The General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia has stated that the next NDC government if re-elected will scrutinize the Jean Mensa-led electoral commission.
According to him, anyone found culpable of any wrong doing will be well dealt with by the law.
“We will investigate everything that they have done. If there are sufficient reasons for them to be changed, why not? It will be in the service of the nation,” Asiedu Nketia stated.
He added, “Previously, we were of the opinion that procurement breaches can’t be a basis for Electoral Commission members to be changed. Now the court has established that procurement breaches can be used for change of membership. If Procurement breaches are found to have implicated any other persons who had otherwise been protected under the constitution, that person cannot have protection again.”
He warned that his party if given the nod in the December polls will follow the same precedent the NPP used in removing former EC Chair Charlotte Osei.
“The reasons based on which the previous commissioners were changed, we still believe that they are not very good enough reasons for the commissioners to be changed. Now it has been established as a precedent so it will be easier for subsequent government to also begin to change.”
Source: GhanaFeed.Com