Prof. Gyampo slams Akufo-Addo over request for CVs from EC, SOEs

A Political Science lecturer at the University of Ghana, Professor Ransford Gyampo, is questioning an order by President Akufo-Addo directing senior management of SOEs and the Electoral Commission (EC) to submit their Curriculum Vitae (CVs) for review.

Professor Gyampo argues that the EC must be allowed to operate as the independent body that the Constitution mandates it to be.

Speaking on Eyewitness News on Citi FM, Ransford Gyampo said the Commission is protected by the 1992 Constitution to defy the President’s directive.

“The Commission is an independent commission, and it is clothed with the necessary legalities to defer orders from the executive president that attempts to undermine the independence of the Commission.”

These are internal matters that the Commission has internal arrangements to handle

It is not the mandate of the president to be appointing directors for the Electoral Commission

The president is not the one to be appointing directors to the Commission, so why does he want to exert his tentacles of political ‘king-kongism’ to independent commissions?”