The suspended Chief Accountant at the Electoral Commission, Kwaku Agyei Larbi, has petitioned the Attorney General to recall him.
This he says will enable him to release an amount of GHc360,000 to the EC as recommended by the Chief Justice’s Committee which investigated the petition to remove the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Charlotte Osei and two of her deputies from office.
According to the Chief Accountant, the amount was kept in a safe on behalf of the Commission in his office.
Speaking to Citi News, his lawyer, John Jery Asiedu, said they will make the money available as soon as he is allowed back to work.“We are demanding action because under the circumstance, the recommendation is that my client, the Chief Accountant should make available to the Commission a GHc360, 000 that he admitted. EOCO has since July 2017 asked my client to be on leave to allow for investigations to go on. Now the investigations have been concluded. The investigations were concluded somewhere January 2018, and we’ve made several attempts to get him recalled from the leave but it has proved futile.
Now, his inability to access the office is the reason he can’t make the funds available to the commission. We have to get EOCO to revoke its directive asking us to proceed on leave so that we can resume work and make the funds available to the commission.”
Charlotte Osei removed
President Akufo-Addo on June 28, 2018 removed the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Charlotte Osei and her two deputies – Amadu Sulley and Georgina Opoku Amankwa – from office upon the recommendation of a committee set up by the Chief Justice, Justice Sophia Akuffo, pursuant to Article 146(4) of the Constitution, to investigate separate complaints brought by some Ghanaian citizens.
Charlotte Osei was accused of various procurement breaches, whiles the deputies were also found guilty of same offenses as well as financial malfeasance.
Source: citinewsroom.com
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Are we serious as a nation? This guy admitted to a committee of eminent judges that he has GH¢360,000.00 of the Commissions money in his custody and he is still holding onto that? Where are the so called security agencies? The money should have been retrieved the moment he finished his statement. The judges should have given a warrant get the money immediately and placed in a bank account. What a joke!!!!!!!!!!!
Only in Ghana !!!!!!!!
What happens if the EC accountant die today? Will the money rot in your office? This is a joke. The money is in a treasury bill but not in the office.
Hahahahaha I can't stop laughing. Ghana is full of comedians parading around as intellectuals and professionals. You are given money that belongs to a government institution ie the E.C. which in all intent and purposes should have been deposited in the bank account of the E.C. and yet you claim that you were told to hold it for safe keeping until further instructions and as a grown man and a supposed qualified accountant you went along with it. Today you and your semi literate lawyers are arguing in court that you should be given your job back so that you will give back the money you have been keeping in your safe. Wow I wonder if you and your lawyers have been taking a mixture of tramadol and apio. From what you have stated it means that this practice is common in that for the past years money meant for the E.C. account were not deposited at the bank but kept by you and when no questions are asked then you people share the money between you otherwise why was the money not taken to the bank for safe deposit?