I was cross-examined by Sir John – Lithur

In what can be described as her first public comment since appearing before the Justice Samuel Kofi Date-Bah Committee, Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Nana Oye Lithur says she was cross-examined by the General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, over allegations that Mrs Lithur influenced the August 29 judgement of the Supreme Court on the landmark election petition.

Mr Afriyie, popularly known as Sir John, had petitioned Chief Justice Georgina Theodora Wood over suggestions by dismissed Deputy Minister of Communications, Victoria Hammah, on a leaked tape that Mrs Lithur influenced the decision by the nine justices, aside other allegations that the Lithurs are influential in the President John Dramani Mahama-led administration.

But speaking on TV3’s Hot Issues on Saturday, December 28, 2013, Mrs Lithur maintained that she never did anything like what was suggested on the leaked tape, popularly referred to as Vikileaks, and that those allegations were false.

“I will never do anything like that. The work I have done [over the past years] speak for itself,” she said.

“The sort of value, the sort of approach I have for work will not make me do that,” she confided in host Odelia Ofori, who stood in for Kwesi Pratt Jnr.

“It is very, very wrong. It is totally false,” she said of the allegations, adding that her statement on November 11, 2013 duly dismissed the suggestions.

“The allegation is untrue and preposterous. For the record, I do not have any sort of relationship with any of the judges who sat on the Petition, which would form the basis of any discussion or meeting with any of them in relation to it,” she had stated in her release.