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Supreme Court To Tony Lithur, "Cut The Crap Out"

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  • Kwao 11 years ago

    I still don't understand the sense in what Tony Lithur did. Clearly an attempt to delay the process. Kudos to the Supreme Court Judges.

  • OYOKOBA 11 years ago

    Kwao, I can get the strategy of Lithur, that is he came to court thinking he will flip the tables on Bawumia and accuse him of dabbling in at least one irregularity that the NPP accuses the EC of doing: double counting or dup ...
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  • Mahama 11 years ago

    If the NDC thinks we are joking, then they will laugh at the wrong side of their mouth. Justice will surely be done.

  • insight to the bone 11 years ago

    pepeni can not be trusted period , in this world today when Muslims and their undercover agents disguised as Christians have the agenda to destroy all virtues and values we uphold we must be vigilant and not be deceived. Bost ...
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  • Asante Gyeabour 11 years ago

    Unless one is an idiot or fool soldier, the foolish conduct of Lithur for deliberately wasting everybody's time for repeating same question for about five hours clearly proves my point that the respondents have no defense. An ...
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  • CARDINAL 11 years ago

    Mr Asante, you are right about the court allowing NDC as a Respondent because Mahama is representing NDC interest.

    Are you aware President Mahama has assigned his interest to Asiedu Nketiah to represent him on the Witness ...
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  • Nana Tutugyagu-USA 11 years ago

    They want to use every means to delay the court case. In fact, it was very very annoyed to watch this so called lawyer repeating the same question over and over.
    I am grade that the SC has put a stop to this nonsense. What t ...
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  • Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 11 years ago

    SARPONG, I am assuming it's you signing in as CARDINAL. Of late, LONTO-BOY has disappeared completely from Ghanaweb. I have not seen his comment/s on Ghanaweb for weeks now.

    Is he ok and has he given up on Ghanaweb? Give m ...
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  • Francis C. Quainoo 11 years ago

    You are absolutely right, brother OYOKOBA. I wouldn't be wrong in asserting that most Legal Practitioners withing the NDC perhaps went to school just to take Exams, instead of Studying the LAW.

    A good Lawyer is the one tha ...
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  • Tweneboah-koduah 11 years ago

    do not know what this guy sarpong is talking about by bring US justices to this discussions. He must be living in the fool paradise because Tony lithur-lawyer for Mahama has already has made his point. may be you did not unde ...
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  • Ghana 11 years ago

    Why is it that it is always people like you who can't even express themselves that want to be heard? Go back to JSS and learn English.

  • Jb-Boob 11 years ago

    The truth will come to light and the thieves will soon be exposed. I think if the petitioners win their case, It will be a great disgrace to the Electoral Commission and NDC. All the leaders of electoral commission are corrup ...
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  • Bonso 11 years ago

    Shocking! The lawyer of Ghana's well known thief, Woyome, is the same lawyer of President Mahama in this Supreme Court case

    Lawyer of National fraudsters!

  • akufo photos 11 years ago

    When will I see a ghanian that have common sense of reasoning

  • Sule 11 years ago

    Foolish ndc lawyer

  • Sule 11 years ago

    Foolish ndc lawyer

  • Sule 11 years ago

    Foolish ndc lawyer

  • Nanaba 11 years ago

    Hopefully Lithur will get the message from the SC and move on.

  • Sule 11 years ago

    Foolish ndc lawyer

  • Sule 11 years ago

    Foolish ndc lawyer

  • KOFI / LONDON 11 years ago

    The Hon.Judges are using the constitution judiciously and not the ndc party constitution full of balloony. I salute the Judges.

  • Bissy 11 years ago

    Bravo Supreme court Justices for the wonderful work you are doing. You are really a courageous bunch handling this case. God bless you all.

  • SAMMY ALATA 11 years ago

    KOFI SALUTE THE JUDGES RIGHT TO THE END WHEN THEY READ THE FINAL DECISION

  • wa 11 years ago

    big fool u r full of rubbes go n fix ur life and stop ur security job in texas

  • Mr Mister 11 years ago

    Security job in Texas is better than toilet carrier masquerading as President.

  • CARDINAL 11 years ago

    Listen to this savannah cow living on welfare in roach infested Tracy Towers in Bronx, New York at a studion apartment that I will not even let my dog live in at Frisco, Texas.

  • princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

    CARDINAL"" Do you know the bulls only screw the cows once a year,that's how they are mad cows in the Bronx"
    Your dog was in the Tracy Towers in the Bronx kicking ass,when the referee rang the Bell,he went to Maxwell Jumah's ...
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  • kofi opoku, 11 years ago

    IS THAT ALL YOU CAN WRITE? JUST APPRECIATE THE PEOPLE WHO ARE TO WRITE ALL THEIR SIX FACULTIES AT WORK. I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF YOU KNOW THE FACULTIES I'M TALKING ABOUT. JUST HAVE A NICE DAY.

  • CITIZEN ONE 11 years ago

    COMEDIES...BODIABOR...OSOFO DADZIE...TYPICAL GHANAIAN AKAN MOVIE...JOKERS EXTRAORDINARE

    AS FOR GHANAIANS, WHEN THEY COPY SOMETHING, THEY EVEN OVERDO IT MORE THAN THE ORGINATORS:

    RELIGION
    FETISH
    ENGLISH
    POLITICS
    DEMO ...
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  • Ghanaian Patriot 11 years ago

    Are you on drugs? Some of you assholes need to be dumped at the asylums because you have loose screws.

  • Nana Bonsu, Boston, USA 11 years ago

    Awurade akasa! That cross examination was so boring my 13-year old son asked why Tony Lithur was repeating the same questions 38 times in 6 hours. Was that actually a strategy or buying time for the man at the Jubilee house? ...
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  • JB-JIBOLO 11 years ago

    I AM VERY CONVINCED THE CASE WILL END WELL. KUDOS TO THE JUDGES.

  • princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

    A young attorney who had taken over his father's practice rushed home elated one night.
    "Dad, listen," he shouted, "I've finally settled that old Cardinal suit about the Guinea fowl and Dumsor,Dumsor Hooligans"

    "Settled i ...
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  • Kojo Kukurudu 11 years ago

    Which of the two is fighting for the poor in Ghana, the NPP or the NDC?
    COUNTRY MEN THOSE OF YOU WHO WERE NOT BORN DURING THE BOMB THROWING DAYS MAY NOT KNOW WHAT THE NPP represents-think of Kulungugu and what nots.We are su ...
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  • DYB 11 years ago

    Cry baby. You are behaving like a loser. This issue is about electoral fraud perpetrated by your heroic greedy bastards. If you want to fight for the poor in your village, pray for NPP to win and collect our monies from Woyom ...
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  • What? 11 years ago

    How qualified are you pocket lawyers to comment on proceedings going on in the Supreme Court. NPP idiots cry foul when things do not go their way. After critizing about Judge Atuguba sitting on the case cose he is uncle to Pr ...
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  • Mahama 11 years ago

    You are an idiot that is why you are an Ndc supporter. Do you think the decision to rein Tony Lithur in was taken by Judge Atugiba alone? How stupid are you ndc supporters? Atuguba name is used here because he is the Presiden ...
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  • Kwadwo 11 years ago

    This was exactly your point in your previous piece. You tried telling one Dennis Awah that the court had had it with Tony Lithur and that his crap was not going to be tolerated. I tried doing same in my comments, but to no av ...
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  • Tweneboah-koduah 11 years ago

    I do not know what this guy sarpong is talking about by bring US justices to this discussions. He must be living in the fool paradise because Tony lithur-lawyer for Mahama has already has made his point. may be you did not un ...
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  • CARDINAL 11 years ago

    "To punished"? "will be annul"?

    Illiterate fool, what do you know about law? You can hardly write your stolen name let alone put two sentences together.

  • KOKI 11 years ago

    Should your divergent opinion warrant this insult on Sarpong? Tweneboah I thought you already understand this attitude is primitive and unproductive!

    You must rather appreciate people of Sarpong's calibre who exposes many ...
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  • FOSTER 11 years ago

    IF YOU SCRATCH AN NPP MAN LIKE SARPONG, YOU WILL FIND A SUBVERSIONIST!

  • kofi opoku, 11 years ago

    YOU ARE ONE OF FEW WRITERS I ALWAYS WANT TO READ WHAT YOU WRITE. YOUR WRITINGS AND COMMENTS MAKE A LOT OF SENSE TO ME. WHEN IN A BAD MOOD OR SAD I READ SOMETHING FROM ASIEDU NKETIA, TONY AIDOO, BABA JAMAIL AND MR RABBIT TEETH ...
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  • sad Ghanaian 11 years ago

    with no political stands....i have noticed that most comments made by NDC members are mostly harsh or insulting which must stop...follow politics to make ur country a better place not to support people to steal from your coun ...
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  • Concerned Citizen 11 years ago

    It is the right thing for the SC to put Lithur on leash. The guy was so boring that he made the law profession looked so easy and stupid.

  • wala 11 years ago

    It's great this lawyer has been stopped of his nonsense.

  • wala 11 years ago

    It's great this lawyer has been stopped of his nonsense.

  • BOY KOFI 11 years ago

    Tony Lithur simply wanted the whole world to know that the NPP's so called mountain of evidence is just bogus.Wait for the EC to come and rubbish it again then you will understand why Nana Addo lost the presidential elections ...
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  • CARDINAL 11 years ago

    Actually if you are smart, you will not have said this. He has really damaged MAHAMA and Ndc case. If your hand is in the mouth of a dog, you don't make it mad. Lithur has incured the wrath of the Judges and for them to take ...
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  • BOY KOFI 11 years ago

    Prez Mahama has no problem with Bawumia or anybody for that matter.He has won the elections and sworn in as legitimate president long time ago.What's your problem?Now bring Nana Addo himself into the dock and let him explain ...
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  • CARDINAL 11 years ago

    You cannot dance to anybody's jamboree. What time do you have to dance when you are doing "crash course" in French to get your asylum petition to stay in France approved? Jumping on a moving train to England is for spring chi ...
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  • BOY KOFI 11 years ago

    I told you that NPP will lose the elections long time ago.I said the Free SHS will kill Nana Addo and here we are.All these court comedy will not change anything.The whole wide world have seen that NPP's so called mountain of ...
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  • CARDINAL 11 years ago

    You are calling a world reknown Economist evidence backed by statistics stupid lies? You dumb asylum seeker in France ghetto will not even be hired as a houseboy for Dr Bawumiah.

  • BOY KOFI 11 years ago

    Call your boss Nana Addo,the cheap politician to explain how Afari Gyan and Mahama cheated him and what was he doing by then?

  • Gyambibi 11 years ago

    If President Mahama has no problem because he won the elections and has been sworn in as legitimate president a long time ago, then what is he doing in court? Why does he not ignore the petition.

    You have to understand tha ...
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  • Kanawu Kumankuma. 11 years ago

    NPP is being pampered by the judges perhaps on purpose (but at the risk of blatantly and glaringly bending the rules of court) because the NPP is a dying Elephant which is now kicking its legs in thin air.
    Afterall, the ch ...
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  • BOY KOFI 11 years ago

    I want Nana Addo himself to come and explain to the whole wide world how he won the elections.As for me,I know that he lost the elections long before Dec.2012.His campaign was very poor like he did in 2008 against Prez Mills. ...
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  • DYB 11 years ago

    Boy, you can go and hang yourself, or better still, go and fall into a shit pot. It's obvious you and your NDC fool soldiers are obsessed with Nana Addo. Be careful else you may get a heart attack.

  • Still NPP 11 years ago

    I love Nana Ato Dadzie's part,we are avidly looking forward to his turn for the cross examination,the intelligent Dr Bawumia is soo looking forward to that so bring it on.................

  • OTI AKENTENG_-JAPAN 11 years ago

    DONT SAY ATUGUBA IS BAD TOMORROW.WE HAVE TO ACCEPT THE VERDICT.NOW IS GOOD PROCCESS LATER WE TURN TO SAY BAD JOB AND THAT IS GHANA-MAN MENTALITY.

  • CARDINAL 11 years ago

    Did you see anywhere I have mentioned Atuguba's name? This decision to Tony Lithur to stop his mode of conducting cross examination was taken by the nine Judges and not Atuguba alone.

    As a matter of fact, Atuguba might hav ...
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  • Kwobia-Toronto 11 years ago

    It's called stragedy.The SC quickly got the picture and helped every one along with it's
    directive.

  • Iwan 11 years ago

    when they signed up 327 drunks from Asiedu Nketiah's village. YOU IDIOT how there you refer to people whose votes you are claiming as drunks. Stupid fool.

  • Tokyo 11 years ago

    NDC. All they do is to Bully, scream and intimidate people even their lawyers go the same way. Idiotic party !!

  • KK Konadu 11 years ago

    The whole case is a waste of time. This is how educated Ghanaian opposition show of thier education. Prof Mills could have done the same to Kuffour but Prof Mills allowed sense and respect to privail. From now onwards, electi ...
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  • Samuel 11 years ago

    in 2004 the ndc was given one and a half years to prepare and file a petition, but they could not. it tells you that they had no evidence; trust me if they had they'd have gone to court. tried as they did, Sowu and his guys c ...
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  • KK Konadu 11 years ago

    What ever happens as the result of this court case will leave politics in Ghana very divisive and polarise. Mostly after elections, the winner is suppose to unify the country and develop the country. That is going to be hard ...
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  • Whatever 11 years ago

    How pathetic? NPP opened their mouth in open court and uttered that thousands of pink sheets were fake. Now that those pink sheets are now being unloaded in open court, why are they pointing to their watch? Is this not what t ...
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  • Whatever 11 years ago

    NPP should thank the supreme court for demonstrating a knee-jeck reaction to the embarrassment Bawumia endured at Lithur's hand. Next time they will think twice when packing lies into suit cases and filing them as affidavit

  • GHANAVIA 11 years ago

    Miserable you; what a stack illiterate?

  • CARDINAL 11 years ago

    Is it not sad Whatever doesn't understand the court process. If he think Lithur is doing the respondents any good for wasting the court time asking 38 same questions for five hours then he needs brain calibration.

    A lawyer ...
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  • Whatever 11 years ago

    Time is NOT the overriding factor in the determination of a dispute in any court? It is EVIDENCE which is. Cutting corners is not part of the judicial process. The last place of adjudication when appeal is not option is not a ...
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  • CARDINAL 11 years ago

    No court in the world will allow anybody to ask the same questions more than ten times let alone 38 times in five hours. Are you telling me if Lithur has 5000 of those kinds of sheets, he should be allowed four months to intr ...
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  • Whatever 11 years ago

    Why can't NPP folks show incontrovertible evidence instead of the utter impatience they're showing. Evidence is what will determine the case, not impatience. As for the trend, it's nothing new because we know what Georgina Wo ...
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  • CARDINAL 11 years ago

    You call being allowed to ask the same question 38 times and getting the same answer 38 times impatience? So you want the court to just sit there and allow this reckless lawyer to ask the same question 5000 times if they hav ...
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  • DYB 11 years ago

    Justice is not about time wasting but evidence. If you truly enjoyed the stupidity of Tony Lithur, then I can only assume your parents wasted money educating you. For you NDC fool soldiers you don't want the truth but propaga ...
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  • Whatever 11 years ago

    Didn't you see evidence in Tony Lithur's hands? so for the sake of time, you wanted him to hide some? Do you want evidence or you want time, NPP? I can understand the nonsense you've written

  • yaw gyan boateng 11 years ago

    Do you understand the law better than the nine justices? They are using the law to tell Lithur to move on and stop the childish prank. Holding pink sheets that have no bearing on the final tally is not evidence.

  • The Patriot 11 years ago

    Justice delayed is justice denied and ndc delay tactics has been stopped. What the court is saying is that, the respondents should show how the same two pink sheet from the same polling station has affected the mathematical a ...
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  • Whatever 11 years ago

    Evidence determines case, not time. So allow Tony Lithur to present the evidence in toto and and in open court. using memo to present evidence will amount to justice not seen to be done.

  • yaw gyan boateng 11 years ago

    The Judges are not stopping him to stop submitting his so called evidence but is telling him to tend them in at one time to avert time wasting to deny justice to the petitioners. The Judges also asked him to tell them if the ...
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  • Whatever 11 years ago

    Why do you want a material evidence that is confuting a witness testimony to submitted in secret. Is it a memo? If Bawumia didn't want to waste time then he shouldn't have made those loaded allegations. It takes time to unloa ...
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  • yaw gyan boateng 11 years ago

    How can you call it a secret after asking the same thing 38 times for five hours? Some of you are just tone deaf and not worth anybody's time.

  • Kwadwo 11 years ago

    With the Court's directive, it has asserted control of the speed of the trial. I hope the Respondents' attorneys used the week end to review thoroughly the mountain of statistical evidence filed by the Petitioners and do bett ...
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  • BOY KOFI 11 years ago

    We shall see what is a credible and avalanche of fake documents.Tony Lithur has no problem with Bawumia.NPP should now proof to the world of how EC and NDC stole the verdict of 2012 general elections.As for now Bawumia's evid ...
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  • CARDINAL 11 years ago

    The word is prove not proof and if you don't know, lawyer Addison will have the chance to set the record straight with Dr Bawumiah in a recross-examination.

    Don't rush, the game has just started and Dr Bawumiah's analysis ...
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  • LARYEAH 11 years ago

    ARE YOU SANE AT ALL? MAYBE THE CAT-MEAT HAS CLOTTED YOUR BRAIN. IDIOT!

  • Kofi Atinga 11 years ago

    Most disgraceful party in ghana's history

  • KWASHIE ADJAH 11 years ago

    MY FRIEND, THE AFRC/P/NDC WAS FORMED TO LOOT THE NATION FOR PERSONAL GAIN OF ITS NEVER-DO-WELL MEMBERS; HIGH AND LOW. IT IS A SHAME, WE ALLOWED ONE POISONED MIND OF GODFATHER JERRY JOHN RAWLINGS TO FORM A CRIMINAL ORGANISATIO ...
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  • ZONGO BOY 11 years ago

    he is full of it

  • ZONGO BOY 11 years ago

    he is full of it

  • ASA 11 years ago

    Lithur was introducing trust which brings into question how diligent were the NPP given the initial errors and this. I think the duty of the respondents is prove that the NPP cannot be trusted to provide the truth and by dupl ...
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  • KEJETIA 11 years ago

    Another fufu reasoning from Kejetia.

  • KETA SCHOOLBOYS 11 years ago

    Thank God it was not made by a Trokosi child molester.

  • TROKOSI 11 years ago

    I will even take Kejetia JSS shoeshineboy over Trokosi PhD child molester when it comes to ingenuity. Trokosi PhD is worth less than Kejetia JSS.