The Electoral Commission (EC) has dispelled vile reports on the internet claiming the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Mrs Jean Mensa, has contracted the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
A statement from the Commission said the malicious story was first sighted on a news portal dubbed HardtruthGH.Com and stressed the story is not true.
The Chairperson, it said, is well and at post and has not tested positive for the Corona Virus.
The statement signed by EC’s Acting Director of Public Affairs, Mrs Sylvia Annoh entreated the general public to disregard the lies and fabrications and treat the story with the contempt it deserves.
Read below the full text of the release:
DISREGARD THE LIES: EC CHAIR HAS NOT TESTED POSITIVE FOR COVID-19
Our attention has been drawn to a malicious story circulating on a news portal which calls itself HardtruthGH.Com claiming that the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission Mrs. Jean Mensa has contracted the COVID -19 Corona Virus.
The Commission wishes to state categorically that this is an outright lie and a figment of the author’s warped imagination.
The Commission wishes to state that the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission is well and at post. She has not tested positive for the Corona Virus.
We are therefore calling on the general public to disregard the lies and fabrications and treat the story with the contempt it deserves.
The desires of her detractors will never succeed.
SYLVIA ANNOH (MRS.)
AG. DIRECTOR, PUBLIC AFFAIRS
