Outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Ghana, Robert P. Jackson, has described the sacked Chairperson of Ghana’s Electoral Commission (EC), Mrs Charlotte Osei, as one of the most competent persons he has ever met despite her dismissal for “incompetence” and procurement breaches.
President Nana Akufo-Addo removed Mrs Charlotte Osei from office together with her two deputies: Georgina Opoku Amankwah and Amadu Sulley, based on a recommendation from a committee set up by the Chief Justice.
Reacting to Mrs Osei’s dismissal on World Affairs on Class91.3FM on Friday, 13 July 2018, Mr Jackson defended the competence of the former EC chair.
Last year, the U.S. Embassy honoured Mrs Osei with the 2017 Women of Courage Award which is given annually to women around the world who have shown leadership, courage, and willingness to sacrifice for others, especially in promoting women’s rights.
Mr Jackson told show host Dr Etse Sikanku that: “I would give her the award as Woman of Courage again today if we were to do it over. I still believe that she and her fellow commissioners conducted the fairest, most transparent election I have ever personally witnessed. It was a tremendous success.
“I do not know if she violated any laws, I understand from what I’ve heard and read that the decision she made to rebuild the website during the election after it was hacked may have been in contravention of Ghana’s procurement laws but I also understand that the time was of the essence, so, I think she, from what I know, acted on what she felt was the right thing to do at the time.
“I don’t want to get into a debate about whether she was rightly impeached or not, I think that is for the court to decide, but, I have been very troubled about the accusation that she is incompetent, some people have used that word, but Charlotte Osei is one of the most competent people I have ever met.”
In 2017, a five-member committee was set up by Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo to investigate alleged acts of corruption involving Mrs Osei and her two Deputies.
Some staff of the EC petitioned Nana Akufo-Addo to remove Mrs Osei from office over allegations of fraud and financial malfeasance as well as abuse of office.
Mrs Osei also counter-alleged corruption against her deputies insisting that she has done nothing wrong and only being hounded out because she is fighting internal graft.
The president, in accordance with the constitution, forwarded the petition to the Chief Justice to look into the matter.
The committee, after its work, recommended that Mrs Osei and her deputies be removed from office.
Source: classfmonline.com
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So your mom is walking in Accra central and her bag is snatched by some criminal, it means your mom is incompetent, abi.
@fiifi gafly. You are surely daft. Even Super powers such as America, China and Russia have their cyber space hacked. Are you that ediot, how does hacking of your website become a basis for incompetence! It's amazing how some people just decide to be ***barred word*** and foolllish at the same time.
Following the election of Donald Trump in November 2016, it's difficult to determine if a US government official understands that word "competent" lately. If she was competent, her website would not have been hacked in the first place. It's called corporate risk analysis!
Your mom warmed his bed first, that's why you are a ***barred word***.
Who knows? She may have warmed his bed?
I would be surprised that like hannah tetteh and Henrietta brew she will get an international appointment which would far better than the job of nana addo. Hannah tetteh is now a director general at the UN, can imagine that? But in Ghana she was called names. Henrietta brew is now a judge at international court of justice. All these persons were branded in competent because they worked for John mahama. She was the same lawyer who defended Ghana to win the oil boundary case. God will judge nana addo and his cohorts.
If a wise white man is describing EC boss as most competent who are you that a common weed smoker and his cohorts can say otherwise. The irony of her sacking is that, the same so called incompetent EC boss supervised an election that elected the dwarf. Therefore the dwarf probably is an incompetent president too. Nana and barwumia are so ediotic. Voter identification card brought you to power but now the same card is rejected for the NATIONAL IDENTIFICATION CARD. What type of evil persons are now in charge of Ghana. It was wrong for Ibrahim mahama to be given government equipment to distill the ordor river but it's right for a party chairman contestant to buy 275 buses for party when the whole Ghana has on 55 ambulances. Is this not gimi as KWAW KESE AND A PLUS WOULD SAY.
Npp should not forget that their term of office is just four and is about to end and am telling them they should change their ways because what you sow is what you reap.
But the President of Ghana says the woman is not fit for the EC job due to how the will steal 2020 elections. But Ghanaian will vote out NPP if the president like he should appoints her wife for the EC job
People will blackmail and call her all sorts of names but her redeemer liveth