EC acting as an appointee not an independent state body-Lawyer Tamakloe
4th February 2019
Lawyer Godwin Edudzi Tamakloe, a Private legal Practitioner, has stated that, the Electoral Commissioner (EC), Mrs Jean Mensa does not perceive herself as an independent body working fr the benefit of the country but rather an appointee.
Mr Tamakoe who is also a member of the communications team f the largest opposition party the National Democratic Congress (NDC) while speaking on Accra based radio station Radio Gold said, “the observation made by the Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO) that some known uniformed National Security operatives attacked a police officer on duty for alerting them to move away from the polling officials in comparison with DCOP Alex Mensah, Director-General in charge of operations saying he has no idea who the masked men in the uniform were means that the masked men who were deployed are not part of the lawfully established security apparatus of this Republic”.
He was speaking on the erupting issues that characterized the Ayawaso West Wuogon Constituency by-election that took place on Thursday January 31 2019 following the demise of former Member of Parliament Emmanuel Kreremanteng Agyarko.
Mr Tamakloe added while speaking on the panel discussion “It is important that this observation by CODEO collaborate exactly what the NDC has stated relating to the level of violence. So the claim by the EC Chairperson who today see herself as an appointee of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo rather than the Head of a constitutionally created independent body posits that there was no violence in the election is regrettable”.
He continued by saying, “laws of this country prevents anybody from raising any police force or military force or armed force without an act of Parliament. So quite clearly the involvement of these terror groups associated with the NPP for the sole purpose of intimidating, assaulting and brutalising persons going about their lawful constitutional duty of casting their votes can only be subversion on the 1992 Constitution”.