By William
Yaw Owusu
Friday July
06, 2018
It has emerged that the sacked Electoral Commission
(EC) chairperson, Charlotte Osei, ordered letterheads for the commission at the
cost of GH¢131,250.
The letterheads, which were customized, formed part
of the commission’s rebranding exercise, which also saw the changing of the
EC’s logo.
The contractor, Innolink Limited, was tasked to
print letterheads for EC’s head office with the new logo at the cost of
GH¢87,500 for 100 reams; making it GH¢875 per unit cost, and another set of 50
reams also at the unit cost of GH¢875 totalling GH¢43,750.
The order to print the letterhead was not part of
the petition that saw her impeachment and subsequent removal from office along
with her two deputies.
Bizarrely, the names
of all the commissioners were embossed on the customized letterheads although
members of the commission could go on retirement.
In the event that a
member of the commission retires, it would mean that new letterheads would have
to be procured because the incoming commissioner’s name would have to be embossed
on it.
Recently, one of the
commissioners whose name was embossed on the letterhead went on retirement
implying that the EC, after spending the whooping amount of money, would have
to change the whole letterhead to incorporate the incoming ones.
The contract to
print the letterheads with new logo was awarded to a private firm Innolink
Limited in a letter from the commission on May 4, 2016 signed by Mrs. Charlotte
Osei.
“We refer to your quotations
in the tender GR/ECGH/GD/0D35/2016 for the printing of EC letterheads with new
logo. We wish to inform you that your quotation of GH¢875.00 per ream for both
the head office letterheads and that of the regions, exclusive of VAT and NHIL,
has been accepted,” the letter said.
The Chief Justice’s committee, which recommended the
sacking of the three EC bosses, was presided over by Justice Anthony Alfred
Benin of the Supreme Court, with Justices Samuel K. Marful-Sau and Justice
Agnes Dodzie, both of the Appeal Court, as well as Welbeck Abrah Appiah, former
Chief Executive of the Ghana Premier League Board (PLB) and Rose
Karikari-Annan, an astute banker and former Executive Secretary of Ghana
Employers Association, as members.
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