Three Ghanaian citizens have petitioned Parliament to force its hands to start impeachment proceedings against President Akufo Addo over the damning allegations of staging an armed robbery attack on his Canada-based lesbian lover, Evelyn Aido, aka Serwaa Broni.
Serwaa Broni in an explosive interview granted to the US-based Ghanaian journalist, Kevin Taylor claimed she had been a lover of President Akufo Addo and has pictures and video recordings of the Ghanaian President engaging in oral sex with her and that when the President realised that such damaging images exist, had lured Serwaa Broni to Ghana and coyly ordered dirty National Security operatives to pose as armed robbers and attack the lady with the aim of capturing the incriminating materials.
The three petitioners, Issifu Seidu Kudus Gbeadese, Elikem Kotoko and Stephen Kwabena Attuh, in their petition to Parliament dated April 21, 2021, insist that Serwaa Broni’s allegations, if proven to be true, would amount to “human rights abuse, abuse of office, exposing the security of Ghana to external threat…” as well as “…dragging the name of the high office of President into disrepute”.
The three petitioners are relying on Article 41 (a), (b) and (f) of the 1992 Constitution of the Republic of Ghana to argue their case for an impeachment of the Ghanaian President.
According to the petitioners, Serwaa Broni’s allegations and backing evidence were sufficient grounds for the invocation of Article 69(1) of the Constitution, 1992.
Already, the Minority in Parliament had demanded recordings of Serwaa Broni’s explosive interview with Kevin Taylor’s “Loud Silence TV” and other materials for scrutiny and further action that critics surmise borders on an impeachment move.
“…If proven to be true, [the sex scandal] raise grave charges of abuse of office, human right violations and conduct which bring the high office of President of Ghana into disrepute,” reads a statement released by the Minority this week.
In the interview, Serwaa Broni who is currently in a full-blown lesbian relationship in Canada, confirms Akufo-Addo and herself made sex videos and took pornographic photographs in 2019.
According to Serwaa Broni, in the build-up to the 2020 elections, the President was afraid the dirty videos might be released and so used some personnel of National Security goons to stage an armed robbery hit on her at Dawhenya in an attempt to recover the videos.
President Akufo-Addo, she confirms with text messages, has since admitted to the armed robbery hit on her and has offered to pay her off to shut up.
Meanwhile, Serwaa Broni also reveals that the president has a whole squad that cleans after him as he philanders about and that the so-called “cleaning squad” has paid off many young girls with sex videos with the president to shut them up.
She revealed how after the rogue national security operatives had unsuccessfully attacked her for the evidence on her, they launched an invasion of the offices of the lawyers handling her case.
Critics have said that the President’s conduct in the damning revelations is not only reprobate but criminal as well and constitutes enough grounds to impeach him from office.
In Ghana, an impeachment proceeding against a sitting President is almost an unrealistic uphill task due to the influence-peddling and nepotism plaguing the governance structures of the country.
Normally, when an impeachment proceeding is initiated via a petition, there must be a one-third signing of a notice for the purpose of the impeachment.
This can be achieved as Ghana’s Parliament is currently a hung one with both the opposition and governing parties having 137 MPs apiece.
The uphill task immediately starts after that, because that notice would have to go to the Chief Justice who would be required to convene a tribunal to determine the prima facie case for the impeachment proceedings. The Chief Justice who is an appointee of the current President is supposed to appoint at least four Supreme Court judges to the Tribunal.
Incidentally, the majority of the judges on the Supreme Court Bench are appointed by President Akufo Addo and together with the Chief Justice have been accused of blatant partisanship in their adjudication of cases in the country.
Indeed, the National Security Minister, Albert Kan-Dapaah recently reiterated this accusation.
The last hurdle the impeachment proceeding would face would be in the legislative chamber, where a vote of about two-thirds of Parliamentarians are required to get the impeachment through.
The problem is that the Ghanaian Parliament had always been a rubber stamp for their political orientations and has always voted along partisan lines. As much as the 137 MPs from the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) may want to impeach the President, they will need at least 47 MPs from the ruling government’s side to constitute the 183 MPs needed to impeach the President.