{"id":463072,"date":"2018-02-09T17:09:03","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T17:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/09\/publish-assets-accounts-of-political-parties-court-orders-ec\/"},"modified":"2018-02-09T17:09:03","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T17:09:03","slug":"publish-assets-accounts-of-political-parties-court-orders-ec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/09\/publish-assets-accounts-of-political-parties-court-orders-ec\/","title":{"rendered":"Publish assets, accounts of political parties \u2013 Court orders 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>kasapafmonline.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\/2018\/02\/57646967.295.jpg\" alt=\"Commiss21\" title=\"Commiss21\" width=\"295\" height=\"208\" \/><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=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1518196143_929_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">An Accra Human Rights Court has ordered the Electoral Commission(EC) to publish all assets and audited statements of accounts of political parties in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>This was contained in a judgment in a suit filed by private citizen Lolan Ekow Sagoe-Moses and Pressure group, Citizen Ghana Movement (CGM).<\/p>\n<p>The two petitioners prayed the court to compel the EC to enforce the provisions of the law that requires all political parties to submit their annual financial statement to the Commission.<\/p>\n<p><b>Judgement<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Delivering his judgment, the Presiding Judge Justice Anthony Yeboah, charged the Commission to comply with the directive by publishing a demand notice to all political parties to take immediate steps to comply with the law within six-month from Friday, February 9, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Starr News\u2019 Court Correspondent, Wilberforce Asare, Kofi Bentil, counsel for CGM said; \u201cFrom now, to the six months period we are entitled to what they have and if even they don\u2019t give us anything at all, at the end of the six months we are entitled to every political parties statement of accounts and assets as provided for in the constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 61 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: kasapafmonline.com 2018-02-09 Charlotte Osei An Accra Human Rights Court has ordered the Electoral Commission(EC) to publish all assets and audited statements of accounts of political parties in Ghana. 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