The Member of Parliament for Guan Constituency, Fred Kwesi Agbenyo, has hinted of plans to petition President John Dramani Mahama for the elimination of Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC) Jean Mensa.
The resolution in response to the Guan MP stems from his perception that the Chairperson of Ghana’s electoral governing physique overstepped her authority when she issued a letter to barre the individuals of Santrokofi Akpafu, Likpe and Lolobi (SALL) from taking part within the 2020 Parliamentary elections.
“I am going to petition the president (John Dramani Mahama) to ask the Chairperson of the electoral commission (Jean Mensa) to vacate her position because her responsibility is to register Ghanaians who are 18 years and above and to make sure that elections are conducted, give opportunity to everybody to take part in an election”
The EC Chairperson’s resolution on the time, was criticized by many together with the then flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, who believed that the judiciary performed half in denying the individuals of Santrokofi, Akpafu, Lolobi, and Likpe (SALL) of parliamentary illustration.
In response, the EC in a press release earlier than the 2024 common elections, clarified that the exclusion of voters in SALL from taking part within the parliamentary elections on December 7, 2020, wasn’t a deliberate disenfranchisement as being claimed by some however was unable to create the Guan constituency, which now covers SALL, because of the lateness of requests to take action and likewise as a result of parliament was in recess on the time.
But the MP for the newly created constituency Fred Kwesi Agbenyo talking on Metro TV’s News and Current Affairs Program Inside Pages on Saturday January 25, 2025, insisted that the EC Chairperson’s main duty is to register eligible Ghanaians and guarantee free and honest elections. He defined that Jean Mensa’s actions contravene the 1992 Constitution and demanded that she be held accountable.
“I don’t know the law that is in the 1992 constitution for the EC chairperson to just issue a letter and tell a group of people that you won’t participate in an election and she did that. So we are going to invoke all these and make sure that she pays for these”
“I believe she has questions to answer” the primary time member of parliament confused.