{"id":133609,"date":"2015-07-11T16:00:47","date_gmt":"2015-07-11T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=133609"},"modified":"2015-07-11T15:12:26","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T15:12:26","slug":"review-tenure-of-ec-chairman-kufuor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/07\/review-tenure-of-ec-chairman-kufuor\/","title":{"rendered":"Review tenure of EC Chairman – Kufuor"},"content":{"rendered":"
Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has reiterated the need for a review of the current constitutional arrangement which gives the Chairman of the Electoral Commission (EC) an open-ended security of tenure.<\/p>\n
He said manning the EC for about 20 years as in the case of Dr Kwadwo Afari Gyan, the immediate past EC chairman, was not the best.<\/p>\n
He, therefore, proposed that the position be given a five-year tenure instead of the enjoyment of an open-ended security tenure as a Supreme Court Judge.<\/p>\n
Mr Kufuor, who was speaking yesterday at his residence in Accra when he received a delegation of political parties and governance institutions from Zimbabwe, Uganda and Kenya, however, said the EC chairman\u2019s term should go over one election.<\/p>\n
He said if the EC chairman performed well in the organisation of the elections, his or her term of office should be extended.<\/p>\n
However, he said, if the EC chairman failed to organise the elections well, his or her tenure should not be renewed.<\/p>\n
He told the delegation that calls for a review of the tenure of the EC chairman was one of the reforms needed in Ghana’s electoral system.<\/p>\n