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EC boss failed to declare assets when she assumed office – CHRAJ

The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice has found the Electoral Commission chairperson, Jean Mensa guilty of failing to declare her assets when she assumed office as required by law. The Alliance for Social Equity and Accountability (ASEPA) petitioned the Commission to investigate Jean Mensa for not disclosing her assets in accordance with Article 286 of the Constitution. CHRAJ’s ...

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Don’t participate in EC’s new registration exercise – Ofosu-Ampofo tells Ghanaians

The Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), MrSamuel Ofosu-Ampofo has charged members of the party to reject the call to participate in the Electoral Commission’s (EC) mass voters registration exercise scheduled to begin on June 30, 2020. Mr Ofosu-Ampofo said the party was against the compilation of the new voters’ register because the atmosphere in the country was not ...

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MoFA cautions vegetable farmers against misuse of agro-chemicals

The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) has cautioned farmers against the misuse of agro-chemicals on vegetables to protect themselves and consumers from food poisoning. Mr Michael Kumah, the Ahafo Regional Plant and Protection Officer of the Plant Protection Research Services Directorate (PPRSD) of the MoFA advised vegetable farmers to check labels of agro-chemicals when they buy and applied them ...

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110,000 businesses apply for GH¢600m stimulus package

The Government of Ghana CAP Business Support Scheme (CAP BuSS) has received over 170,000 successful registrations on the online portal, with about 65 per cent of this number successfully completing applications. In a statement issued by the National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI), Executive Director of NBSSI, Mrs Kosi Yankey-Ayeh said due diligence on the successful applications was on-going ...

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Rejecting birth cert while accepting Ghana card, passport is not double standards – MP

Parliament by a majority decision, 106 – 92 has approved the recommendation of the Subsidiary Legislation Committee to adopt its report on the Constitutional Instrument (C.I. 126). The C.I. 126 makes the Ghana Card and the Ghanaian passport the only legal identification documents for registering people in the new biometric voters’ register. Some Ghanaians have, however, accused the Electoral Commission ...

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What is EC’s crime?

Elections are continuous processes that involve a complex interplay of activities that are technical in nature but carry deep political and legal implications. The quality of an election management body’s (EMB) preparation for an election is crucial to the overall success of the process. Ghana goes to the polls on December 7, 2020, to elect a president and 275 lawmakers. ...

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KTU lecturer dissociates from letter to EC

A lecturer of the Koforidua Technical University (KTU), Dr Benjamin Kwofie, has written to the Vice Chancellor to deny knowledge of a letter written by some 101 lecturers to the Chair of the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC), asking her to tread cautiously in the decision to compile a new register for the December 7 elections. According to Dr Kwofie, he ...

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EC justifies non-use of existing voters ID cards

The Electoral Commission (EC) has provided the legal justification for refusing to accept the existing voters’ identification card as part of identification for the upcoming registration exercise. In a 31-paged legal arguments filed at the Supreme Court, the EC says it had the sole constitutional responsibility to compile voters register and to determine how that compilation would be effected and ...

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