Court cases: EC is dabbling in triviality – Professor Kweku Asare

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Otaniiba 9 years ago

HER MISSION THERE IS TO RIG THE ELECTION IN FAVOUR OF NDC

HER MISSION THERE IS TO RIG THE ELECTION IN FAVOUR OF NDC
OLD SOLDIER 9 years ago

Author:- Victor A. Young .....
Forget about prayer for God's intervention for victory on December 7. God doesn't condone corruption, thievery and murder as NDC have been doing under the cover of darkness. He has heard the c ...
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Author:- Victor A. Young .....
Forget about prayer for God's intervention for victory on December 7. God doesn't condone corruption, thievery and murder as NDC have been doing under the cover of darkness. He has heard the cries and seen the suffering of Ghanaians since they sent their prayers and supplication to his throne. God has anointed and appointed Nana Akufo-Addo to rescue Ghanaians from NDC's economic bondage already and the evidence clearly shows. Nana is the people's choice and that's a fact nobody can deny. So stop wasting your time; this time around no election fraud can save NDC. It's too late to ask for divine intervention..!!!
Kojo 9 years ago

Some people will always vote for thieves, murderers, etc so should we allow everyone because people will be disenfranchised?

Some people will always vote for thieves, murderers, etc so should we allow everyone because people will be disenfranchised?
OLD SOLDIER 9 years ago

When Kwaku Baako informed us about the atrocities of Kwesi Pratt during PNDC Regime, some of us did not believe until the truth was confirmed during the NRC. Kwesi Pratt is the most dangerous Journalist Ghana had ever have, h ...
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When Kwaku Baako informed us about the atrocities of Kwesi Pratt during PNDC Regime, some of us did not believe until the truth was confirmed during the NRC. Kwesi Pratt is the most dangerous Journalist Ghana had ever have, he had the gut to recommend his fellow journalists to be executed by PNDC. Pratt even recommended Baako to be killed by the regime, thank God Baako was instead touchered violently and severely but his life was spared. This is what Kwesi Pratt can do. Now Pratt is a secret agent to NDC and US Embassy in Ghana. May God forgive Pratt and spare him the untold evils that will come upon him and his generations. The souls of those journalist killed through Pratt's recommendations to PNDC will never forgive Pratt. Now Pratt has the guts to take Diplomatic Passport and smuggled his weak-headed children to work at the Ministries under Mills NDC, may God forgive Pratt and his dependance and spare them of the evils ahead of them...
LONDONBRIDGE 9 years ago

Mahama wants Nduom's votes now that the Volta region is looking very dicey or effectively out of the question and together with his Fante cabal think Nduom is a soft target who can be pummeled into submission using Charlotte ...
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Mahama wants Nduom's votes now that the Volta region is looking very dicey or effectively out of the question and together with his Fante cabal think Nduom is a soft target who can be pummeled into submission using Charlotte as proxy.
A very, very useless and hopeless fight if you ask me. Mahama just doesn't want to acknowledge the fact that it is over for him. He will know on December 7th whether the Komenda sugar is really sugar.
Nduom is on the ballot case closed.
Kotey 9 years ago

IS Kweku Asare sick? what infantile logic from a so called professor.

IS Kweku Asare sick? what infantile logic from a so called professor.
JOHN 9 years ago

GHANAWEB SHOULD STOP REFERING TO THIS MAN AS A PROFESSOR. THERE IS NOTHING SENSIBLE IN THIS MAN'S HEAD. HIS HEAD IS ONLY FILLED WITH HATRED AND TRIBALISM JUST BECAUSE HE THINKS ITS UNPRECEDENTED TO SEE A NORTHNER BEING A PRE ...
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GHANAWEB SHOULD STOP REFERING TO THIS MAN AS A PROFESSOR. THERE IS NOTHING SENSIBLE IN THIS MAN'S HEAD. HIS HEAD IS ONLY FILLED WITH HATRED AND TRIBALISM JUST BECAUSE HE THINKS ITS UNPRECEDENTED TO SEE A NORTHNER BEING A PRESIDENT
Mr. Watch 9 years ago

You are trabalist. Do not bring trabalisim in politics because it is very dangerous to argue in this manner. John Mahama is a ghanaian and therefore has every right and to be elected as a president of Ghana. Please leave the ...
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You are trabalist. Do not bring trabalisim in politics because it is very dangerous to argue in this manner. John Mahama is a ghanaian and therefore has every right and to be elected as a president of Ghana. Please leave the trabalism aside when we dealing and talking about our mother country Ghana. Ghana as a country is so precious that we should not indulge in such trabal activities and talkings. I am of the opinion that every Ghanaian, be where he comes from, has the fundermental Right to contest and to be elected as President if he or she fulfills the rules laid down by the Constitution. Please bear in mind: YOUR POLITICAL OPPONENT IS NOT YOUR ENEMY.
Kofi 9 years ago

John, who cares whether or not he is professor? Some of you are so filled with envy and hatred that you are reducing your life span for no sensible reason. Can you get a life for yourself? In the US, we don't gloat in titles. ...
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John, who cares whether or not he is professor? Some of you are so filled with envy and hatred that you are reducing your life span for no sensible reason. Can you get a life for yourself? In the US, we don't gloat in titles. I can tell you Kwaku Azar doesn't care whether idiots call him prof or not.
Nana Addo 9 years ago

Exactly.Absolutely infantile.

Exactly.Absolutely infantile.

jazzyj 9 years ago

EC has every right to go to court. Useless Prof. Ndoum is nobody.

EC has every right to go to court. Useless Prof. Ndoum is nobody.
ROSEMARY 9 years ago

Charlotte osei is extremely childish and mischievous..... . Dangerous to our young democracy.. .

Charlotte osei is extremely childish and mischievous..... . Dangerous to our young democracy.. .
ROSEMARY 9 years ago

.. Charlotte shouldn't take Ghanaians for granted at all at all at all.....

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Charlotte Osei EC Boss
It is exactly one month to the crucial Presidential and Parliamentary elections, but everything is in a limbo. Instead of the count-down, we are now counting the number of court suits against the Electoral Commission.

When an Accra High Court, presided over by Mr. Justice Kyei Baffour, ruled on Friday in favour of a petition before it, and ordered the Electoral Commission to allow Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, founder and flagbearer of the Progressive People’s Party, to correct the details in his nomination forms and re-submit same for consideration, as part of an elaborate process to put his name on the national presidential ballot paper, it opened the floodgates for more suits against the commission.

Today, lawyers for Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings are expected to move to an Accra High Court, in a case in which the former First Lady is seeking the re-instatement of her name on the 2016 presidential ballot box. Tomorrow, another court in Accra is expected to give a directive on a similar case involving Dr. Edward Nasiri Mahama, the disqualified flagbearer of the People’s National Convention.

There is every indication that the commission would be very busy in court in the preceding days. With the presidential and presidential elections at the home stretch, the Electoral Commission should be more concerned about the election processes, and not petitions.

For me, as a social commentator, the problem should be laid squarely at the doorsteps of President John Dramani Mahama, who thrust the heavy burden of supervision over this nation’s elections on the tiny shoulders of largely, untried and less than clear nationality identity of Mrs. Charlotte Osei.

There two major reasons why I have always believed Mrs. Osei has no business leading the Electoral Commission. If you Google Charlotte Osei to Wikipedia, you would be told that Charlotte’s mother was a Nigerian. The old lady visited her ancestors about six months ago.

Charlotte herself was born in Nigeria. We have a Constitution, which states clearly in Article 44 (1) thus: “A person is not qualified to be appointed a member of the Electoral Commissioner unless he (or she) is qualified to be elected as a Member of Parliament.

Article 94 (1) on qualification and eligibility of a Member of Parliament states: “Subject to the provisions of this article, a person shall not be qualified to be a Member of Parliament, unless he (or she) is a citizen of Ghana, has attained the age of 21 years, and a registered voter.

Among many others, “a person shall not be qualified to be a Member of Parliament if he (or she) owes allegiance to a country other than Ghana.”

Constitutional experts argue that Mrs. Osei could have acquired Ghanaian citizenship through the father, listed as Kesson-Smith, or through marriage to the person known as Mr. Osei, definitely a Ghanaian name. Be it as it may, Kesson-Smith is one name that could resonate in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ghana and Nigeria.

What is never in dispute is that while a student at the University of Ghana, Charlotte refused to be identified with Ghana. She was known and called ‘Ama Alata.’ I do not believe any true Ghanaian would want to be identified as ‘Alata.’

Mrs. Charlotte Osei obtained her Masters in Law at the Queens University in Canada. A number of her mates were Ghanaians. Charlotte decided, out of her own volition, to join the Nigerian International Students Association at the university. By then, her room-mate was Lady Julia, now wife of Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the Asantehene. I am told that there was a vibrant Ghana International Students Association, but our current Chairperson of the Electoral Commission turned her back on the Ghanaian association.

For her, she was a Nigeri
ARABA 9 years ago

why has politics lowered some learned people to the gutters. do they think at all

why has politics lowered some learned people to the gutters. do they think at all
Mr. Watch 9 years ago

The EC has the right to seek redress of any issue which in her opinion not clear. But the problem here is that the EC is not competent to prepare and hold elections in this small country like Ghana. The EC is interprating the ...
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The EC has the right to seek redress of any issue which in her opinion not clear. But the problem here is that the EC is not competent to prepare and hold elections in this small country like Ghana. The EC is interprating the electoral laws according to their taste. This is wrong. It is apparent that the EC does not hire competent Lawyers, even though the EC Boss ist a Lawyer by profession. But as we know "The Casok does not make a Priest nor a Stonewall a Prision"
kwabena Kwakye 9 years ago

NDC POLITICKING TRICKS (1) NDC WILL HIDE BEHIND EC TO STOP SMALLER PARTIES TO AVOID SECOND ROUND (2) NDC WILL HIDE BEHIND EC TO SUPPRESS THE MEDIA DURING ELECTION DAY (3) NDC WILL HIDE BEHIND PALIAMENT TO APPROVE LOANS THESE ...
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NDC POLITICKING TRICKS (1) NDC WILL HIDE BEHIND EC TO STOP SMALLER PARTIES TO AVOID SECOND ROUND (2) NDC WILL HIDE BEHIND EC TO SUPPRESS THE MEDIA DURING ELECTION DAY (3) NDC WILL HIDE BEHIND PALIAMENT TO APPROVE LOANS THESE ARE MONIES THEY NEED TO INFLUENCE POLLING AGENTS, SOME JOUNALISTS, EC OFFICIALS (4) NPP SHOULD WATCH CAREFULLY THE FOLLOWING (a) THE PRINTING OF DOUBLE 'PINK SHEETS' (b) THE PRINTING OF DOUBLE BALLOT PAPERS (c) NPP SHOULD WATCH THE POLLING AGENTS CAREFULLY. IF POSSIBLE CHANGE THEM RANDOMLY
Asoreba 9 years ago

The EC is acting as if the Commission was an ELECTED entity by the people of Ghana with a mandate! Where does she get her "powers" from? Why is she thinking she does not ACCOUNT to Ghanaians?

The EC is acting as if the Commission was an ELECTED entity by the people of Ghana with a mandate! Where does she get her "powers" from? Why is she thinking she does not ACCOUNT to Ghanaians?
Agyeman 9 years ago

So other Ghanaians or institutions can go to court but the EC has to right to , is that your thinking? the EC was created by law and so the EC can go to court to seek redress when it feels it has been unfairly treated. this t ...
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So other Ghanaians or institutions can go to court but the EC has to right to , is that your thinking? the EC was created by law and so the EC can go to court to seek redress when it feels it has been unfairly treated. this tye of picking on ladies in higher public offices should stop. prof, for once try to be truthful. let Ghana be from your knowledge sincerely.
Kofi 9 years ago

It was clear from the very start the EC is a big mess. Let them expose their incompetence to the world.

It was clear from the very start the EC is a big mess. Let them expose their incompetence to the world.
Wooden Kote 9 years ago

Please the man's name is Kwaku and not Kweku.

Please the man's name is Kwaku and not Kweku.

Ashantipanyi 9 years ago

Don't stay in America and Fucking come and defined our Constitution for us. If court can rule on a criminal case that is pending at police headquarters, then Ghana constitution had turned outside down. I want to you question ...
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Don't stay in America and Fucking come and defined our Constitution for us. If court can rule on a criminal case that is pending at police headquarters, then Ghana constitution had turned outside down. I want to you question the limit of Judge Baffour vicdict, than questioning the mandatory constitution of EC.
Yaw Adu-Asare 9 years ago

Kwaku Asare knows better than every Ghanaian.
Hello prof, the EC has a constitutional mandate to perform a duty for Ghanaians. Just wait for the ballot boxes on 8/12/16.

Kwaku Asare knows better than every Ghanaian.
Hello prof, the EC has a constitutional mandate to perform a duty for Ghanaians. Just wait for the ballot boxes on 8/12/16.
DOG BEATER 9 years ago

IS THAT WHAT U LEARNT AS A STUDENT. THAT THE ECS CORE MANDATE IS NOT TO VERIFY THAT ONLY ELIGIBLE CANDIDATES GO ON THE BALLOT. SO WHAT IS THE USE OF ART 94 AND CI 94 ETC.FLIPFLOPPER SINGING NPPS TUNE

IS THAT WHAT U LEARNT AS A STUDENT. THAT THE ECS CORE MANDATE IS NOT TO VERIFY THAT ONLY ELIGIBLE CANDIDATES GO ON THE BALLOT. SO WHAT IS THE USE OF ART 94 AND CI 94 ETC.FLIPFLOPPER SINGING NPPS TUNE
Akhnaten 3 9 years ago

What a fool!!! An ignoramus to boot.EC can't put idiots and nonentities on the ballot just to have elections.

What a fool!!! An ignoramus to boot.EC can't put idiots and nonentities on the ballot just to have elections.
Kofi 9 years ago

For your information, the EC has been doing that for a long time! How many of such "idiots and nonentities" don't we have in the presidency and parliament?

For your information, the EC has been doing that for a long time! How many of such "idiots and nonentities" don't we have in the presidency and parliament?
CHE 9 years ago

Has this expert read the qualifications to become a presidential nominee for elections in Ghana? Such rank academic insincerity

Has this expert read the qualifications to become a presidential nominee for elections in Ghana? Such rank academic insincerity
DE(GREAT) 9 years ago

This prof. Is hitting below the belt .is actually a prof.?

This prof. Is hitting below the belt .is actually a prof.?

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