Spokespersons for lawyers of the petitioner in the ongoing
election petition hearing have said the decision by the Supreme Court to strike
out only five paragraphs out of the 23 that the respondents were asking the
court to remove from Rojo Mettle
Nunoo’s statement, is a victory for them.
A former
Deputy Attorney General Dr Dominic Ayine told the press after
proceedings on Friday February 5 that “They (respondents) were seeking removal
of 23 paragraphs” but the court removed only five. This is “victory to us”, he
said.
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The Supreme
Court has struck out five paragraphs of the witness statement of Rojo Mettle
Nunoo.
The paragraphs
that have been struck out are 4, 5, 6, 7 and 18.
P4: Claims
that the EC Chair did not perform her duties as required by law prior to the
declaration of the 2020 presidential results
P5: A request
to make available a video recording of happenings in the EC strong room to
confirm his [Rojo Mettle] claims of what transpired.
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P6: Claims
that some machines in the strong failed to work at some point and that the fax
transmission was slow.
P7: Claims Dr.
Sereboe Quaicoe from time to time brought into the strong
room documents he claimed to be regional collation sheets without them knowing
where he was getting them from.
P18: Claims
that with regard to Northern Region, two different summary sheets were brought
into the strong room and that the original sheets will be required to
authenticate the results.
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Lawyer for the
2nd Respondent in the ongoing election petition hearing, Mr Akoto
Ampaw asked the court to strike out 23 paragraphs of the witness statement
of Mr Mettle Nunoo, the third witness of the petitioner.
However, the court after listening to the counter-argument of Tsatsu Tsikata,
struck out only 5 Paragraphs.
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