{"id":448355,"date":"2017-12-19T18:30:38","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T18:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/19\/impeachment-of-ec-chair-deputies-to-be-done-in-camera\/"},"modified":"2017-12-19T18:30:38","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T18:30:38","slug":"impeachment-of-ec-chair-deputies-to-be-done-in-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/19\/impeachment-of-ec-chair-deputies-to-be-done-in-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"Impeachment of EC Chair, Deputies to be done \u2018in-camera\u2019"},"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, 19 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>3news.com <\/p>\n<p>2017-12-19<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/98465220.295.jpg\" alt=\"Charlotte Osei 0932\" title=\"Charlotte Osei 0932\" width=\"295\" height=\"196\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Charlotte Osei<\/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\/1513708238_231_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">A Supreme Court judge has been appointed to preside over the committee to investigate the chairperson of Ghana\u2019s Electoral Commission, Charlotte Osei and her two deputies.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Osei and her deputies \u2013 Sulley Amadu and Mrs Georgina Opoku-Amankwa \u2013 have been accused of corruption and breaches of the law, which if found culpable, will lead to their impeachment.<\/p>\n<p>Some anonymous staff of the Commission in July 2017 petitioned President Akufo-Addo to remove the chairperson over alleged abuse of office, causing financial loss to the State and breaches of Ghana\u2019s procurement laws.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Osei has since denied the claims, which she described as unfounded and accused her deputies who are also facing impeachment over corruption, as masterminds of the petition.<\/p>\n<p>As per the constitution, President Akufo-Addo notwithstanding forwarded the petition to the Chief Justice to weigh the allegations to establish if there is a prima facie case to trigger impeachment against the three.<\/p>\n<p>A statement issued by the Judicial Secretary Tuesday said, \u201cthere was a prima facie case against the three officials of the Electoral Commission\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Consequent to that, the statement said the Chief Justice has set up the five-member Committee to commence impeachment hearing against the three commissioners.<\/p>\n<p>It however failed to name members of the Committee, which it said, would be presided over by a Supreme Court judge.<\/p>\n<p><b><\/b>\u2018In-camera\u2019 hearing<\/p>\n<p>Hearing of the case will be conducted in-camera, the statement said, but did not say when the impeachment hearing will commence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Committee, which will sit in camera, in line with normal practices, consists of three justices of the Superior Court appointed by the Judicial Council and two other persons appointed by the Chief Justice on the advice of the Council of State,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>It added: \u201cThe Committee is chaired by a Justice of the Supreme Court\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The statement urged the public to 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Mrs. Osei and her deputies \u2013 Sulley Amadu and Mrs Georgina Opoku-Amankwa \u2013 have been accused of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":415803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Impeachment of EC Chair, Deputies to be done \u2018in-camera\u2019 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/19\/impeachment-of-ec-chair-deputies-to-be-done-in-camera\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Impeachment of EC Chair, Deputies to be done \u2018in-camera\u2019 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"General News of Tuesday, 19 December 2017 Source: 3news.com 2017-12-19 Charlotte Osei A Supreme Court judge has been appointed to preside over the committee to investigate the chairperson of Ghana\u2019s Electoral Commission, Charlotte Osei and her two deputies. 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