By William
Yaw Owusu
Wednesday
March 21, 2018
The Chief Executive Officer of the Public
Procurement Authority (PPA) has reportedly been summoned to appear before the
committee set up by the Chief Justice to investigate the Chairperson of the Electoral
Commission (EC), Charlotte Osei, and her two deputies for abuse of office and
conflict of interest.
Agyenim Boateng Agyei is being subpoenaed under High
Court (Civil Procedure) Rules 2004, (C.I. 47) Order 38 Rule 10, at the instance
of the EC staff who are accusing the EC boss of abuse of office and other
charges.
The subpoena, reportedly prepared on March 12, 2018,
indicates that apart from his testimony likely to be heard today, the PPA boss
is expected to present some documents to the committee, being chaired by Justice
A.A. Benin of the Supreme Court.
Previous
Subpoena
It is not the first time a subpoena is being issued
in the course of the committee’s work.
Last month a non-EC staff, Emmanuel Senyo, who has
filed a counter petition regarding the impeachment of Mrs. Charlotte Osei’s two
deputies - Amadu Sulley, in-charge of Operations and Georgina Opoku-Amankwa,
for Corporate Services - currently on
interdiction - caused a subpoena to be issued against treasurers of political
parties.
Sources claimed that Emmanuel Senyo’s subpoena was
in connection with the case of Amadu Sulley, whom he is alleging pocketed money
from the political parties to the detriment of the commission.
EC
Finance Director
Apart from treasurers of the political parties, Dr. Joseph
Kweku Asamoah, also reportedly subpoenaed, the EC Director of Finance, who is
currently on interdiction on the orders of Ms Charlotte Osei in the matter of
the EC Endowment Fund, for its staff being investigated by the EOCO.
Mrs. Charlotte Osei was also subpoenaed by the
counter-petitioner.
According to sources NDC Director of Elections,
Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, was also subpoenaed but after a while the rest who were
all treasurers from the various political parties claimed that they were not
provided with any information as to what they were to testify about.
The committee notwithstanding, was of the view that
the witnesses, being public officers, needed to assist the ongoing probe that
could lead to the impeachment of the EC bosses and therefore, ordered the
counter-petitioner’s lawyer to meet the witnesses and prepare a witness
statement for each of them (witnesses), including Mrs. Charlotte Osei.
Original
Petition
The whole action was triggered by a petition sent to
the presidency by Lawyer Maxwell Opoku-Agyemang, who was acting on behalf of
some unnamed staff of the commission, who were seeking to trigger impeachment
proceedings against Mrs. Charlotte Osei.
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