Jean Mensa \u2013 EC Chairperson<\/strong><\/p>\nThe
\nElectoral Commission (EC) has upgraded its data system as part of an
\noverhauling exercise of the elections management body, the Chairperson of the
\ncommission, Mrs. Jean Mensa, has announced.<\/p>\n
Mrs.
\nMensa said this when she called on President Akufo-Addo as part of an ongoing
\nmeeting with stakeholders of the electoral system. <\/p>\n
She
\nsaid the ongoing overhauling of the commission had been necessitated by the
\nnon-functioning of some key departments and obsolete systems. <\/p>\n
Throwing
\nmore light on the new technology, she recalled how the EC last year invited an
\nEuropean Union recommended biometric consultant from Canada, whom she said spent\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 10 days working on the
\nsubject.<\/p>\n
The
\nview of the consultant, she said, was since technology is an evolving
\nphenomenon there was the need to respond to the reality. <\/p>\n
According
\nto her, the consultant recommended a modern user friendly technology \u2013 both
\nsoftware and hardware \u2013 that would cost less than what the EC used to pay to a
\nforeign vendor for a similar exercise.<\/p>\n
Continuing,
\nshe indicated that the new software would cost between $30 million and $56 million,
\nwhich she said was an upgrade.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt
\nwas just to upgrade a data centre and it entails changing batteries here and
\nthere, among other things,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
Biggest Challenge<\/strong><\/p>\nThe
\nbiggest challenge that confronted EC new managers since assuming office was the
\neffect of the very weak state of the commission, she pointed out.<\/p>\n
The
\nEC, in the state she took over, was an institution \u201cnot founded on rules; it
\nwas not founded on administrative policies and it didn\u2019t have a governance
\nframework.\u201d<\/p>\n
According
\nto her, \u201cWe came to office and what we found was that we do not even have a
\nsingle policy to guide procurement, to guide finance, to guide HR, to guide
\nadministration; nothing existed.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo
\nin a nutshell, the commission existed as some sort of an election machine and
\nover the year we\u2019ve spent quite a lot of effort trying to pluck the loopholes
\nto the best of our knowledge and to the best of our ability; it\u2019s been run as a
\nfree for all sort of institution to date\u2026you\u2019d find staff who have been in the
\nsame for 15-17 years without promotion,\u201d he noted with worry.<\/p>\n
KPMG Audit<\/strong><\/p>\nSince
\nassuming office, she said \u201cwe\u2019ve tried to the best of our ability to come up
\nwith some policies and guidelines to structure and to regulate our operations.\u201d
\nKPMG is working on an institutional assessment for the commission, she added.<\/p>\n
Delight <\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cWe
\nare pleased to note that we\u2019ve done all the promotions; we\u2019ve gone around the
\ncountry; we\u2019ve undertaken promotions and there is boost in morale currently
\nwithin the staff,\u201d she disclosed. <\/p>\n
Mrs.
\nMensa said \u201ccurrently, we have a clear direction of the institution \u2026 what each
\ndepartment is meant to do; so we have a governing framework of a sort that
\nregulates our activities.\u201d<\/p>\n
Legal Department<\/strong><\/p>\nThe
\nEC, she said, does not have standard departments such as legal. The existing
\nones are weak and in some such as the procurement there are only a few staff
\nmembers. \u201cYou go into procurement; if you look at the level of our procurement,
\nrunning into millions of cedis, we just had a two-member staff\u2026so we are
\nrecruiting with the assistance of KPMG, setting up a Legal Department, a Public
\nAffairs Department among others and basically strengthening capacity, bringing
\non board new staff in the area of IT.\u201d <\/p>\n
New EC<\/strong><\/p>\nShe told the President that the EC under her and her commissioners is robust and ready to take on the assignments required of it. <\/p>\n
By Charles Takyi-Boadu, Presidential Correspondent<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jean Mensa \u2013 EC Chairperson The Electoral Commission (EC) has upgraded its data system as part of an overhauling exercise of the elections management body, the Chairperson of the commission, Mrs. Jean Mensa, has announced. Mrs. Mensa said this when she called on President Akufo-Addo as part of an ongoing meeting with stakeholders of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":705414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"\n
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