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Editor-In-Chief of the New Crusading Guide Abdul Malik Kweku Baako Junior has sued the Attorney General over Former EC Boss' removal from office.

He dragged the AG to the Supreme Court on grounds that the Committee set up by the Chief Justice went beyond their powers in suggesting the removal of Charlotte Osei as EC Chair.

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Thursday, June 28, 2018, removed from office, the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Charlotte Osei and her two deputies, Amadu Sulley and Georgina Opoku Amankwah.

He was bound by recommendations by the five-member committee set up by the Chief Justice, Justice Sophia Akuffo to remove Mrs Charlotte Osei from office as Chair of the Electoral Commission (EC) private legal practitioner Samson Lardy Anyenini has said.

Government through the Ministry of Information has hinted of a possible prosecution based on the findings of the committee as the report has been forwarded to the Attorney General's office.

“It is the Attorney General who is basically in charge of legal matters, prosecutions and issues like that. So the Attorney General will study the report by herself and I’m sure in due course she will report to the Ghanaian people on the series of measures that she will take in order to ensure compliance with the recommendations of this committee,” he said.

Australia Olympic Games fisco

President Akufo-Addo has reinstated Pius Hadzide as deputy Sports Minister after indicating that the investigations conducted into the Visa racketeering scandal exonerated him.

Akufo-Addo made the announcement when he delivered a speech at the NPP 2018 National Delegate Conference to elect new executives to steer the affairs of the party when he spoke about the government's plan to tackle corruption.

Akufo-Addo said “on the Australian visa scandal which has exonerated the suspended deputy minister for youth and sports from any complicity in the visa fraud, I will lift his suspension on Monday and return him to the office.

Deputy Sports Minister Pius Hadzide says he knew he was going to be exonerated during the time of his suspension from the Ministry.

Mr Hadzide was suspended by the President of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo after he was alleged to have had a hand in the visa racketeering scandal that rocked the nation’s participation in the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia.

“I knew I will be clear off from all allegations because I didn’t do anything wrong, Mr Hadzide told Happy FM.

“I was surprised when I got the suspension. I know President Nana Akufo Addo doesn't tolerate any act of corruption, so he will get to the bottom of the allegation,” he added.

However, former CHRAJ boss Emile Short insists government must put out the full report in the open for all to have the details of the investigations.

“I would prefer that we have a full report of the investigation and the grounds on which the investigative body arrived at its conclusion which led to the exoneration of Pius Ahadzie. We shouldn’t focus on the President announcing the exoneration instead of the Investigating Body. The substance of the report should be a major concern,” he said.

GFA dissolution

An Accra High Court has granted an injunction against officials of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), thereby paving the way for the Registrar General to be appointed the official liquidator of the local football governing body.

The Attorney General, Gloria Akuffo, went to court with a firm plan to liquidate the GFA because, according to her, the Association in its current state is not fit for the purpose for which it was established.

The plan to liquidate the GFA was contained in a petition filed by the Attorney-General, acting on behalf of the government, last month at the High Court for the dissolution of the GFA.

"We are asking that the court should order that the Registrar General as the legal liquidator be asked to take over," Ms Akuffo told journalists after securing an interim injunction on the activities of the GFA on Tuesday, June 12.

"That will be the body that will see to the future of the establishment of the administration this FA. So we are not just throwing away the baby with the bath water but we don't add rotten soup to fresh soup, we need to get it right perhaps now is when... but we cant pretend we are running a good FA with all these things that are going on".