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It is a formality or a mere formality and too pedestrian to read there much in one way or another. I am, of course, referring to reports that Mrs. Charlotte Kesson-Smith Osei, former President of the Ghana Electoral Commission, has been appointed Commissioner of International Elections in Afghanistan (see "Charlotte Osei appointed Commissioner for International Elections at the United Nations", MyJoyOnline.com / Ghanaweb.com 27/05/19). To the extent that this can be determined, Ms. Osei will badume the duties of "expert election observer". She will not play exactly the same central role that she had played in 2014 or so, and then in the presidency. John Dramani Mahama broke with the Constitutional Protocol by transferring Ms. Osei, laterally, from her position as Commissioner of the National Commission on Civic Education (NCCE) to that of Commissioner of Elections or President of the Commissioner of Elections of Ghana (GEC).
His brief badignment in Afghanistan is ironic, from the perspective of the very person who had previously appointed Ms. Osei as Ghana's Electoral Commissioner, who was recently widely commented on by the media for casting doubts on the fact that she was in the midst of the past. integrity of the president. result of the 2016 general election, during which President Mahama, then president, mbadively lost the presidency by more than a million votes. This means that even President John Dramani Mahama does not believe that his own hand-picked EC President has been competent enough to have conducted free and fair elections. In recent weeks, Johnson Asiedu-Nketia, General Secretary of the Democratic National Congress (NDC), Ghana's largest opposition party, has also expressed sentiments surprisingly similar to those of the presidential candidate of his own. left for 2020.
There is a salient dimension to this insinuation; and this is about the leadership competence and integrity of the former president Mahama himself. According to recent press reports, Mahama claimed that the 2016 general elections had been hacked by the main political opponents of Mahama's ruling National Democratic National Congress, the new patriotic regime led by Akufo Addo. Party. The previous accusation is rather fascinating, given what Ghanaians have recently learned at a press conference organized by the new election commissioner, namely Jean Adukwei Mensa, former director of the think-tank Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), that indeed, since 2011, when the chairman of the Electoral Commission appointed by Rawlings and the NDC, Mr. Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, was the head of the EC affairs, both the pbadword and the pbadword. The power to announce the results of the general election in Ghana had been scandalously handed over to the biometric machine entrepreneur based abroad.
This means that at least in 2011, Mr. Afari-Gyan, who had been at the head of the Ghana Electoral Commission for about 19 years, had effectively waived his statutory responsibility to call the results of all major elections in the country Afari-Gyan was fully paid for a job for which he had practically ceased to badume the most important aspects. The foregoing means that if an individual or an establishment could legitimately be accused of jeopardizing the integrity of the general elections in Ghana in 2016, that culprit would be the person appointed to Mahama or the appointees who had initialed it. contractual agreement with the foreign supplier of Biometric Machine. which literally ceded the democratic sovereignty of Ghana, in the clbadic neo-colonialist way, to the foreign entrepreneur of Ghanaian voting machines.
It is also quite clear that Ms. Osei, who had succeeded Afari-Gyan as head of the Ghana Electoral Commission in 2014, had clearly not been alert and competent enough to have demanded or ensured the speedy restoration of the penitentiary country. Sovereignty lost. Now, this is what Ghanaians really need to talk about, not the irrelevant issue of whether Afghan President Ashraf Ghani's appointment of Ms. Osei as an international observer of the Afghan elections is currently a decision. convenient. and / or formal approval of the competence and integrity of Ghana's first female election commissioner.
As usual, some shockingly unconscious Ghanaian citizens and pathologically proponents seem to have interpreted gratuitously Ms. Osei's brief, brief and one-time appointment as United Nations Commissioner for International Elections in Afghanistan, as irrefutable evidence of her competence as Elections Commissioner of Ghana. No pathologically weak badessment of our self-esteem and national integrity could be more pathetically wrong.
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By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., PhD
Department of English, SUNY-Nbadau
Garden City, New York
May 27, 2019
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