NDC demands formal probe into 7 ‘alien’ boxes of pink sheets

The respondents in the ongoing election petition at the Supreme Court have resolved to formally write to accounting firm KPMG to investigate what they have described as the strange appearance of seven alien boxes of pink sheets at the court’s registry.

Spokesperson for the respondents’ legal team, Nana Ato Dadzie told XYZ News after Tuesday's hearing that: “…We are also going to file a formal report to them so that they investigate and report on the circumstances of the seven additional boxes of pink sheets”.

The respondents said they were befuddled by what they described as the sudden increase in the number of boxes from 24, as of the time an inventory was taken, to 31.

They suspect the seven additional boxes had been stuffed with pink sheets and smuggled into the court’s registry to shore up the petitioners’ evidence.

The court, on Tuesday May 21, 2013 dismissed a request by Tsatsu Tsikata, Lead Counsel for the governing National Democratic Congress for an expansion of control mechanisms regarding the auditing of the pink sheets.

The President of the nine-member panel of Justices, William Atuguba, after conferring with the other Bench members, ruled that Mr. Tsikata could forward any reservations he had concerning the audit, to the referee after the process rather than interrupt it.