Pink Sheets Dilemma: Is Bawumia Still Standing or Bruised?

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• DOUBLE STANDARDS 12 years ago

  NPP IDIOTS!!!!

  NPP IDIOTS!!!!

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• Maka Maka 12 years ago

  Who is this idiots.

  Who is this idiots.

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• Yami 12 years ago

  He is the NPP rep in the UK and Ireland.

  He is the NPP rep in the UK and Ireland.

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• Tmak 12 years ago

  Kofi Ata just missed his levelheadedness by trying to satisfy curious readers simply because he has been attacked here for saying the truth. Now he turns to be the judge all of a sudden, undermining his own before now unadult ...
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  Kofi Ata just missed his levelheadedness by trying to satisfy curious readers simply because he has been attacked here for saying the truth. Now he turns to be the judge all of a sudden, undermining his own before now unadulterated clear mind.
  
  Kofi, you're lost.

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• Tmak 12 years ago

  " I am not sure how the Justices would interpret such wholesale irregularities across the country. Would they see them as simply mistakes, administrative errors or what? "
  
  The behavior of Ghanaians during the registration ...
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  " I am not sure how the Justices would interpret such wholesale irregularities across the country. Would they see them as simply mistakes, administrative errors or what? "
  
  The behavior of Ghanaians during the registration and voting reflects on one part the education level of your countrymen, and on the other, the measure of discipline of the average Ghanaian. You can't expect the EC or Afari Gyan to have a whip behind those doing the registration.
  
  Ghanaians, I continue to say, I very selfish, hypocritical and very uncultured. Until they begin to see from the view-point that primes the country over individuals we should brace ourselves for a repeat of many such occurrences in the future.
  
  Don't try to balance your thoughts to suit people: that undermines your objectivity, therefore credibility. Anyone wanting truth will just about stop reading from the third paragraph.

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• BRAVEBOY 12 years ago

  At least I am not the only one watching this Ata kofi.

  At least I am not the only one watching this Ata kofi.

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• BRAVEBOY 12 years ago

  Kofi Ata, I have warned you in the past not to think you can go to Ghana and do politics. You are an apology to Nkrumah's Ghana. Stay in Cambridge for the rest of your life. Ghana will do well without idiots like you. There's ...
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  Kofi Ata, I have warned you in the past not to think you can go to Ghana and do politics. You are an apology to Nkrumah's Ghana. Stay in Cambridge for the rest of your life. Ghana will do well without idiots like you. There's nothing called I 'may not be entirely objective'. You are either objective or subjective. Fact.
  I have read your article and though you tried to pretend to be objective, there is the devil in the letter.
  You are a typical ambitious politician with a clever coat of a chameleon and I hope Ghanaians will be able to read between the lines.

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• ********** 12 years ago

  Your tantrums won't help. He wrote what he thinks about the hearing. If you disagree say so and why you disagree and stop the infantile tantrums.

  Your tantrums won't help. He wrote what he thinks about the hearing. If you disagree say so and why you disagree and stop the infantile tantrums.

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• BRAVEBOY 12 years ago

  Tantrums! what did you think you were doing when you guys went on demo washing your dirty linen on the streets of London?

  Tantrums! what did you think you were doing when you guys went on demo washing your dirty linen on the streets of London?

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• j s addo 12 years ago

  this is a beautiful narration but you failed to bring out the remit of the court.the standard measurement on which the case could be judged.yours have been conjectures suggestions analogies and sometimes subjective conclusion ...
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  this is a beautiful narration but you failed to bring out the remit of the court.the standard measurement on which the case could be judged.yours have been conjectures suggestions analogies and sometimes subjective conclusions.you and i were not there a very important phrase that bawumia used to buttress the objectivity of the case. he wants to base his submission on the pinksheet which is abvious and graphic narrations of what went there.this case does not demand much subjective submissions.the pink sheet is a summary of what went on.it now needs the justices and ec to assess if the interpretations of bawumia on the pinksheets can be corraborated by the justices and ec.the remit is were there violations yes or no did it impact on the elections yes or no.whatever happend during elections day is summarised on the pinksheet.so the case is on the face of the pink sheet verses the laws of the land and the ec simple.

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• BRAVEBOY 12 years ago

  j s Addo, read my comment in keep the name in your head because you will need it one day. The petitioners are as elusive as the so called elusive bird, the partridge. One moment the evidence is on the surface of the pink shee ...
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  j s Addo, read my comment in keep the name in your head because you will need it one day. The petitioners are as elusive as the so called elusive bird, the partridge. One moment the evidence is on the surface of the pink sheet another moment it is in the analysis on the CD rom. I am getting tired following them. I thought they were questioning Afari Gyan and Mahama's credibility. Oh! in case I forget, Bawumia said he can not blame Mahama. Can they say sorry to him then.

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• Speedy Gonzalez 12 years ago

  Bawumia is badly bruised,he is pretty much finished.The guy has tarnished his image so badly that his political future is caput.I don't know what he was thinking before taking over the role as chief witness.The smart arses in ...
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  Bawumia is badly bruised,he is pretty much finished.The guy has tarnished his image so badly that his political future is caput.I don't know what he was thinking before taking over the role as chief witness.The smart arses in the party sat back to allow "the brainy Bawumia"to eat the humble pie,and when the dust is settled will bounce back to claim ownership,where is Jake,Agyare,Mac Manu and Sarfo Marfo?Poor Bawumia. :

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• BRAVEBOY 12 years ago

  Poor Bawumia indeed. He is an Oxford graduate, so I was expecting better than this from him. Oh! my mother once said, you can learn knowledge and not wisdom from the classroom. It is a very elusive attribute.

  Poor Bawumia indeed. He is an Oxford graduate, so I was expecting better than this from him. Oh! my mother once said, you can learn knowledge and not wisdom from the classroom. It is a very elusive attribute.

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• Wogyedie_nes3n? 12 years ago

  When you say: "These simple arithmetic calculations could have been done by senior secondary school graduates. It’s a national disgrace"?
  Did Tsikata not make reference to the fact the even he Bawumiah,the much-touted econ ...
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  When you say: "These simple arithmetic calculations could have been done by senior secondary school graduates. It’s a national disgrace"?
  Did Tsikata not make reference to the fact the even he Bawumiah,the much-touted econometrician,goofed when he and his team of high-priced attorneys put their petition together? And btw,do you realize that many of the temporary election officials have still not been paid for the services rendered during the 2 days of voting? Listen, mistakes are always going to happen in 'big' events such as elections! The "national disgrace", in my view, stems from the fact the people who parade themselves,both at home and abroad, as democrats,would want to elevate petty and silly administrative errors to the level of "malpractices"(well-calculated efforts to commit election fraud and other acts of criminality),"consititutional violations",and whatever terminology that has been used in this frivilous petition. And all this done with the view to disenfrinchise a sizeable portion of the electorate,so that a party and their presidential candidate,who were soundly trounched at the ballot box, can gain political power via the 'backdoor'. That is the the "national disgrace" I would submit!

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• BRAVEBOY 12 years ago

  Oh! Oh! Oh! my brother say it again. Kofi Ata thinks all Ghanaians are stupid

  Oh! Oh! Oh! my brother say it again. Kofi Ata thinks all Ghanaians are stupid

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• Yaw Berfi 12 years ago

  The writer's attempt to justify the petitioners submission of double, triple and in some cases quadruple pink sheets on the same polling station is very much erroneous. I say this because according to petitioners all the vari ...
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  The writer's attempt to justify the petitioners submission of double, triple and in some cases quadruple pink sheets on the same polling station is very much erroneous. I say this because according to petitioners all the various alleged malpractice s were grouped according to how they appeared on the pink sheets. And witness was specifically asked if he did not use pink sheets of one polling station multiple times as evidence in the various categorizations. And these are sworn testimonies, my friends. If you swear to legal document to be true to the best of your knowledge and it turns out to be false, it affects your credibility and that is all Tsikata is aiming to do and so far he has been successful. In many ways he has portrayed to the court that the witness cannot be reliable i.e swearing to a particular number of affidavits and coming back to say sorry I was wrong initially raises the question 'what else ccould you be wrong about?'

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• BRAVEBOY 12 years ago

  Yaw unfortunately, Ghana has a long way to go because it appears some people have blocked minds and I wonder how many of the NPP supporters will understand what you have just said.

  Yaw unfortunately, Ghana has a long way to go because it appears some people have blocked minds and I wonder how many of the NPP supporters will understand what you have just said.

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• Ghanaman-USA 12 years ago

  What Bawumia is saying is that every pink sheet was used ONLY ONCE as evidence.Everyone should see his venn diagram. The implication here is that one pink sheet can fall under different categories. All that the ruling is abou ...
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  What Bawumia is saying is that every pink sheet was used ONLY ONCE as evidence.Everyone should see his venn diagram. The implication here is that one pink sheet can fall under different categories. All that the ruling is about is simple. At the end of the day all the cross examinations will have come to nothing.I can`t immagine how a SC can conclude that these are duplications. Bawumia is admitting the DUPLICATIONS to make matters very simple for the simple-minded. I wonder how many people can immagine this simplicity?

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• WHATEVER 12 years ago

  You aretalking to blockheads from the ndc fool soldiers brigade and venn diagram to them is like seizing toilets. These fools can live in stupidity until they die.

  You aretalking to blockheads from the ndc fool soldiers brigade and venn diagram to them is like seizing toilets. These fools can live in stupidity until they die.

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• Sankofa 12 years ago

  The fact that Bawumia has said he used each pink sheet only once in his analysis does not mean he actually did.
  
  The court must determine if he did so.
  
  The count and audit will determine the number of different pink shee ...
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  The fact that Bawumia has said he used each pink sheet only once in his analysis does not mean he actually did.
  
  The court must determine if he did so.
  
  The count and audit will determine the number of different pink sheets submitted in evidence.

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• okofo 12 years ago

  I think the writer is wrong if he thinks the "you and I were not there" phrase by Bawumia is contradictory, just because that witness later identified a blank sheet as an over-voting. If it was required of Bawumia or the peti ...
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  I think the writer is wrong if he thinks the "you and I were not there" phrase by Bawumia is contradictory, just because that witness later identified a blank sheet as an over-voting. If it was required of Bawumia or the petitioners to be physically present at polling stations in dispute before they could challenge them, then there would NEVER be any challenge against any election, because it's impossible to be at ALL polling stations at election day.
  
  The pink sheets contain information of what HAPPENED at individual polling stations, and it's that information that's being extrapolated by petitioners to make their case.
  
  However, the writer made what I think is a very important point which Bawumia has so far not brought forth: That the douplecates or triplecates of pick sheet could mean one single sheet could have more than one irregularity, hence appearing more than once in the evidence made available to the respondents and the court.
  
  In my opinion, the petitioners over-voting allegation is proven (regardless of how insignificant of otherwise), because even Tastsu has produced what he claims to be an over voting pink sheet from the Asante Region, even though the purpose was to make a case that the petioners presented ONLY what they saw as over-voting in their opponent's so called stronghold. Presenting an evidence of over-voting in the petitioner's stronghold will not nullify the fact that it was still over-voting, except that the petitioners appear to have done that to protect their votes if those vote were in their favour.
  
  Now if one folloows he premise set by the court, the ONLY question remaining in order to come to a conclusion is that, "are the number of votes found to be over-voting or ommission, administrative "errors", or irregularity big enough to make any impact on the results of the 2012 election?

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• BRAVEBOY 12 years ago

  Okofo, just like your masters, make things up as you go along. Do you understand why the respondents keep using the phrase, the case has been filed in bad faith.

  Okofo, just like your masters, make things up as you go along. Do you understand why the respondents keep using the phrase, the case has been filed in bad faith.

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• Vivantus 12 years ago

  U are right kofi but bawumia is injuired

  U are right kofi but bawumia is injuired

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• GENERAL DeGAULE 12 years ago

  Mr. Tsikata was not cross examining the witness. He was making a submission to the bench when the bellicose and jumpy opposite counsel but in to ask "is he addressing the court". That is when Mr Tsikata said "CAN YOU SHUT UP ...
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  Mr. Tsikata was not cross examining the witness. He was making a submission to the bench when the bellicose and jumpy opposite counsel but in to ask "is he addressing the court". That is when Mr Tsikata said "CAN YOU SHUT UP AND LET ME FINISH MY SUBMISSION" Is that an insult? It is best not to pass judgement on matters that you do not witness first hand.

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• CARDINAL 12 years ago

  'Mr. Tsikata was not cross examining the witness. He was making a submission to the bench when the bellicose and jumpy opposite counsel but in to ask "is he addressing the court".
  
  STOP BEING A FOOL AND A DAMN!!! LIAR. TSAT ...
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  'Mr. Tsikata was not cross examining the witness. He was making a submission to the bench when the bellicose and jumpy opposite counsel but in to ask "is he addressing the court".
  
  STOP BEING A FOOL AND A DAMN!!! LIAR. TSATSU WAS CROSS EXAMINING DR BAWUMIAH WHEN LAWYER ADDISON OBJECTED AND BELOW IS WHAT HAPPENED A WEEK AGO TODAY.READ AND SEE HOW A LIAR YOU ARE.
  
  "Tsatsu Tsikata, Counsel for 3rd Respondents in the ongoing Presidential Election Petition at the Supreme Court, on Monday lost his cool and blurted out to Philip Addison, who represents the petitioners to “shut up”.
  
  Tsatsu Tsikata, Counsel for National Democratic Congress (NDC), who was in round 4 of his cross examination tussle with Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, main witness for the petitioners, could not control his outrage at the interruption by Counsel Philip Addison as he (Addison) rose to object to a question Tsikata had posed to the witness on its relevancy to the issues being determined by the court.
  
  As Counsel Philip Addison rose to make his objection, Tsikata blurted out “would you shut up ” to the amazement of all present in court.
  
  A statement issued by the Communications Directorate of NPP released a few hours after the incident blamed Tsatsu’s actions on “frustration”."

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• Paul Amuna 12 years ago

  I respect your analysis and views although I have other impressions.
  
  I happen to believe that the outcome of the audit of pink sheets will shed proper light on the permutations and combinations used by the key witness in ...
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  I respect your analysis and views although I have other impressions.
  
  I happen to believe that the outcome of the audit of pink sheets will shed proper light on the permutations and combinations used by the key witness in his analysis. If it turns out that his calculations were based on numbers greater than the sum total of actual individual pink sheets, my impression is that it could be a game changer and the case could be over sooner than you have predicted.
  
  I would however wish to hear the side of the second respondent in as much as we all wish to see administrative and other errors addressed for the sake of future elections. Indeed you are right. We should expect nothing less than literate and numerate election agents to be involved and just as is often done with Census data collection, use the youth to do the collation and recordings after training to avoid such basic errors.

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• LONTO-BOY 12 years ago

  MASSA KOFI, this is a very good piece. You've been brilliant in your analysis and perspicacious in your arguments. Obviously, Dr Bawumiah is a very intelligent and decent man. However, the outcome of the KPMG audit analysis o ...
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  MASSA KOFI, this is a very good piece. You've been brilliant in your analysis and perspicacious in your arguments. Obviously, Dr Bawumiah is a very intelligent and decent man. However, the outcome of the KPMG audit analysis of the Pink Sheets as ordered by the Supreme Court may dramatically enhance or damage his personality and political fortunes if the audit analysis is damnable. That will not only be embarrassing, but he could be vulnerable to the charge of perjury for lying under oath to the Supreme Court.
  
  Methinks, at the moment, Dr Bawumia's reputation and the integrity of NPP's evidence are at stake.

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• Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 12 years ago

  LONTO-BOY, I listened to the 8.00pm (Ghana) Joy News on my laptop and heard Gloria Akufo give the same explanation as why the pink sheets duplications, etc. I gave this explanation in one of my earlier articles on Ghanaweb. I ...
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  LONTO-BOY, I listened to the 8.00pm (Ghana) Joy News on my laptop and heard Gloria Akufo give the same explanation as why the pink sheets duplications, etc. I gave this explanation in one of my earlier articles on Ghanaweb. I used venn diagram to explain it. It's unfortunate that Bawumia continued to say that his analysis did not repeat the pink sheets. I agree with you that the KPMG audit will have a lot of impact on this case though that could not determine the outcome of the case.

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• Koo 12 years ago

  Massa Kofi Ata, kudos to you. This is the best post I have ever read on Ghanaweb. Let's have more of that in the future.

  Massa Kofi Ata, kudos to you. This is the best post I have ever read on Ghanaweb. Let's have more of that in the future.

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• Sankofa 12 years ago

  Kofi, this is where I disagree with you.
  
  Bawumia has sworn on oath to speak the truth.
  
  He has categorically stated repeatedly that 11852 pink sheets were submitted and used in the analysis.
  
  If it turns out that there ...
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  Kofi, this is where I disagree with you.
  
  Bawumia has sworn on oath to speak the truth.
  
  He has categorically stated repeatedly that 11852 pink sheets were submitted and used in the analysis.
  
  If it turns out that there are actually fewer pink sheets, then it means he has lied to the court and his evidence cannot be relied upon. He is also guilty of perjury.
  
  The court could decide that the case must be stopped on the basis that key evidence which are the pink sheets, is flawed, and the witness of the key petitioner cannot be relied upon.

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• Okonko Palm 12 years ago

  As much as you wish to be balanced and objective to sound even handed,I thought you were a bit unfair to Tsatsu for describing him as uncouth for his remarks to Addison.When a gang of npp lawyers were pushing this Addison to ...
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  As much as you wish to be balanced and objective to sound even handed,I thought you were a bit unfair to Tsatsu for describing him as uncouth for his remarks to Addison.When a gang of npp lawyers were pushing this Addison to get up and disrupt his thought process and to signal answers to the witness,there was the need to quieten him up which could be described as unfortunate but not uncouth.What would you describe Addison who must first seek the permission of the bench before an objection but bursts out as he wishes.Lawyers plan their strategy when it comes to cross examination and the purpose of which can only be revealed in the closing address and unless you know what the strategy is you can only be speculating over its effectiveness.All said it is a frivolous petition and it is heading towards a failure.

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• Mallam Kankane 12 years ago

  Kofi i think you tried to be as objective as you can but human as you are and giving the sensitive nature of this case you are bound to incur the wrath of die hard party faithfuls. What i have been wondering all about is inst ...
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  Kofi i think you tried to be as objective as you can but human as you are and giving the sensitive nature of this case you are bound to incur the wrath of die hard party faithfuls. What i have been wondering all about is instead of this audit by KPMG why couldn't the SC order the audit of all the pink sheets from all the polling stations? I know many will disagree with me but that would have been the fairest way to shed light on where the so called irregularities occured.

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