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Petition Not Budget Hearing Of Parliament For Jean Mensah To Come And Justify Her Budget – Oppong Nkrumah
Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah, one of the spokespersons for the 2nd Respondent in the ongoing Election Petition at the Supreme Court has stated that there’s no reason for the 1st respondent, Madam Jean Mensah to mount the witness box to be cross-examined.
According to him the petitioner has failed to name specific lapses in the 2020 Elections rather have resorted to employing propagandist tactics to seek the court to allow Jean Mensah to be cross-examined by John Mahama’s legal team.
“This is not [a] budget hearing of parliament that the EC must come and justify its budget. You have come to court with a specific petition and the onus of proof is on you to show to the court that this is the basic case that someone needs questions to answer,” Oppong Nkrumah told the press after proceedings on Monday.
“You cannot resort to propaganda answers that it’s in the interest of all Ghanaians” for the EC chair to mount the witness box when there is no clear reason for her to do so.”
Referencing the 2013 election petition he said “In the 2013 Election Petition, the Electoral Commission mounted the witness box because the Petitioner came to court with results of about 11 polling stations, pink sheets, to back same which are all infractions and strike them out. The Petitioner in 2013 mounted the witness box to make his case and that the EC had a case to respond to.”
