{"id":1067610,"date":"2022-04-26T15:16:29","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T15:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/26\/gja-elections-committee-to-meet-next-week-over-edac-report\/"},"modified":"2022-04-26T15:16:29","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T15:16:29","slug":"gja-elections-committee-to-meet-next-week-over-edac-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/26\/gja-elections-committee-to-meet-next-week-over-edac-report\/","title":{"rendered":"GJA Elections Committee to meet next week over EDAC Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Accra, April 26, GNA- The Elections Committee of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) will meet next week to take a decision on the report by GJA\u2019s Elections Dispute Adjudication Committee (EDAC) on the conduct of the Association\u2019s elections.<\/p>\n
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EDAC, in its report released on Monday, April 25, 2022, directed the GJA\u2019s Elections Committee to take urgent steps to initiate processes for the successful conduct of the Association\u2019s elections by Thursday, June 30, 2022.<\/div>\n
\u201cThe GJA elections and formal Handing-Over processes shall take place by Thursday, the 30th of June 2022,\u201d the Committee directed after concluding its work on the four petitions against the Elections Supervisory Committee (ESC).<\/div>\n
In an interview with the Ghana News Agency, Mr Osei Kwadwo Adow, the Chairman of GJA\u2019s Elections Committee, said the Committee would meet next week to decide on the way forward.<\/div>\n
\u201cI just had the report. I am on my way to a national assignment and I will return on Thursday. When I return, my Committee will meet and then we will look at the Report and look at the action points in it and then we proceed from there,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n
GJA\u2019s elections have been embroiled in fierce disagreements and controversies over the Association\u2019s electoral register and other pressing issues, leading to continuous postponement of the elections from 2020 to 2021 and now, 2022.<\/div>\n
Last year, four aspirants of the 2021 GJA election, namely Messrs Kofi Yeboah, Albert, Kwabena Dwumfour, Gayheart Mensah, and Dave Agbenu petitioned the EDAC over what they described as irregularities in the electoral processes.<\/div>\n
In their petition, the four aspirants took issue with the nomination processes and election matters; the determination of a credible GJA voters register, especially the eligibility of members to vote and issues around mandates and authority of key stakeholders in the election processes, the Elections Committee, the GJA Secretariat and the Elections Supervisory Committee.<\/div>\n
The petitioners also challenged the mandates and authority of an adhoc body created to facilitate the transitional processes of the Association in the wake of the legal suit against the National Executive and others by Ms Caroline Boateng, a GJA member.<\/div>\n
In its Report, the EDAC found that the GJA\u2019s Constitution was \u201cseverely breached\u201d leading to adverse consequences and the current stalemate.<\/div>\n
\u201cThere was a lack of clarity in the determination of eligible voters for the next GJA elections. Some were due to challenges against persons whose membership status was unclear. Others were challenged on grounds of non-payment of dues whether as exempted parties or not,\u201d it said.<\/div>\n
The Committee also found that the creation of the Elections Supervisory Committee (ESC) and its mandate lacked clarity and contravened the provisions of the GJA constitution.<\/div>\n
\u201cThere is a lacuna in the effective management of transitional processes and provisions to guide ‘interim’ situations, especially during crises and election periods of the Association,\u201d the Committee said.<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Accra, April 26, GNA- The Elections Committee of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) will meet next week to take a decision on the report by GJA\u2019s Elections Dispute Adjudication Committee (EDAC) on the conduct of the Association\u2019s elections. EDAC, in its report released on Monday, April 25, 2022, directed the GJA\u2019s Elections Committee to take […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1067612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[1309,10222,5906,10223,1156,1584,602],"class_list":["post-1067610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-committee","tag-edac","tag-elections","tag-gja","tag-meet","tag-report","tag-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1067610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1067610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1067610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1067610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}