POLITICS

Kwabena Mensah Woyome has described as depressing the continuous trial of his brother – Alfred Agbesi Woyome – over the GHc51.2million supposed judgment debt paid to him by the State. “What is happening to my brother is a sad thing,” bemoaned the MP for South Tongu on Morning Starr Wednesday July 26, 2017. According to him, his beleaguered brother duly ...

The leadership of parliament will later today, Wednesday, 26 July meet with Commissioners of the Electoral Commission to intervene in the ongoing fight between Chair Mrs Charlotte Osei and her two deputies, Class News’ parliamentary correspondent Ekow Annan has gathered. He said the meeting will come right after the EC boss finishes briefing the house about how much the election ...

Opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has sent notice to the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) that it will resist any attempt(s) to witch-hunt any appointee of former President John Dramani Mahama. The notice follows Monday’s raid (July 24, 2017) of the residence of the former Minister of Power, Dr. Kwabena Donkor, by some officials from the Criminal Investigative Department (CID) ...

A former Attorney General, Martin Amidu has suggested that the government’s efforts to create a special prosecutor’s will be a wasted venture if sections of the draft Bill currently before parliament are not removed. According to him, a clause in the bill which states that the Special Prosecutor must not investigate and prosecute corruption offences relating to the Public Procurement ...

Assin Central Member of Parliament (MP) has demanded the arrest of the Electoral Commissioner and all her two deputy commissioners. Kennedy Ohene Agyapong speaking on Adom TV’s Badwam Tuesday said the embattled commissioners must be arrested as part of efforts to causing further investigations into allegations of corruption at the EC which the commissioners are leveling against one another. “The ...

Chair of the Electoral Commission, Charlotte Osei, will Wednesday appear before Legislators to respond to questions about the heated internal wrangling at the elections management body. She will also brief the Parliamentarians on how funds generated from the replacement of voter ID cards and the sale of media accreditation cards ahead of 2016 elections were spent. Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, ...

President Akufo-Addo is expected to take a decision on the wrangling at the electoral commission following his arrival from France, where he was on a state visit. According to the Information Minister, Mustapha Hamid, the President will take a decision which is backed by the Constitution. The electoral commission has been fraught with controversies over the last one week with ...

A former Attorney-General, Martin Amidu, who is renowned for his fight against graft, thinks aspects of the Special Prosecutor’s bill undermine President Nana Akufo-Addo’s anti-corruption intentions. In his latest commentary on issues of public concern, Mr Amidu focused on the Bill that is currently being perused by Parliament, taking issue with a clause that he says may render the goal ...

Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, came into office promising to change the face of politics in Ghana and do right by the people who elected him. Six months after he took the oath of office on January 7, it is only fair that, we take a look at the plethora of promises he made and whether or not, any has so ...

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong has stated he feels vindicated following accusations by some unidentified staff of the Electoral Commission (EC) commission against the Chairperson Mrs. Charlotte Osei for dishing out contracts without recourse to the Public Procurement Act. According to him, corrupt practices clad in shady deals existed long before the ...