Accra, Ghana, July 3, 2018//-A private citizen has dragged the Attorney General, Gloria Akuffo, to the Supreme Court over the removal of the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Charlotte Osei, from office.
Fafali Nyonator wants the apex court to declare that the Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo, breached the Constitution and exceeded the limits of her powers by defining the scope of a committee of enquiry that probed a petition for the removal of Mrs. Osei.
The plaintiff also wants an order of perpetual injunction restraining President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo from appointing Mr Osei’s replacement until that position has become lawfully vacant “in accordance with proper processes as by law established.”
The EC Chairperson, Charlotte Osei and her two deputies, Amadu Sulley and Georgina Amankwah, were removed from office following findings of a Committee set up by the Chief Justice to probe petitions of corruption and abuse of office.
The former EC Chair, among other things, was found culpable of breaching procurement laws in the award of a contract to Dream Oval and engaging the legal services of law firm Sory@ Law.
The five reliefs being sought by Nyonator are published below
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