We the members of Concerned Ghanaians Against Electoral Fraud (COGEF) based in the UK have formally petitioned the Chairperson of the EC, exhorting her, and the institution of Electoral Commission over a response COGEF have received from the British Government over the concerns over the Ghanaian Electoral Register for Election 2016.
This petition is appeal to the EC of Ghana to show and exercise more of an aptitude of neutrality, during this period, as the 2016 elections draws closer. Based on a number of admissions by Dr Kwadwo Afari Gyan, the ex - Chairman of the institution on various occasions, coupled with a comparative statistical analysis of Ghana's population percentage on the voters register, we strongly believe that the institution has created a mischief in compiling a voters roll that is factually unconscionable, yet the EC is hell bent on maintaining it.
In this regard, we appealed to the UK government, by way of a petition to the British Prime Minister to intercede for international intervention for the right thing to be done. In a response to our petition, the British government has stated an alethic fact, far from mere conjecture, but with algorithmic population percentage analysis. Attached with the letter to the EC, are copies of letters received from the office of the British Prime Minister, at No 10 Downing Street, and also another from the Ghana desk of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
These two attached letters became the subject matter of heated debates between some of the Ghana Media, and some NDC communicators, who doubted, and continue to be lost in doubt about the authenticity and authority of the letters, but not the facts stated therein.
COGEF UK have not only petitioned the EC of Ghana but also copies of the petition have been submitted to ex-President JJ Rawlings, and ex-President J A Kufuor, in a bid to draw their word into the electoral roll issue, accompanied with copies of the Ghana - made disputed letters. His Excellency the President of Ghana has also been notified accordingly, as the supremo of the Ghana authorities, who have the responsibility to address the issues on the register. The British High Commissioner has also been provided with copies of the letters, formally inviting him to officially ascertain their authenticity. These are official documents from his own country, which he couldn't recognise, but doubted. All these letters were despatched by DHL courier delivery services from here in London, UK.
Two weeks ago, the Daily Guide newspaper brought these exclusive letters into the public domain, when they published what a UK-based Echo newspaper had exposed. Indeed, we were about to copy and forward particularly the Foreign and Commonwealth Office letter to the EC, just at the same time that the Echo and the Daily Guide made their publications of same.
We are also aware of the EC, composing a five - member committee of eminent Ghanaians, headed by Mr Justice VCRAC Crabbe, a former jurist, with much gracious experience of Electoral Commissioner, to look into the debate on the current voters register. However, even before the Committee submitted its report, the Chairperson of the EC had gone to parliament, for approval of her institution's appropriation bill.
When the Committee's report was eventually submitted to her, acting on her commitment to remain recusant to maintaining the embattled register, Ms Charlotte Osei, the Electoral Commissioner, sought an escape by withholding the salient issues addressed in the report, and only highlighted a small fragment of the whole, by misconstruing even the import therefrom.
We therefore challenge Ms Charlotte Osei, and the institution of the Electoral Commission, to tell Ghanaians, and indeed in an explicatory sense, based on factual and statistical analysis, that convinces her that the current register is not flawed in any way.
We stand by the adage that "if it's not broken, there's no need to fix it," and demand her reason for engaging the services of a known corrupted and failed Kenyan electoral miscreant, Dismas Ong'ondi, to audit Ghana's voters register. What pedigree of his achievements enamoured her to engage his 'botched' services.
Secondly, we challenge her to explain, on what framework of modalities that the register must be purged; and finally, upon whose authority, involving which political parties of the IPAC protocol this contract is made.
We contend that the supposed and much talked about independence of the Electoral Commission, goes no further beyond its supposed neutrality; therefore we are emphatic to the EC, and its appointees that they are entirely accountable to the people of Ghana, whose taxes fund the institution.
Source: CONCERNED GHANAIANS AGAINST ELECTORAL FRAUD (COGEF) UK.
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Adreba Abrefa Damoa 00447901119669
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