Pages In Petition To Remove Jean Mensah As EC Boss Go Missing

A petition to President Akufo-Addo to remove controversial Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Jean Adukwei Mensah, from office has suffered strange mutilation.

According to one of the lead petitioners, Mr. Oliver Barker-Vormawor, four pages containing the most critical arguments of the petitioners were no longer in the petition by the time the president had forwarded the petition to the Chief Justice in line with due process.

In a Facebook post, Mr. Barker-Vormawor who doubles as a convenor of the FixTheCountry pressure group, the Chief Justice called the petitioners to inform them of the strange dismemberments.

“We have just been informed by the Office of the Chief Justice that the pages 9, 10, 11 and 12, which contain our most critical arguments, were missing from the petition that was received from the Presidency. We acknowledge the notice from the Office of the Chief Justice and are grateful for the opportunity to supply the missing pages,” he wrote.

The petition had been filed by pressure group, #FixTheCountry on 10th January 2021, on grounds of the disenfranchisement of the people of Santrokofi, Akpafu, Lolobi and Likpe in the 2020 elections.

Through the machinations of the EC, voters there had not been allowed to vote in the presidential and parliamentary elections.

And because the EC failed to create a constituency for them, the people of the so-called SALL currently do not have representatives in the 8th Parliament.

“The petitioners assert that the actions of the impugned officials if considered in context and in light of their preceding and subsequent conduct, meets the threshold of stated misbehaviour and, or incompetence as required under Article 146 of the 1992 Constitution for the removal of these officials,” the petition said.

Though Mr. Barker-Vormawor is the lead petitioner, the group includes academics, lawyers and Ghanaians in the diaspora.

However, nothing can explain the strange mutilation of the petition from the Jubilee House and Why.

“We printed a duplicate copy of the petition, which was stamped at the Presidency. We just checked. The copy we have contains the missing pages. We have no idea what went wrong with the master copy. Anyway, we will be sending a new copy to the Chief Justice tomorrow,” he added

Later on Thursday afternoon, Mr. Barker-Vormawor would post a heavily bound petition indicating that his group resorted to the extreme measure because any more attempt to spirit away some pages in the petition would be difficult and instantly obvious.