Per GhanaWeb’s monitoring, there was an intense exchange between two members of the bar during the Tuesday, February 23, 2021, edition of Okay FM’s morning show Adi Akye Ebia.
This was after a member of
President Nana Addo Dankwa
Akufo-Addo’s communication team in the ongoing presidential Election
Petition case, Henry Nana Boakye (Nana B); whiles making submissions, accused
lawyer Tsatsu Tsikata, lead counsel of petitioner John Dramani Mahama, of attempting to deliberately mislead the
judges sitting on the case.
Lawyer Baba Jamal who is on the
petitioner’s communication team, called in to register his displeasure about
the manner in which Nana B was mudslinging the venerable Tsikata.
But Henry Nana Boakye retorted
that Tsikata in his numerous attempts to convince the seven-member panel to
allow the petitioner reopen his case, did so by deliberately quoting an
incomplete version of section 72 of the Evidence Act.
“When I say he sought to mislead
the court, I am not attacking the person. If you read the second respondents’
affidavit in opposition to the petitioner’s motion for review of the ruling of
the Supreme Court, we have stated clearly that Mr Tsatsu
Tsikata sought to mislead the court by leaving that critical portion out,”
he stated.
Nana Boakye who is also the
National Youth Organiser of the ruling New Patriotic Party insisted that he
rather sought to point out the fact that Mr Tsikata deliberately quoted the law
without quoting it in its entirety and that was calculated to lead the bench
astray.
Listen to the exchange between the two lawyers below:
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