Election Petition: ‘KPMG may end up mounting the witness box’

President of the Legal Advocacy Foundation Dr Maurice Ampaw says parties in the election petition which is being heard at the Supreme Court have baited international accounting firm, KPMG, into trouble.

“KPMG might end up mounting the witness box,” he said in a discussion on TV3’s Headlines on Saturday.

According to Dr Ampaw, KPMG would not have been put in a tight corner it is now if the question on the number of pink sheets had been managed better earlier. “We should have allowed the CD-ROM to be used,” he advised.

He explained that a strong case could have been made by the petitioners to maintain an earlier position of submitting electronic pink sheets on CD-ROM aside the manual copies.

A former Attorney General, Ayikoi Otoo, who was also on the programme said: “I don’t see the hullabaloo in the counting of pink sheets”.

According to him, even if the respondents succeed in changing the number of pink sheets, the petitioners may not be bothered as they are more concerned with categories such as over-voting, voting without biometric verification, serial numbers duplication and so on, he said.

Hearing on the petition has been put on hold until June 24, 2013 to allow parties settle differences over the number of pink sheets with KPMG.