{"id":72306,"date":"2023-05-31T17:22:47","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T17:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/31\/presidency-has-no-business-requesting-for-cvs-of-senior-ec-officials\/"},"modified":"2023-05-31T17:22:47","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T17:22:47","slug":"presidency-has-no-business-requesting-for-cvs-of-senior-ec-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/31\/presidency-has-no-business-requesting-for-cvs-of-senior-ec-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidency has no business requesting for CVs of senior EC officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"458\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Gyampos-open-letter-to-Akufo-Addo-645x424-Copy-696x458.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Gyampos-open-letter-to-Akufo-Addo-645x424 (Copy)\"\/><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1526649226&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Political Scientist, Professor Ransford Gyampo, has slammed President Nana Akufo-Addo over a purported instruction from the presidency requesting the CVs of senior management members of the Electoral Commission (EC).<\/p>\n<p>Although the circular from the EC\u2019s Director of Human Resource to the head office and regional directors suggests that the instruction was not to the EC alone but other state agencies, the political science lecturer singled out the EC, and condemned the president\u2019s action.<\/p>\n<p>His stance was ostensibly due to the autonomy and the sensitive nature of that state institution, and how others might interpret that instruction or request.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Besides, the circular did not explain why the presidency requires that information from people who are already in employment.<\/p>\n<p>Without mincing words, Prof. Gyampo, while indirectly referencing some incidents that may have occurred under the tenure of President Akufo-Addo, said, \u201cthe history of Ghana\u2019s Fourth Republic show that you are currently the worse President in promoting the sanctity of the independence of the EC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy do you want to do this to an Independent Commission? It appears under your tenure, you are doing everything you can to decimate the independence of all independent institutions, but to what end?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the President\u2019s excesses have largely gone unchecked due to the lack of courageous people to call him to order.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cUnfortunately, there aren\u2019t courageous people around you to tell you to back off your attempts at annexing the Electoral Commission. Back in the days, Dan Botwe as General Secretary of the NPP could boldly tell President Kufuor in the face to back off his attempt to usurp the procurement powers of the Electoral Commission and the President had no choice than to listen,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He has, thus, urged President Akufo-Addo to quietly complete his term in office and leave without encroaching any further on the independent bodies of state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease leave office and leave the sanctity of our independent institutions intact. This is not a practice worth emulating or repeating, Sir. This demand is unnecessary and it\u2019s optics for the quest to deal with the independence deficit of the EC are bad,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Gyampo also called on the EC to be assertive in defending its independence from such executive encroachment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the Electoral Commission too must not be seen to be swallowing everything thrown to them by the President hook, line and sinker. As an independent Commission, it is backed by law to resist every attempt at subjugating the Commission under the Executive President,\u201d he concluded in his Facebook post on Tuesday, May 30, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Both the presidency and the EC are yet to comment on the development.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-05-30-at-7.25.14-PM-1-718x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Prof Gyampo slams Akufo-Addo over presidency's request for CVs of senior EC officials\" class=\"wp-image-10032317355\" title=\"Prof Gyampo slams Akufo-Addo over presidency's request for CVs of senior EC officials\"\/><\/figure>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"43H7mpQhK8w\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Promoting Education: Parents admonished to cooperate with teachers for quality education (30-05-23)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/43H7mpQhK8w?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Scientist, Professor Ransford Gyampo, has slammed President Nana Akufo-Addo over a purported instruction from the presidency requesting the CVs of senior management members of the Electoral Commission (EC). 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