POLITICS

Member of Parliament for South Dayi, Rockson-Nelson Este Kwami Dafeamekpor, has said that the Supreme Court should not have denied the petitioners in the ongoing election petition hearing, access to the documents of the 1st Respondent, the Electoral Commission (EC). He said the 1992 Constitution guarantees the right to information hence, the petitioner should have been allowed to have access to the documents in ...

A judicial officer has been dispatched to ‘police’ 3rd witness of petitioner in the Election Petition hearing, Robert Joseph Mettle Nunoo. This follows some concerns raised by counsel of the 2nd Respondent, Akoto Ampaw who sought to establish the need for the presence of a judicial officer at his location, to ensure fairness. “My Lords, my first concern is whether ...

Robert Joseph (Rojo) Mettle-Nunoo, one of the representatives of the petitioner in the ongoing Election Petition at the ‘strongroom’ of the Electoral Commission (EC), has disclosed that he was misled by some officials at the EC office to sign collation sheets which were certified by his party’s polling agents. In his witness statement submitted to the Supreme Court on Thursday, February 4, ...

Fifteen members of parliament have tested positive for the deadly covid-19 so far since mass testing began last week. Also, 56 parliamentary staff have contracted the virus. The revelation comes after the speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin directed all MPs and staff to mandatorily test for the virus. Following hesitation from some MPs, some of them had their test done ...

“Having regard to her earlier reference to the meeting between the Peace Council and the Petitioner, which she had obviously been briefed about, I took seriously what she said,” Rojo Mettle-Nunoo, the petitioner’s third witness has said in a witness statement to the Supreme Court dated 4 February 2021. Robert Joseph Mettle-Nunoo, one of the witnesses testifying for Petitioner John ...

Some members of parliament who have tested positive for covid-19 are still turning up for work endangering lives of others. The House has consequently warned such MPs will have their names published if the development persists. First Deputy Speaker Joseph Osei-Owusu who presided over the House on Wednesday further cautioned over 50 MPs who are yet to subject themselves to ...

The seven-member Supreme Court panel hearing the 2020 election petition has dismissed a motion by former President John Mahama seeking to inspect some documents of the Electoral Commissions. The six point-motion was asking for the originals of all constituency presidential election results collation forms and summary sheets of all constituencies in Ghana. The court in its ruling among other reasons ...

A seven-member of the Supreme Court panel presided over by Justice Kwasi Anin Yeboah has dismissed a motion for inspection of documents filed by lawyers of the petitioner. The unanimous decision of the panel states that the applicant has not been able to demonstrate that he does not have duplicate copies of those documents. The panel chaired by Chief Justice ...

Parliament has accused President Akufo-Addo of disrespect in his appointments to the Council of state. The House has faulted the President for going public with some category of appointees on the 11-member list without consulting parliament. Per article 89 clause 2(a) of the constitution, appointments of former Chief Justices, IGPs, Chiefs of Defence Staff to the council must be done ...

The second witness of former President John Mahama in the ongoing election petition case Dr. Michael Kpessah-Whyte has told the Supreme Court the chairperson of the Electoral Commission tricked him and his colleague in the EC strong room to convey a message to the petitioner and then declared the results behind them. “I have no reason for lying. When we ...