NDC behaving like pampered children - Addison

Lead Counsel for the Petitioners in the election results challenged at the Supreme Court, Philip Addison has accused the respondents’ legal team of behaving like “pampered children”.

Mr. Addison flung the tag at his legal rivals in open court on Tuesday May 21, 2013 during an argument over an allegation by the respondents that the auditing process of pink sheets tendered in evidence had been “compromised”.

Lead Counsel for the Third Respondent, Tsatsu Tsikata, argued in court that the respondents doubted the genuineness of the process due to the discovery of seven alien boxes stuffed with pink sheets at the court’s registry.

Mr. Tsikata imputed criminality against the petitioners over the “compromised” auditing process.

He, therefore, suggested that the control mechanism in carrying out the auditing process should be expanded so as to ensure a clean count.

The petitioners’ lead counsel, however, got irked by the protest from the respondents and described them as behaving like “children who have been pampered”.

He explained: “My Lords whenever any matter is going against them, then they decline, then they pull back…that is again the situation we have here”.

International accounting firm KPMG started auditing the pink sheets on Monday, but the respondents raised red flags alleging that additional seven alien boxes of pink sheets were added to the original 24 thus bloating the number of boxes to 31.