AFARI GYAN MUST BE ARRESTED

Group Demands Prosecution Of EC Boss, Afari-Gyan

By United For Change Movement

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Ghanaians, from all indications, have been living with a false sense of belief that our eccentric EC chairman is some god who does no wrong, a phenomenon that has led to others nursing the thought that the man lives poles apart from bribery and corruption.

However, events leading to the 2012 elections made some Ghanaians come to the momentous conclusion that Dr. Kwadwo Afari Djan was not just extremely corrupt but a wicked liar and very treacherous! It was being bruited around during and after the famous election petition which lasted a record 8 months in the political history of Africa, that the chairman of the EC was in close cahoots with the ruling NDC and had been offered billions of cedis as his unofficial retirement benefit just to sing the same song as Johnson Asiedu Nketia in the witness' box.

This premonition was confirmed by Victoria Hammer, a former deputy minister when she sought to drum into the dumb skull of Rachel Apor that a lot of water went under the bridge before John Mahama was declared the ultimate winner of the elections and eventually the shocking supreme court ruling. Truth was murdered and justice completely annihilated for cash, putting it mildly, and Dr.Afari Gyan couldn't have been an outsider when that evil machination was being hatched.

United for Change Movement finds it extremely difficult to come to terms with the fact that there is enough incriminatory evidence to put Afari Gyan behind bars permanently, yet our government and its security apparatus seem to have folded their arms, they are just sitting on the fence. On the 30th day of August, 2013, Christopher John Smith and his partner, Nicholas Smith, both from East Sussex, were charged with payments of bribes to the Afari Djan led-electoral commission and that of Kenya, Mauritania and Somalia, before the Westminster Magistrate Court.

Christopher was the chairman of Smith and Ouzman printing firm while Nicholas Smith was the director of marketing. The two were convicted on 22nd December, 2014, at the Southwark Crown Court as a result of a Serious Fraud Office investigations into corrupt payments made for the awards of business contracts to the company. Chris was convicted of two counts of corruptly agreeing to pay the electoral bodies of Ghana, Kenya, Mauritania and Somaliland. The younger Smith was convicted of three counts of agreeing to pay bribes for the awards of contracts in the above-mentioned countries. Sentencing will take place on the 12th day of February, 2015.

Dr.Kwadwo Afari Djan has been at the helm of affairs of our Electoral Commission since time immemorial, and has benefited immensely from these illegal payments. United for Change Movement finds this more than mind-boggling that nothing is being done by our loud-mouth security experts to bring sunshine to this darkness that seems to have engulfed our EC. It beats our wildest imaginations why Dr Afari Djan and his cohorts are not being investigated by the BNI. Our EC's complicity in this international debacle tacitly confirms our irrevocable supposition that the Dr. Afari Gyan led-electoral commission is a symbol of corruption, perhaps, second to none in terms of public entities deemed to be extremely corrupt.

If Mahama wants the world to rally behind him in his resolve to fighting corruption, it is about time he showed us by instructing our investigative bodies to delve deeper into the issues surrounding these corrupt deals at the Electoral Commission. Anything short of Mahama walking his talk will be met with a series of actions whose repercussions may be far beyond the reach of this administration, and that is all that United for Change Movement is asking for!

SIGNED:
Robbie Sarkodie Klinsman
P. K. Sarpong
Jamaludeen A. Abdullah
Eddie Nii
Kate Pratt
Johny Walker