Accra, July 19, 2017//-Staff of Electoral Commission (EC), Ghana have petitioned President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to as a matter of urgency institute a full-scale probe into various mismanagement allegations leveled against the Chairperson of EC, Charlotte Osei.
The staff alleged in the petition cited by African Eye Report that Mrs Osei’s decision to abrogate a contract awarded to Superlock Technologies Limited (STL), a company contracted to supply and manage Biometric Voter Registration machines (BVRs) and the Biometric Voter Devices (BVDs), as well as her directive for the payment of $76,000 to IT firm, Dream Oval, were fraudulent.
A paragraph in the petition signed by Counsel for the staff, Maxwell Opoku-Agyemang, and addressed to President Nana Akufo-Addo, read: “The Commission signed a contract with Super Tech (STL) Limited on the premise of that Voter Registration Exercise was going to be electoral area based. Upon assumption of office as Chairperson of the Commission, Mrs. Charlotte Osei unilaterally abrogated the said contract without recourse to the same Commission that approved the earlier version”.
“She single-handedly renegotiated the contract with the vendor without the involvement of the members of the Commission, not even the deputies. She then awarded the contract to the tune of $21,999,592 without going through tender contrary to the Public Procurement Act. The Chairperson then re-awarded these contracts without approval from the Commission”.
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African Eye Report
