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Charlotte Osei helps Liberia clean voters’ register

Wednesday, November 18, 2020 at 11:19 AM by Mohammed Awal

- Charlotte Osei leads ECOWAS election and IT experts in Liberia

- Former chairperson of Ghana’s Electoral Commission is to help clean up the country’s voters’ roll

- Charlotte Osei was sacked as Ghana’s EC boss two years earlier

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The former head of Ghana’s Electoral Commission (EC), Charlotte Osei, is leading an ECOWAS election and IT experts team in Liberia to clean the country’s electoral roll.

The move aims at helping the Liberian National Elections Commission (NEC) to be ready for the country’s senatorial elections, a constitutional referendum, and bye elections slated for December 8, 2020.

The Office of the Special Representative of the President of the ECOWAS Commission in Liberia announced Osei’s deployment in a statement.

Charlotte Osei helps Liberia cleans voters’ register Source: Starrfm.com.gh
Source: UGC

According to the statement, sighted by Yen.com.gh, Liberia’s President George Manneh Weah requested the presence of the team in his country.

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Osei arrived in Liberia on November 15, 2020, to join the team of ECOWAS election and IT experts that had .....

The team was in Liberia since October 22, 2020, working with the NEC Data Centre, as well as the UNDP consultants attached to the centre.

This is in line with provisions of Article 14 of the Supplementary Protocol on Democracy and Good Governance as well as Article 53(c) of the ECOWAS Conflict Prevention Framework which is aimed at ensuring a credible and a free and fair electoral process in member countries.

President Akufo-Addo sacked Osei as the chairperson of the EC together with her two deputies two years earlier.

Osei’s dismissal followed allegations of corruption filed against her at the Supreme Court.

Former Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo recommended the removal of Osei and her two deputies on the basis for misbehavior and incompetence.

Meanwhile, YEN.com.gh earlier reported that Ghana's EC chairperson Jean Mensa said the commission was 95 percent ready for the conduct of the December 7 presidential and parliamentary elections.