it.
“We printed a duplicate copy of the petition, which was stamped at the Presidency. We just checked. The copy we have contains the missing pages. We have no idea what went wrong with the master copy. Anyway, we will be sending a new copy to the Chief Justice tomorrow,” he added.
Earlier, Oliver Barker-Vormawor, in a Facebook update, indicated that the office of the president had written to the petitioners informing them that their petition had been forwarded to the Chief Justice for consideration.
In accordance with the 1992 Constitution of Ghana, the Chief Justice is to set up a committee to commence impeachment processes against the EC commissioner to see whether a prima facie case can be established based on the arguments and evidence of the petitioners.
