CHRAJ opens probe into IMANI's petition against EC equipment disposal practice
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It has thus requested that the petitioner furnish specific information about their allegations to assist with their investigation.
The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has opened a probe into a petition filed by IMANI Ghana against the disposal of electoral equipment by the Electoral Commission.
It has thus requested that the petitioner furnish specific information about their allegations to assist with their investigation.
On May 6, 2024, IMANI Ghana petitioned CHRAJ over the Electoral Commission’s handling of the nation’s scarce resources in the discharge of its duties, which it believes amounts to misappropriation, wastage, and misuse.
It noted that the EC’s conduct evinces a conflict between its duties to judiciously apply the nation’s resources and its tendency to make decisions favorable to various commercial vendors.
In a response letter dated May 27, 2024, and signed by the Commissioner, Joseph Whittal, CHRAJ is specifically demanding information on the number of BVDs and BVRs that the Electoral Commission procured in 2011, 2018, and 2019.
Also, it has requested the number of digital cameras in a BVR that could be old and components such as fingerprints, scanners, or laptops that were new and in perfect working order among the items auctioned.
Further to this, the Commission wants IMANI to provide the cost of thousands of BVRs and BVDs procured by the Electoral Commission in 2020.
Again, the letter makes a demand for the names and particulars of the EC, who put themselves in a conflict of interest situation in the assessment of the obsolescence of the BVMS legacy equipment, and, the vendors and consultants engaged by these officials.
