Many have been wondering why Joseph Blankson Adumadzie, the interdicted Electoral Commission (EC) staff member, has petitioned President John Mahama to remove Chairperson Jean Mensa and her two deputies.
He has filed the petition under Article 146 of the Constitution, accusing the EC leadership of misconduct. When asked why he has chosen this route, Joseph Adumadzie indicated that his motivation came from what he believes are deepening problems in how the Commission is being managed.
His given reason, it is important to stress, is worlds apart from the truth. This gentleman cannot, and hasn’t been able to adduce any concrete facts to substantiate his claim of mismanagement by the Jean Mensa-led administration.
If even he’s given a thousand years to provide evidence of the mismanagement he talks about, Joseph Blankson can never give any convincing reason to support his claim.
His inability to provide proof of his claim is grounded in the fact that there is no mismanagement at the Electoral Commission as he seeks to suggest. He is a man of straw because his claims against the top 3 EC bosses have no meaty substance.
One may wonder why Joseph Blankson is on this fruitless campaign to get the EC Commissioners ousted. It is that simple; he is in pains over his interdiction some two years ago.
The question is, what did he do to get interdicted? He was arrested for stealing computers and printers belonging to the Electoral Commission. The printers and laptops were found in his house when the police raided his residence.
Some staff of the IT Department of the Electoral Commission have said that stealing of the Commission’s gadgets date back to some years. It’d become a common practice which many had advised him against but all to no avail.
That led to his interdiction. Since he was interdicted, he’d been desperately spoiling for an opportunity to ‘take his pound of flesh’ from Jean Mensa and the two Deputies.
Interestingly enough, Joseph Blankson is bragging that he is close to people at the Presidency whom he will use for his personal revenge because he was caught stealing.
In effect, his theft of the computers and printers which led to his arrest and subsequent interdiction are his reasons for the petition to the President to remove the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission and the other two Deputies.
Joseph Blankson is not a credible person and for that matter, his petition should not be entertained in any shape or form by the President, let alone being acted upon.
P.K.Sarpong
Whispers from the Corridors of the Thinking Place
