EC’s powers must be redefined - Kofi Bentil

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Otanii ba 9 years ago

THERE MUST BE A CHANGE ONE OF THESE DAYS

THERE MUST BE A CHANGE ONE OF THESE DAYS
Nana Kuffuor, Abeka 9 years ago

Look at this rubbish IMANI man so called Vice President who are just NPP surrogates. His boss, that opportunist Franklyn Cudjoe had the audacity to say some of the NDC promises are doable or empty. When it comes to NPP promis ...
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Look at this rubbish IMANI man so called Vice President who are just NPP surrogates. His boss, that opportunist Franklyn Cudjoe had the audacity to say some of the NDC promises are doable or empty. When it comes to NPP promises, IMANI went dumb. Let them open their mouths and NPP will skin them alive.
Odza The Fireman 9 years ago

Well said my brother Nana Kuffour! Who should redefine the EC's powers? Does the constitution not define the EC's powers? if at any time you think the EC has overstepped its bounds go to court; simple.

Well said my brother Nana Kuffour! Who should redefine the EC's powers? Does the constitution not define the EC's powers? if at any time you think the EC has overstepped its bounds go to court; simple.
BOY KOFI 9 years ago

Who is perfect and which institution is perfect in this world?Thank you.

Who is perfect and which institution is perfect in this world?Thank you.
Alhaji Kweku 9 years ago

Foolish talk. What is imperfection here. People must learn to strictly adhere to the rules of the game rather than looking for favoritisms and unlawful considerations. Too known people. Try your luck next time.

Foolish talk. What is imperfection here. People must learn to strictly adhere to the rules of the game rather than looking for favoritisms and unlawful considerations. Too known people. Try your luck next time.
Ay3ka 9 years ago

Kokompe Lawyer must be redefined to suit the whims and caprices of this mischievous character and his political sponsors! I can now detect a growing chasm between him and his boss Franklyn Cudjoe. Could this be a clever way o ...
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Kokompe Lawyer must be redefined to suit the whims and caprices of this mischievous character and his political sponsors! I can now detect a growing chasm between him and his boss Franklyn Cudjoe. Could this be a clever way of hedging their bets by covering all the bases, and not putting all their eggs in one basket?
ROSEMARY 9 years ago

Extremely flimsy, trivial, childish charlotte osei reasons indeed... .. .. . Ghanaians have nothing to lose by giving them A TWO DAY'S ULTIMATUM to correct detected errors or be exempted from the elections... ....

Extremely flimsy, trivial, childish charlotte osei reasons indeed... .. .. . Ghanaians have nothing to lose by giving them A TWO DAY'S ULTIMATUM to correct detected errors or be exempted from the elections... ....
efo 9 years ago

What are the flaws? for the EC to enforce laws. You guys are jokers. They are the same people preaching about corruption.

What are the flaws? for the EC to enforce laws. You guys are jokers. They are the same people preaching about corruption.
kofi agbota 9 years ago

NPP man clear off. We know where you belong to. NPP man shut up

NPP man clear off. We know where you belong to. NPP man shut up
Samson 9 years ago

Who is this Kofi Bentil at all? I bet that if he is given the job he will not be able to do half what Charlotte Osei has so far done. Curtail the EC's powers? He should go and lobby parliament. These IMANI people are talking ...
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Who is this Kofi Bentil at all? I bet that if he is given the job he will not be able to do half what Charlotte Osei has so far done. Curtail the EC's powers? He should go and lobby parliament. These IMANI people are talking too much .

GOWAN 9 years ago

The opaqueness of the EC, coupled with it's misguided belief in it's awesome powers demonstrated by this EC, with the oft cited mantra of I am independent and therefore unanswerable to nobody, with a despotic failed President ...
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The opaqueness of the EC, coupled with it's misguided belief in it's awesome powers demonstrated by this EC, with the oft cited mantra of I am independent and therefore unanswerable to nobody, with a despotic failed President lurking in the shadows, and whispering nothingness in her ears is what would set this country up in flames.
If the EC is convinced most of the political parties on their books numbering over 20, are not functional, the laws are there to wipe those parties off their books. It was not because of anything those laws to wipe those parties off their books were written.
Adopting this circuitous route of dealing with that glaring problem through disqualification of some of the candidates of these parties, when some of these parties satisfy every condition on the books to exist as a political party in our multiparty democracy, is inconsistent and incongruous with sound reason, fairness and an interpretation of the laws.
The wrongful application of the laws by the EC in a manner to be described as transiently hazy and incoherent, to satisfy and achieve a certain perceived and rightfully so, myopic and altruistic end, is what makes the EC as it is presently constituted, imperfect.
It must be fixed and brought into conformity with it's true intent and mandate as a neutral body tasked with ensuring the processes and procedures underpinning our constitutional and fundamental human right to self-determination, is respected and upheld honestly, credibly and transparently to safeguard the peace and stability and the continuation of our democratic process.
That is the foremost issue we must attempt to address holistically. We cannot have those parties on the books to unduly influence IPAC decisions in a certain direction and then turnaround and scream you are disqualified.
The EC must fix it's image and credibility as a neutral body.
jojo 9 years ago

Some people talk and claim to be expert but sometimes they make some statement and as an apprentice carpenter, I see them as hype learned people. The powers the EC used to disqualify these comic noisy aspirants' was drafted a ...
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Some people talk and claim to be expert but sometimes they make some statement and as an apprentice carpenter, I see them as hype learned people. The powers the EC used to disqualify these comic noisy aspirants' was drafted and enshrine into our constitution my our parliament . A strong arm of the republic so what is this Kofi Bentil talking about? Master give us a break.
Peniz Chopper 9 years ago

Can WAEC prevent an exam candidate from taking an Exam?

Rules are rules and they must be followed and obeyed. Only idiots don't know this.

Can WAEC prevent an exam candidate from taking an Exam?

Rules are rules and they must be followed and obeyed. Only idiots don't know this.
SAY IT AS IT IS 9 years ago

Kofi, it seems you are learned but you sometimes talk as a fool who talks before thinking.
What is your meaning in this whole issue at stake?
Is it wrong that we doing the right thing looking at the evidences given?
Must ...
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Kofi, it seems you are learned but you sometimes talk as a fool who talks before thinking.
What is your meaning in this whole issue at stake?
Is it wrong that we doing the right thing looking at the evidences given?
Must we as a growing nation not correct wrong doing?
You really brake my heart as a ghanaian to hear this from you as a person.
Please , think before you thalk next time , it is bevoming too much for you seem not to reason really.
Nna 9 years ago

Don't mind him and his useless think tank (IMANI). It's as if they're the wisest people in the country. Today this, tomorrow that......what serious policy alternatives have they proposed so far to our plethora of failed poli ...
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Don't mind him and his useless think tank (IMANI). It's as if they're the wisest people in the country. Today this, tomorrow that......what serious policy alternatives have they proposed so far to our plethora of failed policies? Go bed Mr. Bentil and leave the EC alone
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Sam 9 years ago

The hopeless and foolish idiot Bentil. Cassava lawyer.Stupid fool. Since when did it occured to you that the powers of the Ec needs to be redefined? Useless and foolish clown.Fuck your moter,s anus

The hopeless and foolish idiot Bentil. Cassava lawyer.Stupid fool. Since when did it occured to you that the powers of the Ec needs to be redefined? Useless and foolish clown.Fuck your moter,s anus
ABC 9 years ago

Bentil, you and your boss should tell Ghanaians fact checks on NPP manifesto please.

Bentil, you and your boss should tell Ghanaians fact checks on NPP manifesto please.
G. K. Berko 9 years ago

If the powers the EC is exercising are within its legal authority, where then reside the flaws Kofi Bentil is alluding to?

If Bentil believes the Laws empowering the EC are flawed, by whatever standards he is using to meas ...
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If the powers the EC is exercising are within its legal authority, where then reside the flaws Kofi Bentil is alluding to?

If Bentil believes the Laws empowering the EC are flawed, by whatever standards he is using to measure the Institution, he ought to proceed to the Parliament for redress but not ascribe to the EC any such unrecognized faults.

The only flaws that could be reasonably assigned to the EC are those that impinge on the basic tenets of Democracy and Human Rights, and might not be caught by the powers our Constitution assigns to it. It is up to Bentil to, then, define and locate what those might be, but also fault the Parliament for them and not the EC. So long as the EC acts within its Constitutional constraints, Bentil would have to do more to charge the EC of any flaws. If Bentil and his cohorts at IMANI had paid timely due attention and act accordingly, they might have helped to avert any such flaws that he is now attributing to the EC.

The reactionary response by IMANI to Public uproar that may or may not be based upon correct information is simply nauseating.

Long Live Ghana!!!
Abongo 9 years ago

Another book long fool

Another book long fool

Boss 9 years ago

I perfectly agree with this. The EC powers must definitely be looked at again. Disqualifying all those candidates is not good and it certainly disenfranchise their supporters.

I perfectly agree with this. The EC powers must definitely be looked at again. Disqualifying all those candidates is not good and it certainly disenfranchise their supporters.
Paa Joe 9 years ago

LOOK AT FOLK WHO CLAIMS TO BE EDUCATED MAKING SUCH A LOOSE STATEMENT.

WHY SHOULD THE POWERS OF EC BE REDEFINED.

THESE SO CALLED PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRANTS WRE CAUGHT HAVING FORGED THEIR ELECTION APPLICATION PAPERS.

SHOUL ...
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LOOK AT FOLK WHO CLAIMS TO BE EDUCATED MAKING SUCH A LOOSE STATEMENT.

WHY SHOULD THE POWERS OF EC BE REDEFINED.

THESE SO CALLED PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRANTS WRE CAUGHT HAVING FORGED THEIR ELECTION APPLICATION PAPERS.

SHOULD THIS GIVE WAY TO REDEFINATION OF THE EC.

DO YOU KNOW WHAT, WE HAVE SOCIOECONOMIC STAGNATION IN THE COUNTRY,BECAUSE, MANY GHANAIANS AT THE PUBLIC SECTOR AND PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES HAVE AKWAYS FIRGED THEIR WAY THROUGH WITH FALSE DEGREE CE´RTICICATES AND PHD TITLES TO GAIN POSITION IN THE COUNTRY.

SHOULD FORGERY,CHEATING AND MANIPULATION BE ALLOWED TO GO ON IN THE COUNTRY.

HOW DO WE PROGRESS AND ADVANCE IN EVER COMPETITIVE WORLD IN TECHNOLOGY, SCIENTIFIC INNOVATION AND TECHNICAL KNW-HOW.
Jojo 9 years ago

cAN YOU JUST IMAGINE, A FOLK WHO WANTS TO BE PRESENT OF GHANA,THAT HAVE PRACTICED LAW IN THE COUNTRY FOR ALMOST THIRTY YEARS WITHOUT LAW CERTIFICATE:

WHEN HE WAS LAST QUESTIONED OF HIS LAW CERIFICATE, WHAT DID HE SAY, IT G ...
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cAN YOU JUST IMAGINE, A FOLK WHO WANTS TO BE PRESENT OF GHANA,THAT HAVE PRACTICED LAW IN THE COUNTRY FOR ALMOST THIRTY YEARS WITHOUT LAW CERTIFICATE:

WHEN HE WAS LAST QUESTIONED OF HIS LAW CERIFICATE, WHAT DID HE SAY, IT GOT LOST WHEN HIS HOUSE WAS FLOODED.

HAS THE SECRETARY OF THE LEGAL COUNCIL GHANA AND THE GHANA BAR ASSOCIATION EVER MADE AN ATTEMPT TO ASK FOR A COPY OF HIS CERIFICATE FROM THE COLLEGE OR INN THAT HE ATTENDED IN LONDON.

THEY HAVE ALL BEEN SILENT ON THIS.

ARE WE NOT VERY SHAMEFUL AND DISGRACEFUL PEOPLE ON EARTH.

KEEP ON WITH YOUR IRRATIONAL STATEMENTS THAT ONLY GOES ON TO DESTROY THE LAND OF OUR BIRTH.

WHAT A HOPELESS AND USELESS SOUND OF NOTE.

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