You are insensitive and greedy for going after Ayensuano seat. NDC youth blast the party’s current national deputy youth organizer , Ruth Seddoh

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                      🖇️story by; Yakubu Adams Democracy is indeed the ultimate positive revolution because it gives every individual of adult suffrage the power to change, control, and direct duty bearers for the common good of the people. But in every multi-party democracy, individual aspirations must always be in sync with their ideological party identity, the very platform on which those individuals would want to stand and advance their political growth  The NDC as a political party must not become just a tool for party executives in actualizing just their dreams, rather, party executives must remain religious to their contracts and promises upon which they were elected to serve. Barely few weeks ago, Ruth Seddoh told the over one thousand party delegates drawn from the 275 constituencies across the country that they should elect her as a deputy national youth organizer of the party, in order to work for the party and deliver the youth votes  Ten (10) candidates were standing up f
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UGSRC General Assembly resit a falsified voting document from the speaker.

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Due to the Covid-19 pandemic which  has brought the World into a crisis,the University of Ghana Students' Representative Council (SRC) General Assembly had their first Virtual meeting on May 20,2020 to continue with the Affairs of the SRC.
The Speaker Rt.Hon. Emmanuel Owusu Agyei Ampem who was the Chairman of the House began the meeting at 8:43pm with 68 members present. 
The Agendum for the Sitting were;
1. Freashers First Policy
2.Approval of the SRC Electoral Commissioners 
3.Vetting Committee for SRC Executive Aspirants.

After the Honorable Members finished with the first Agenda,the Speaker of the house asked Hon.Jimmy Adangbe who was the Chairman of the Electoral Commission Vetting Panel to present the results by the panel and it states,

The committee would, therefore, put the names of the Electoral Commissioners for approval and proceed with the other applicants (vetting Panel Members) 

Sharon Pinsung Dokorugu- Chairperson 87%

Ernest Mensah Amponsah- First deputy 83%

Gabriel Ahiamata- Second Deputy 77%

Emmanuel Kofi Adika 68%

The Speaker then proceeded to the Next agenda which was the approval of the Electoral Commissioners.

Normally, Honorable Members Vote with either "Yes or No" and the "Show of hands" by their orders.
For transparency sake,89% of the members suggested the voting should be done on the platform with the normal order but the Speaker of the House insisted the voting will be done with Google form which will be having all the security measures and it would be handled and controlled by the Clerk of the house.

This brought misunderstanding in the house  and many of the Honorable Members rose concerns,but the Speaker ignored and went ahead to drop the Google form link.
Reports from the Honorable Members states that, 10 seconds after the link was dropped on  the page,voting ended and none of them were able to vote.
What can be the cause of this problem?

The Clerk then changed the Group setting to "only admins can send message".
Ten minutes later(10),the setting was changed back and the Speaker dropped a results from the Google form with No Votes  having a higher percentage.
98% of the Official members reported,they couldn't vote as well.

He then asked for a motion to be moved to disapprove the EC vetting results and immediately,he left the meeting  and their official  Whatsapp page without listening to any of his Members.

The Clerk who the Speaker mentioned to be the moderator of the Google voting issued a disclaimer after the results were dropped and it states, 

I AM UNABLE TO RECORD THIS MEETING...MY OFFICE SHALL RELEASE A STATEMENT SOON. IN THE WHILE I AM NO NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE THE GOOGLE FORMS USED FOR THE VOTING  WE MUST PROCEED IN INTEGRITY. MAYBE ITS HIGH TIME SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER. I AM SORRY I LEAVE NOW, BUT BEAR WITH ME. I WOULD LOVE IF THIS MEETING BROUGHT TO AN END PROCEDURALLY SOON. IF NOT I MAY EXIT WITH YOUR KIND PERMISSION TO THE HOUSE

These were some few concerns from the Honorable Members; 

*The clerk didn’t develop the system so he guaranteeing that will be very difficult..Sincerely
*People on the page are not supporting it and you want the speaker to proceed?
*Mr.Speaker Honorable members want to vote here..
* Mr. Speaker your refusal to allow us speak, will lead us to stop obeying the rules. This house will now be chaotic. Let’s be guided.
*I want to help the house with a system of voting
*Ah but the form is no longer accepting responses...less than a 20 seconds after it was placed here.
*What game is this one too? Ah are you playing with us or something?
* But Mr Speaker, this looks highly orchestrated and predetermined. How's it possible such structures were put so swiftly in place before this meeting.
*The house can't accept this. 
*Mr Speaker, this looks so undemocratic.

Since this decision went against the constitution of the Assembly and  Democracy, a procedural motion was moved by Hon. Divine Kwadzodeh and was supported by ten Honorable Members to get the deputy speaker and the Clerk to continue with the business of the house. The House then proceeded to conduct an open voting on the page with over 30 Yes votes and 0 No Vote representing a unanimous approval of the Electoral Commissioners. 
Some pictorial evidence of the proceedings and the open voting is attached.

The house also indicated that it will conduct an investigation on the Speaker Hon.Owusu Ampem and when guilty,removal of office could be an option.

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  1. AnonymousMay 21, 2020 at 2:48 AM

    They should dismiss the Speaker from the house.A Speaker must be unparticisan

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