Executive Director of IMANI Center for Policy and Education, , has formally petitioned the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) to investigate the (EC) of Ghana for what he describes as "constitutional, statutory, and administrative breaches" in connection with the controversial disposal of electoral equipment as scrap.
In a petition to CHRAJ on Tuesday, May 6, 2025, and signed by , IMANI argued that the EC has failed in its duty to manage state assets prudently, especially amid Ghana's ongoing economic crisis. "This morning, I directed that IMANI files a petition to the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice to investigate the of Ghana for constitutional, statutory, and administrative breaches in respect of its conduct in the infamous 'firesale of electoral equipment for scrap' scandal. "At a time when the nation cannot service its debts and is in the midst of a tight IMF-supervised fiscal regime, such egregious conduct cannot be tolerated," it noted.
IMANI further argued that the premature retirement and disposal of tens of thousands of laptops, fingerprint verifiers, scanners, printers, and digital cameras were driven by motives that conflict with the EC's legal responsibilities. "We lamented that the EC's conduct...
has been motivated by a conflict between its duties under various laws to judiciously apply the resources of this country for the good of the citizenry, on the one hand, and its tendency to take decisions favourable to various commercial vendors and transactors, on the other hand. "We stated our belief that the EC's most recent conduct has been necessitated by a need to curtail transparency and accountability, and thus was motivated by a collective conflict of interest and potential corruption," it stated.
