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The Minority in Parliament has demonstrated “hypocrisy” and “double standards” in their criticism of the raid by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service of former Power Minister Dr Kwabena Donkor’s home in connection with investigations into the controversial $510 Ameri deal. “I hate the hypocrisy, double standards and audacity of the Minority in Parliament to unlawfully ...

Joy News sources say the Chair of the Electoral Commission (EC) and her six deputies have been directed by Parliament to prepare a Constitutional Instrument that will guide their work. Parliament believes that the regulation, which will have a force of law, will be a permanent solution to the ongoing disagreement between the EC Chair, Mrs. Charlotte Osei, and two ...

Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Mrs. Charlotte Osei has cleared the air about some reported missing monies the commission generated from accreditation fees paid by journalists and funds for the replacement of Voter’s ID cards. The Electoral Commission, prior to the 2016 polls required that all media houses who sought coverage of the elections pay an amount of GHC 10 ...

Government will today Thursday, July 27, announce the implementation plan for its flagship policy- Free SHS. The absence of a clear road map on the rollout of the policy has generated various discussions especially on the qualification criteria for beneficiaries. President Akufo-Addo at his recent media encounter hinted that well-endowed schools would be required to reserve a percentage of admissions ...

In a last ditch effort to avoid the possibility of a jail term, Mawarko branch manager Jihad Chabaan standing trial for assaulting a caterer has secured an opportunity to settle out of court. “My client Marwako wants to settle this thing and put this matter behind us. We don’t want to continue this whole fighting in court”, counsel for Mr. ...

Effutu MP Alexander Afenyo Markins caused a stir in parliament after he subtly invited Charlotte Osei to explain a criminal allegation she has leveled against her deputy. Although the question time was limited to media accreditation fees allegedly unaccounted for, Afenyo Markin managed to sneak in a question relating to internal wranglings at the EC. Charlotte Osei has accused her ...

The board chairman of COCOBOD Hackman Owusu Agyemang has pledged to ensure the judgement delivered in his favour by an Accra High Court against Daily Post newspaper is executed to the letter. The court presided over by Justice Norvisi Aryine Tuesday ordered the newspaper to pay the former minister in the Kufuor administration GHc800, 000.00 for defamatory publications made against ...

The Minority leader Haruna Iddrisu has said the much anticipated meeting between the leadership of Parliament and commissioners of the Electoral Commission (EC) over the chaos that inundated the Electoral Management body is unnecessary. The meeting is expected to commence immediately after the EC boss finished briefing the House about how much the commission made from the controversial fees it ...

The Electoral Commission Chairperson says monies the Commission took from journalists for accreditation during last year’s elections, are intact. Charlotte Osei said the money estimated at over ¢2.5 million is sitting in the EC’s bank accounts at the GCB Bank. In her response to an urgent question filed over the failure of the Commission to capture the money in its ...

The number of media houses, both local and international that turned up to cover the 7 December 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections showed that the decision to charge practitioners for accreditation was not a bad practice, Mrs Charlotte Osei, Chair of the Electoral Commission (EC), has told parliament. Media houses were asked by the EC to pay an amount of ...