The Supreme Court Must Be Decisive

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Rass rock 12 years ago

Another frustrated sick Ghanian in USA who can not even find a job in the states ,yet hoping for his party to win so that he can go there and practice greediness . SHAME !!!!!

Another frustrated sick Ghanian in USA who can not even find a job in the states ,yet hoping for his party to win so that he can go there and practice greediness . SHAME !!!!!
Ken Ntiamoa 12 years ago

Just go smell Korle Lagoon and after that tell me which country stinks more - Ghana or the USA. When people are talking sense, some of you try tell those of us abroad that we are fools.

Let me tell you, my friend. An el ...
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Just go smell Korle Lagoon and after that tell me which country stinks more - Ghana or the USA. When people are talking sense, some of you try tell those of us abroad that we are fools.

Let me tell you, my friend. An election dispute in the USA, if any, will never drag on for 8 months without a verdict. Ghana is trying desperately to copy the systems in the USA and GT Britain and yet sometimes you behave as if you are wiser than them or you have better systems than them. If you don't know, let me tell you. Ghana has car parts alright; but it doesn't have a car. Do you understand what I've just told you?

Go sit your somewhere and find a way to put those parts that you have together properly so that you can have a working system called a car that you can drive. OK????

And if you need assistance, you can call some one who knows better.

Have a great day!
Ken
ken 12 years ago

why should Ghanians even suffer when they have enormous resources we need good governance, transparent above all leaders that can create jobs for the people,People in the Sates are not different from Africans,why should this ...
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why should Ghanians even suffer when they have enormous resources we need good governance, transparent above all leaders that can create jobs for the people,People in the Sates are not different from Africans,why should this happen ? These are people that care and not pigs point of correction
EK 12 years ago

Interesting article.

Interesting article.
Sankofa 12 years ago

The Supreme court will declare its verdict as the judges deem fit.

You should look carefully at the weight of evidence before making your pronouncements on the merits of the petition.

Is the evidence adduced by the pet ...
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The Supreme court will declare its verdict as the judges deem fit.

You should look carefully at the weight of evidence before making your pronouncements on the merits of the petition.

Is the evidence adduced by the petitioners reliable? How many pink sheets were provided to the court? Why the disparity between the various batches provided to the registry, the presiding judge and the respondents? Why the disparity between the 11852 sheets persistently claimed by Dr Bawumia and the over 13000 sheets counted by KPMG?

If the petitioners had solid evidence why did Addison persistently try to mislead the court by fabricating 'evidence' which he was forced to withdraw time and again?

Why did the petitioners only draw attention to so-called irregularities in constituencies where President Mahama won, conveniently forgetting that the same 'irregukarities' occurred in constituencies won by Nana Akuffo-Addo?

How can the judges overturn the election results when the petitioners' evidence is so unreliable and selective?

These same 'irregularities' occurred in previous elections, yet the election results were accepted. so why should we not accept the results of this election? Moreso given the fact that all the international and local observer teams praised the conduct of the elections and declared it free and fair and endorsed the results as a true reflection of the will of the people.

Elections are won at the ballot box, not at the Supreme Court!
yam 12 years ago

excellent points.

excellent points.
Osei 12 years ago

SANKOFA
Yes as your name implies you have to go back for what you abandoned.
You dont have any sense of objective analysis at all. Did you attain college level education?

RASS ROCK
As for Rass Ross the least said about ...
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SANKOFA
Yes as your name implies you have to go back for what you abandoned.
You dont have any sense of objective analysis at all. Did you attain college level education?

RASS ROCK
As for Rass Ross the least said about him the better.
You live in this backward country called Ghana and you talk about things you dont know here in USA.
Come to USA and learn her democratic culture and you will know how backward Ghana is. With the likes of you , in the country, Ghana will still remain as it is for ever!!
Come to USA and learn some sense!!!
Because I used to think like you but my stay in USA has changed me positively.
nana 12 years ago

As for misleading the court as you put it can you tell us why Tsikata tried to mislead the court by presenting a fake letter purported to have been written by akuffo addo with a received date stamp as 3rd and the letter was w ...
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As for misleading the court as you put it can you tell us why Tsikata tried to mislead the court by presenting a fake letter purported to have been written by akuffo addo with a received date stamp as 3rd and the letter was written on the 5th?

If Addision only presented pink sheets for only Mahama's areas in terms of winning why did Quarshie Idun not present pink sheets to rebutt the allegation; in fact the EC did not present a single pink sheet and when they did at the end, it was a disaster as under cross exams by Addison, even the very EC pink sheets were found wanting.

Tsikata and the ndc when crosss examining afari gyan could have examined their own pink sheets to prove your point about bias but they refused to do so. What does that tell you??

Your point about the same irregularities happened in previous elections; how do you know? where is your evidence or is it hearsay and propaganda?

International observers aree not the electoral laws of Ghana. Observers are limited to a small cross section of the election process; did they visit every polling station to check on pink sheets, collation sheets, etc.? They just watched from a distance the process of voting; they did not see the little tricks about duplication of polling station codes, duplication and triplication of pink sheets which were used technically to cheat and dr bawumiah has found them out.
Sankofa 12 years ago

Nana, you should understand that the onus of proof lies on the petitioners. They have to prove their case to the court.

If the evidence adduced by the petitioners is flawed, the judges cannot rule in their favour.

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Nana, you should understand that the onus of proof lies on the petitioners. They have to prove their case to the court.

If the evidence adduced by the petitioners is flawed, the judges cannot rule in their favour.

In this case, the fact is that the petitioners claimed they presented 11582 pink sheets to the court. However the KPMG count revealed that there were over 13000. Moreover, there were discrepancies between the sheets presented to the registry and those given to the President of the panel, as well as those given to the respondents. So which set of pink sheets are the judges to use in determining the case?

The primary evidence adduced by the petitioners is unreliable. The case could be thrown out purely on that basis.

You ask why the respondents did not present pink sheets. There are at least two reasons. First they were under no obligation so to do. It was up to the petitioners to provide evidence to support their case. The aim of the respondents was to undermine the evidence of the petitioners. Counsel for respondents chose to use the petitioners own evidence to undermine their case. They exposed the flaws in the use of the pink sheets and the fact that padding and other forms of deception had been used in the evidence.

There is a crucial point which was raised by Tsatsu. The fact that no objections were raised by party agents about the results at polling stations when they had the power so to do. They signed the pink sheets, and did not even indicate on the sheets that they were protesting the results. The judges will not have failed to note this.

International observers see enough of the elections to be able to pass a verdict on the reliability of the election process and results. Remember that there were different groups of observers spread over different constituencies to give as wide a coverage as possible. They observed all processes meticulously,and even intervened where they did not understand anything. CHRAJ and CODEO, local bodies, also endorsed the results.

The use of biometric registration led to almost 1 million voters removed from the Ashanti region electoral register. That tells you that previous elections had the same issues that are being raised now.

All told, the petitioners case is deeply flawed for lack of evidence. The case is bound to fail.
WUNTIRA 12 years ago

I wonder why some NPP supporters still claim Nana won the elections but the EC conspired with JM to steal the elections in his favour.The lead counsel for the NPP Philip Addison categorically suggested to Dr. Afari Djan in op ...
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I wonder why some NPP supporters still claim Nana won the elections but the EC conspired with JM to steal the elections in his favour.The lead counsel for the NPP Philip Addison categorically suggested to Dr. Afari Djan in open court that at Ledzokuku constituency, JM has 53,000+ votes but the EC declared over 67,000 for him. And that, Nana Addo had 40,000+ votes but the EC declared 30,000+ votes for him. This implied the EC added over 20,000 votes to JM and deducted over 10,000 votes from Nana Addo's votes. After the judges overruled the respondents objections to the line of questioning by Philip Addison, what we all saw in court was shocking, to say the least. Philip Addison declared in open court that his figures were WRONG.Ghanaians went to the polls and voted for the candidate they wanted to be their president. A presiding officer failing to sign a pink sheet does not mean the people did not vote the way they voted. The Bible has described these NPP supporters in Matthew 13:13 as follows:
"Seeing, they see not;and hearing, they hear not; neither do they understand".

NAA4U 12 years ago

IF THEY SEE AND DO NOT SEE, THEY HEAR AND DO NOT HEAR, WHAT DID JESUS SAY THEY WERE: " BROOD OF VIPERS" AND EXACTLY SO ARE THEY.

IF THEY SEE AND DO NOT SEE, THEY HEAR AND DO NOT HEAR, WHAT DID JESUS SAY THEY WERE: " BROOD OF VIPERS" AND EXACTLY SO ARE THEY.
Queen 12 years ago

EXCELLENT.

EXCELLENT.
Kojo Opoku-LONDON 12 years ago

many thanks and there is nothing to add except, I agree with all the evidence you have produced and the principles you have advocated.

It is exactly because of lack of controls in every fabric of Ghanaian society, that has ...
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many thanks and there is nothing to add except, I agree with all the evidence you have produced and the principles you have advocated.

It is exactly because of lack of controls in every fabric of Ghanaian society, that has brought us to this destiny.

If all existing controls are adhered to, then we will succeed as a nation.

These controls are management controls, supervisory controls, arithmetic and authorisation controls, physical controls, segregation of duties and personnel controls.

Controls incorporated within the processes can be in the following forms: preventative-designed to prevent an error or event occurring, detective-designed to detect and report the instance as appropriate, if the error or event does occur and corrective-designed to correct the error, if the event or error does occur.
Jojo 12 years ago

I think you are somehow bias in your analysis in favour of NPP. A good judge should always be unbiased in his judgement.

I think you are somehow bias in your analysis in favour of NPP. A good judge should always be unbiased in his judgement.
PEE 12 years ago

Charles,
Thanks for such a wonderful piece of article. As a matter of fact, you beat me to it coz I was in the process of writing a similar article. I think I'd save my energy for later coz you've said it all.
I know you'd ...
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Charles,
Thanks for such a wonderful piece of article. As a matter of fact, you beat me to it coz I was in the process of writing a similar article. I think I'd save my energy for later coz you've said it all.
I know you'd get a lot of bashing from some quarters, but if we all believe in the fact that the truth is immutable and we refuse to say it as is, then fate would deal with us. I doff my hat to you, sir. I'd be contacting you through email for the way forward in your quest to minimize corruption in our motherland. Power, they say corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. My concern is to what extent? It's such a disgrace when we go borrowing a few millions dollars from abroad while we embezzle billions of dollars.
It's about time corruption is brought to an all time low for the benefit of the citizenry.
Once again, thanks for the insight. I'd be in touch.
God bless Ghana, God bless you all.
tiger shark 12 years ago

The SC set itself a target.
To decide if there were irregularities
at the 2912 polls and if there were irregularities if they affected the results of the polls.The Sc is not declaring a winner of the polls.There will be no ...
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The SC set itself a target.
To decide if there were irregularities
at the 2912 polls and if there were irregularities if they affected the results of the polls.The Sc is not declaring a winner of the polls.There will be no decision taken on anulling the results as the petitioners wish.
Anythingelse as the SC specified is wild Imagination.
In many countries including the US the
Petition would have been thrown out since Long.It is waste of recources to
allow the Petition to go so far.
Kalira 12 years ago

Oh npp stop deceiving your souls

Oh npp stop deceiving your souls
Ghanaba Babs in the Diaspora 12 years ago

Your article is lopsided. I have a problem with your interpretation of boldness and fairness. To you anything that goes contrary to the wishes of the plaintiffs may not be seen as fair.
Your argument is too simplistic. So fa ...
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Your article is lopsided. I have a problem with your interpretation of boldness and fairness. To you anything that goes contrary to the wishes of the plaintiffs may not be seen as fair.
Your argument is too simplistic. So far the window of opportunity provided to the plaintiffs to prove their case was badly handled.
You could see desperation written all over the place. It was like a child play. Not even student lawyers in a moot court will prosecute such a bad case.
It was waste of everyone's time. No hard and incontrovertible evidence to overturn the status quo has been presented.
Hold your peace and stop inflaming the situation any further with your infantile argument.
BOY KOFI 12 years ago

I believe the SC will uphold the EC's delaration of the 2012 Presidential results.For one reason,that is the will and the choice of the people.Prez Mahama did not declare himself a winner by force,he won a contested election. ...
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I believe the SC will uphold the EC's delaration of the 2012 Presidential results.For one reason,that is the will and the choice of the people.Prez Mahama did not declare himself a winner by force,he won a contested election.Prez Mahama did not swear himself as President,it was the Chief Justice,Georgina Wood who did it.Prez Mahama did not steal any vote from Nana Addo and the EC did not reduce any vote from Nana Addo so what's the point?To begin with,there may be some challenges but the evidence brought by the petitioners carry even many irregularities than the élections.The petition was not well prepared,full of mess and inaccuracies.As for me,I don't see how this can convince any reasonable judge.Thank you.
A CONCERNED GHANAIAN 12 years ago

That is democracy that we all need to practise.I do not begrudge the writer expect to say he has shown a complete bias as has always been the case.One thing for which Ghanaians are grateful is that,they have been given the op ...
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That is democracy that we all need to practise.I do not begrudge the writer expect to say he has shown a complete bias as has always been the case.One thing for which Ghanaians are grateful is that,they have been given the opprtunity to watch the proceedings live.Many Ghanaians wouldn´t have known what took place.And if there is anyone who is disapointed in that, it is the NPP.When they were calling for an open hearing of the case, they thought things were going to be on their side.Now they have seen it.Even a lay man can tell what exactly the NPP, led by Akufo Addo is about.If the late Mills had been alive and won this elections, there wouldn´t be this diabolical acts by Akufo Addo to challenge him.But being a dirty tribal bigot that they(Ashanti/Akyems) are,it is a crime for a Northerner to be president of Ghana.As if Ghana is for their useless grandfathers who kicked againt Ghana´s freedom from Britain colonial rule. Isn´t it a shame that a few dirty tribal bigots and good for nothing fake lawyers could be taking us for granted for all these years,preventing investments,inciting a foreign country,the Ivory Coast to go to war against the same country that they want to rule? The verdict will surely come and Akufo Addo, the most dangerous character that Ghana has ever had so far, would go dowm in history as such.I did not vote for Akufo Addo and will not allow my vote to be thrown away in his favour. You guys can continue dreaming.Ghana is for all Ghanaians.Ghana is not for Akufo Addo and his drug dealing family memmbers.We shall all sort it out squarely.We are all men! We are patiently waiting!

FM 12 years ago

Amoo-Asante your article does make an integral read thanks to your subtle play of words. It is rather unfortunate that you choose to be bias with your analysis of your the options you submit. Clearly you have displayed which ...
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Amoo-Asante your article does make an integral read thanks to your subtle play of words. It is rather unfortunate that you choose to be bias with your analysis of your the options you submit. Clearly you have displayed which political divide you belong to. Congratulations!!!
A. M. M. WESTWOOD-----FADAMA 12 years ago

IT better to tell the truth and see heaven than to tell lies and go to hell.Thank you.

IT better to tell the truth and see heaven than to tell lies and go to hell.Thank you.
john ansah 12 years ago

this person has contradicted himself, how can you ask the SC Judges to be decisive but yet you make your own suggestions to them?

this person has contradicted himself, how can you ask the SC Judges to be decisive but yet you make your own suggestions to them?
Dagabie 12 years ago

Why ONLY polling stations Pink Sheets WON by President MAHAMA as TENDERED IN the Supereme COURT by the Petitioners(NPP LAWYERS) were NOT signed by the EC offials? and
without giving any reasons(comments) on those PINK SHEETS ...
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Why ONLY polling stations Pink Sheets WON by President MAHAMA as TENDERED IN the Supereme COURT by the Petitioners(NPP LAWYERS) were NOT signed by the EC offials? and
without giving any reasons(comments) on those PINK SHEETS?

Why were those WON by Nana Akoffo Addo signed?

The Supereme Court should NOTE this carefully.
NOAH 12 years ago

ALL YOU ARE PROPOSING CAN ONLY OCCUR IN YOUR DREAMS.YOU SEE HOW BIAS YOU ARE IN YOUR ANALISIS?.TO YOU THE SC.CAN ONLY BE DECISIVE AND GIVE JUSTICE ONLY WHEN IT DECLARES AKUFFO ADDO WINNER.

ALL YOU ARE PROPOSING CAN ONLY OCCUR IN YOUR DREAMS.YOU SEE HOW BIAS YOU ARE IN YOUR ANALISIS?.TO YOU THE SC.CAN ONLY BE DECISIVE AND GIVE JUSTICE ONLY WHEN IT DECLARES AKUFFO ADDO WINNER.
Jato.P 12 years ago

Your idea of the SC being bold is only when the decision goes in favour of the NPP. What kind of logic is this? We all agree that no election is perfect and what this petition has done is to bring out the mistakes for correct ...
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Your idea of the SC being bold is only when the decision goes in favour of the NPP. What kind of logic is this? We all agree that no election is perfect and what this petition has done is to bring out the mistakes for correction in the next election. I can bet my last pesewa that even after this court ruling, there is no guarantee that the next election will not record some irregularities, mistakes, etc
NAA4U 12 years ago

MR ARTICLE, HOW DO YOU DEFINE THE DECISIVENESS OF THE SUPREME COURT? IS IT BY RULING FOR YOUR PARTY OR NOT? IF IT IS BY RULING FOR YOUR PARTY THEN I AM BOLD TO TELL YOU THEN THAT THE SUPREME COURT IN YOUR CASE, WILL NOT BE D ...
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MR ARTICLE, HOW DO YOU DEFINE THE DECISIVENESS OF THE SUPREME COURT? IS IT BY RULING FOR YOUR PARTY OR NOT? IF IT IS BY RULING FOR YOUR PARTY THEN I AM BOLD TO TELL YOU THEN THAT THE SUPREME COURT IN YOUR CASE, WILL NOT BE DECISIVE BECAUSE YOU CANNOT DISENFRANCHISE OVER 4MILLION VOTES TO SATISFY ONE PERSON
Whatever 12 years ago

Partisan propaganda material like this article would be rejected as an example of the decisiveness of the supreme court. The writer, an obvious NPP fanatic, thinks he can hide his bias under such pathetic subtly partisan rhet ...
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Partisan propaganda material like this article would be rejected as an example of the decisiveness of the supreme court. The writer, an obvious NPP fanatic, thinks he can hide his bias under such pathetic subtly partisan rhetoric with its attending deceptive footnotes
The Sentinel 12 years ago

A superfluous insidious, hypocritic suprcilious chaff in fruitless attempt to influence public opinion.
BOLDNESS FOR..??? NAAJ4 and others have said all!

Does this little howler monkey thinks he can, with his stupid subte ...
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A superfluous insidious, hypocritic suprcilious chaff in fruitless attempt to influence public opinion.
BOLDNESS FOR..??? NAAJ4 and others have said all!

Does this little howler monkey thinks he can, with his stupid subterfuge, influence the judges?? What an insult to the intelligence of the forumers!

Beats me

What a shame and sham

The Sentinel
The Sentinel 12 years ago

(A REPEAT WITH TYPO CORRECTIONS)

A superfluous insidious, hypocritic supercilious chaff in fruitless attempt to influence public opinion.
BOLDNESS FOR..??? NAAJ4 and others have said it all!

Does this little howler mon ...
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(A REPEAT WITH TYPO CORRECTIONS)

A superfluous insidious, hypocritic supercilious chaff in fruitless attempt to influence public opinion.
BOLDNESS FOR..??? NAAJ4 and others have said it all!

Does this little howler monkey thinks he can, with his stupid subterfuge, influence the judges?? What an insult to the intelligence of the forumers!

Beats me

What a shame and sham

The Sentinel

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