{"id":114903,"date":"2026-02-11T08:05:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T08:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=114903"},"modified":"2026-02-11T08:05:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T08:05:26","slug":"baba-jamal-case-offers-opportunity-to-monitor-money-in-politics-sulemana-braimah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=114903","title":{"rendered":"Baba Jamal case offers opportunity to monitor money in politics \u2013 Sulemana Braimah"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Executive Director of the Media Foundation for West Africa, Sulemana Braimah, has described the National Democratic Congress\u2019s decision to maintain Baba Jamal as its Ayawaso East candidate as an opportunity to intensify monitoring of money in politics across all parties.<\/p>\n

Speaking on the Joy Super Morning Show on Wednesday, Mr Braimah acknowledged that while vote-buying is a widespread problem in Ghanaian politics, the Baba Jamal controversy presents a chance for activists to track and confront the practice more systematically.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat it therefore means is that it provides an opportunity for close monitoring, for close assessment in everything relating to whether parliamentary primaries, presidential primaries, national executive officer elections, regional executive officer elections, and district level executive officer elections,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The media advocate\u2019s comments follow the NDC\u2019s decision to allow Baba Jamal to contest the March 3 by-election despite the party\u2019s investigative committee confirming that vote-buying occurred during the February 7 primary.<\/p>\n

NDC General Secretary Fifi Fiavi Kwetey cited time constraints, potential legal challenges, and lack of clear constitutional provisions for annulment as reasons for maintaining Baba Jamal as the party\u2019s candidate.<\/p>\n

Mr Braimah noted that while the party\u2019s explanation centres on constitutional and procedural constraints, the situation should galvanise civil society to intensify scrutiny of electoral processes.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt presents an opportunity for us as Ghanaians, as advocates and activists, to closely monitor what will happen and to bring any perpetrators of money in politics to the attention of the leadership of the party to see whether they will take action or not,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

The MFWA boss emphasised that money in politics is not limited to the NDC, noting that the New Patriotic Party and other political parties face similar challenges.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not just the NDC, the NPP, it also happens,\u201d Mr Braimah said, adding that continued tolerance of the practice is unacceptable.<\/p>\n

He argued that while Ghanaians recognise vote-buying as a persistent problem, confronting it requires systematic monitoring across all political party activities, including the NDC\u2019s upcoming district-level executive officer elections.<\/p>\n

Baba Jamal, who won the primary with 431 votes against Hajia Amina Adam\u2019s 399 votes, was recalled from his position as Ghana\u2019s High Commissioner to Nigeria following the controversy.<\/p>\n

The Office of the Special Prosecutor continues to investigate the allegations separately from the party\u2019s internal probe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Executive Director of the Media Foundation for West Africa, Sulemana Braimah, has described the National Democratic Congress’s decision to maintain Baba Jamal as its Ayawaso East candidate as an opportunity to intensify monitoring of money in politics across all parties.<\/p>\n

Speaking on the Joy Super Morning Show on Wednesday, Mr Braimah acknowledged that while vote-buying is a widespread problem in Ghanaian politics, the Baba Jamal controversy presents a chance for activists to track and confront the practice more systematically.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_2277560469115098_106292521332774":"","twitter_aToxNzczMzI3Njk4OTg4ODUxMjAxOw==_1773327698988851200":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1906,1883,10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hp-news-5","category-national","category-politics","category-popular"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}