POLITICS

The minority in parliament is demanding the immediate dissolution of the Covid-19 technical team put together by the government to tackle the pandemic. According to the NDC MPs, the recent surge in cases speaks to the incompetence of the team, hence, the need for it to be dissolved. Addressing the media minority spokesperson on health Kwabena Minta Akandor argued the ...

Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, a leading member of the NPP has lashed out at Tsatsu Tsikata, the Lead Counsel for the Petitioner in the ongoing Election Petition at the Supreme Court that, he should admit that he has been outsmarted by Counsels for the 1st and 2nd Respondents. According to him, Tsatsu Tsikata does not expect the Respondents to make their case on a ...

Third witness for the petitioner in the ongoing election petition hearing, Mr Rojo Mettle-Nunoo, has insisted that the Chair of the 1st Respondent, the Electoral Commission (EC) Jean Mensa, is fully aware that she instructed the representatives of the petitioner in the string room to leave before the announcement of the final election results. During cross-examination by the lawyer for the EC, Mr ...

Kwesi Pratt Jnr, the Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper has questioned what informed the president’s directive on private funerals with a maximum of 25 mourners. “Funerals are being organised in the churches at church services where you have 200, 300, 400 people congregating. So, that restriction of funerals to 25 people, how does it apply when the funerals can ...

The announcement by the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) that the public debt stock as at the end of November 2020 has risen to GH¢286.9 billion is once again the subject of public debate about prudent management of the public debt stock. The figure represents 74.4% of Ghana’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The sustainability of ...

The third witness of the petitioner in the ongoing election petition at the Supreme Court is expected to be cross-examined by lawyers for President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and the Electoral Commission. Robert Joseph Mettle-Nunoo, the third witness for John Dramani Mahama on Friday had five out of his 32 points in his witness statement struck out. After oral arguments and some objections raised by ...

The Minority National Democratic Congress (NDC) in Parliament has accused government of using its powers to form the electoral college instead of allowing Districts Assemblies to nominate two persons for the election of members of the Council of State. According to them, there were situations where the acting MMDCEs and Presiding members have constituted themselves as the two representatives of ...

Chief Justice Kwesi Anin-Yeboah today cautioned lead lawyer for second respondent in the ongoing election petition, Lawyer Akoto Ampaw, over interjections when members of the bench are speaking. “Counsel, is it not a practice that if a judge is speaking counsel should keep quiet?” the CJ asked as the lawyer sought to continue a submission when the CJ was making ...

Lead Counsel for the petitioners in the ongoing election petition hearing, Tsatsu Tsikata, is making a case for video recordings of happenings in the strong room of the 1st Respondent, the Electoral Commission (EC) during last year’s elections, to be played in court to support the witness statement of Mr Rojo Mettle Nunoo, one of the petitioner’ witnesses. Tsatsu objected ...

A video of the New Patriotic Party’s Campaign Chairman for the 2020 general elections, Peter MacManu, which has resurfaced, seems to suggest some iota of truth in claims made by witnesses for the petitioner, in the ongoing election petition hearing at the Supreme Court. One of the contentious portions of the petitioner’s witness statement claims that the electoral agents of John ...