EC safeguards must check partisan bias among commissioners – Osae-Kwapong

“The second point for me then becomes this idea of the open partisan being appointed to an independent constitutional body versus the person who could be just as partisan but is more private about his or her partisanship.”CDD-Ghana Fellow, Dr John Osae-Kwapong, has questioned whether internal safeguards at the Electoral Commission (EC) can prevent a partisan commissioner from advancing a political party’s interests.“It appears that we have a certain level of discomfort in knowing that somebody is openly partisan and being sent to an independent constitutional body.”