{"id":446113,"date":"2017-12-12T05:30:36","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T05:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/12\/provide-petition-seeking-my-removal-charlotte-osei-to-akufo-addo\/"},"modified":"2017-12-12T05:30:36","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T05:30:36","slug":"provide-petition-seeking-my-removal-charlotte-osei-to-akufo-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/12\/provide-petition-seeking-my-removal-charlotte-osei-to-akufo-addo\/","title":{"rendered":"Provide petition seeking my removal &#8211; Charlotte Osei to Akufo-Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Tuesday, 12 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>3news.com <\/p>\n<p>2017-12-12<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/24484388.295.jpg\" alt=\"Charlotte Osei Akufo Addo8\" title=\"Charlotte Osei Akufo Addo8\" width=\"295\" height=\"176\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and Charlotte Osei, EC Chairperson<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1513056636_614_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">The Chair of Ghana\u2019s Electoral Commission, Mrs. Charlotte Osei, has requested President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to furnish her with a copy of the petition seeking her removal from office for alleged breaches of the law. <\/p>\n<p>Some unnamed staff of the Commission in July 2017 petitioned Nana Akufo-Addo to remove Mrs. Osei over alleged abuse of office, causing financial loss to the state and breaches of Ghana\u2019s procurement laws. <\/p>\n<p>The petition was then forwarded to the Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo, to establish a prima facie case based on which impeachment proceedings would commence against the EC chair. <\/p>\n<p>Sources close to the CJ\u2019s office has revealed to 3News that a prima facie case has been established on some of the allegations against Mrs. Osei who has since December 6, 2017 been invited to by the CJ to appear before a Committee for the impeachment hearing. <\/p>\n<p>But ahead of the hearing before the CJ-established Committee, Mrs. Osei on Monday, December 11, 2017 wrote to President Akufo-Addo and the CJ to make available to her, a copy of the petition, which is the basis of the impending proceedings against her. <\/p>\n<p>In her letter to the President, Mrs. Osei suggested the petition, which was presented to the President by legal practitioner Maxwell Opoku-Agyemang, was brought to her attention through media reports. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cRespectfully your Excellency, I would appreciate being furnished with a copy of the said petition to enable me obtain the requisite advice I may need on the matter,\u201d she requested in the letter. <\/p>\n<p>In a similar letter to the CJ, she said she has since July 2017 when the petition was filed, not received a copy, noting  what she had from the CJ was \u201ca statement of the allegation against me\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>She said she has since August 16, 2017 given a written response to the allegations as was contained in the statement and same submitted to the CJ with the relevant documents. <\/p>\n<p>The EC chair said a letter from the CJ dated August 3, 2017 stated that the President has forwarded the said petition to her (the CJ) to \u201cdetermine whether or not there is a prima facie case raised by the petition pursuant to Article 146(3)\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have heard no further\u201d from the Chief Justice since August 16, 2017, Mrs. Osei said in her latest letter to the CJ dated December 11.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 32 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() 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