Civil society group, CitizenGhana Movement, is asking\u00a0the Electoral Commission (EC) to furnish it with copies of the annual audited accounts and assets and revenues of all 24 registered political parties.<\/p>\n
The group, in a statement, indicated that it had written to the EC on the 29th of March, 2017 in this regard.<\/p>\n
The group said the letter was the first of a series of actions intended \u201cto push for more transparency in the body politic of Ghana.\u201d<\/p>\n
The \u00a0CitizenGhana Movement stressed that, its efforts were critical in the overall fight against corruption, and expressed hope that the EC would respect its constitutional rights to information.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe opaque political party finance system is at the heart of the complex of political patronage and allows some people to be awarded fraudulent contracts as repayments for their campaign contributions,\u201d the statement noted.<\/p>\n
If their demands are not met, the group said it \u201cshall not hesitate to proceed to the courts of law to enforce this right.\u201d<\/p>\n
Find below the full statement<\/strong><\/p>\n CITIZENGHANA MOVEMENT DEMANDS DETAILS OF CAMPAIGN FINANCE FROM ELECTORAL COMMISSION<\/strong><\/p>\n On Thursday the 29th of March, 2017, the CitizenGhana Movement (CGM), a civil society group dedicated to the cause of good governance, social justice and social accountability, wrote to the Electoral Commission to demand copies of the annual audited accounts and assets and revenues of all 24 registered political parties.<\/p>\n In the letter, Lolan Ekow Sagoe-Moses, a member of the CitizenGhana Movement and lead applicant in the RIGHT TO INFORMATION CASE (also called the Bus Branding Case), Lolan Sagoe-Moses and 6 Others vrs Honourable Minister of Transport and Attorney General, Suit No HR\/0027\/2015 demanded:<\/p>\n These demands were made pursuant to Article 55(14) of the 1992 Constitution, Section 14 of the Political Parties Act and the constitutional right to information as affirmed in the Bus Branding case.<\/p>\n This letter is the first of a series of actions CGM intends to take this year to push for more transparency in the body politic of Ghana. We at CGM consider this move as critical in the overall fight against corruption.<\/p>\n The opaque political party finance system is at the heart of the complex of political patronage and allows some people to be awarded fraudulent contracts as repayments for their campaign contributions.<\/p>\n We are hopeful that the Electoral Commission shall respect our constitutional right to information and furnish us with the information requested. We shall however not hesitate to proceed to the courts of law to enforce this right should the Electoral Commission fail to grant our request.<\/p>\n We humbly call on all Ghanaians to join us to combat the problem of opaque political party finance and the harmful system of patronage it fuels.<\/p>\n —Signed—<\/p>\n <\/p>\n CitizenGhana Movement<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Civil society group, CitizenGhana Movement, is asking\u00a0the Electoral Commission (EC) to furnish it with copies of the annual audited accounts and assets and revenues of all 24 registered political parties. The group, in a statement, indicated that it had written to the EC on the 29th of March, 2017 in this regard. The group said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[6177,3],"yoast_head":"\n\n