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Minister raises questions about EC’s figures on accreditation fees
The Minister believes the figures do not add up.
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Parliament summoned the EC Chairperson, Charlotte Osei to brief the House about how much the Commission made from the controversial accreditation fees it charged journalists who covered the 2016 general elections.
In her submission, Madam Owusu said: “When the Chairperson was making her presentation, she indicated that 4,271 applications were received for media persons and they charged them 10 cedis each for the accreditation in addition to that 273 media persons were accredited without any charge because they were at the national collation centre and they paid the centre a total of 42,713 cedis for all these cards that they processed so if you add 4,271 to 273 you get 4, ,544 . Now by my calculation she said the printer charged them 8 cedi per card without the fee. Multiplying the 8 by the 4,544 will give you 36, 352. She further indicated that they paid 10 cedi because they added VAT to the 8 cedi charge which will be two additional fees and that will bring the total to 45,440 and yet she told us that they paid a total of 42,113 so it does not add up.”
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She added that: “Now in her response she[Charlotte Osei] indicated that they were not actual figures..She said they just extracted figures based on the amount in their coffers as against the amount they paid…she said she was not the one who actually paid those monies and these were the figures that she quoted from the records and it just did not add up because going by her own calculation, they either paid too little or too much to the printers and where did the rest of the money go?”
Meanwhile, the EC Chairperson told parliament on Thursday that monies her outfit took from some Ghanaians for the replacement of lost voter's ID cards during last year’s elections, are intact and not missing.
Ms Charlotte Osei said the money estimated at over ¢2.5 million is in the EC’s bank account at GCB Bank.
She said the failure of the EC to have captured the amount in its financial statement for 2017 was an “oversight”.
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