{"id":463035,"date":"2018-02-09T14:59:31","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T14:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/09\/publish-assets-accounts-of-parties-court-to-ec\/"},"modified":"2018-02-09T14:59:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T14:59:31","slug":"publish-assets-accounts-of-parties-court-to-ec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/09\/publish-assets-accounts-of-parties-court-to-ec\/","title":{"rendered":"Publish assets, accounts of parties \u2013 Court to EC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Friday,  9 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>classfmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-09<\/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\/68719182.295.jpg\" alt=\"Charlotte Oseinew\" title=\"Charlotte Oseinew\" width=\"295\" height=\"162\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>EC chairperson, 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\/2018\/02\/1518188371_396_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> A Human Rights Court has ordered the Electoral Commission to publish all assets and audited account statements of all political parties in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>The court order is the culmination of a suit filed by private citizen, Lolan Ekow Sagoe-Moses, and pressure group Citizens Ghana Movement (CGM).<\/p>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s Political Parties Act 574 (section 21), provide that political parties shall within six months from December 31 of each year, file with the Commission: a return in the form specified by the Commission indicating \u2013 the state of its accounts, the sources of its funds, membership dues paid and contributions in cash or kind.<\/p>\n<p>The suit by the plaintiffs was to have the court make the EC enforce that law as a way of \u201cpushing for more transparency in the body politic of Ghana.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Justice Anthony Yeboah, in his ruling, directed the election management body to publish a demand notice to all political parties to comply with the law within six calendar months from Friday, 9 February.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 55 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Friday, 9 February 2018 Source: classfmonline.com 2018-02-09 EC chairperson, Charlotte Osei A Human Rights Court has ordered the Electoral Commission to publish all assets and audited account statements of all political parties in Ghana. 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