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Opinions of Friday, 24 May 2013

Columnist: Sarpong, Justice

Tsatsu Lied To The Supreme Court

Tsatsu The Ex-Convict Lied To The Supreme Court

A chief I used to carry his stool to Mansyia Palace who treated me as his own son once told his own biological son that, all liars are thieves, murderers and Rapists and his reason was that,people lie to cover a real crime or there would have been no reason to lie and I have come to realise that what he said is a reality with my experience in life having observed many times people lie to hide something they have done that goes against the norms of society and Tsatsu has convinced me that, his conviction as a felon for stealing from people of Ghana was the right decision if at his advance age this man can stand infront of nine noble Judges and lied that inventory of twenty four boxes was taken infront of all parties concerned when he knew perfectly well that such an event never took place. According to Tsatsu

"My Lords, as at Thursday, when preparations were being made for counting to begin, the boxes at the registry were 24. This was confirmed by our representatives and the referees when they went to registry. However, My Lords on Monday, the 24 boxes had increased to 31, and it is, therefore, obvious that the exhibits in the custody of the registry have been compromised”, Tsatsu Tsikata stated.In his opinion It is a matter bothering on criminality... My lord we cannot discount criminality from the process of achieving justice."

Where is the record to prove that the initial count of boxes amounted to 24? If an inventory of the boxes were taken, would it not be the Accounting firm KPMG which has been charged to do the counting the one to have the record and that can confirm what Tsatsu has accused the NPP and the officials of the court for doing? Tsatsu said his Representatives and KPMG counted 24 boxes but KPMG has come out to deny that story.Now let us hear it from the people who supposedly did the counting.

"XYZ News can confirm that international accounting and auditing firm, KPMG, did not take an initial inventory of the number of boxes containing pink sheets (primary electoral records) in the custody of the Supreme Court’s Registry before it started auditing the sheets. A Senior Partner with KPMG, Joseph Winful, told XYZ News in an interview on Wednesday May 22, 2013 that it was not part of their mandate to take an inventory of the boxes of pink sheets.Mr. Winful said: “No we didn’t, it was for the simple reason that whatever we do must be stated in the scope of work we are supposed to do”."

This is a clear case of Tsatsu knowing that there was no official count of boxes by the KPMG and told a fib to the court without his mentor Justice Atuguba who has been treating Tsatsu as a King without even asking him for a proof of such count. Why did the court not ask Tsatsu to prove that there were 24 boxes counted and signed by all the parties as he alleged in his submission despite the fact that Petitioners Lawyer Addison told the court that what Tsatsu said was not true?

According to Mr Addison,it was obvious that somebody had a sinister agenda to deprive the petitioners from pursuing their case and also an attempt to delay the process agreed upon by the parties.Mr Addison said the attempt was one of the cooked-up stories of the respondents because he was unaware that an inventory had been taken of the boxes at the registry of the court. Why did Tsatsu and Lithur come up with this lie about the boxes have gone from 24 boxes to 31? These people are so confused even they forgot they have told their INFORMER mouthpiece of NDC Owner Koku Anyidoho writing under the pseudonym, Margaret Jackson and Nana Akua Tweneboah Koduah that, the initial count of boxes was 10 which has gone up to 17 and Koku used that information to write an article under the heading " Stop Thief! Somebody Bloats Pink Sheets" in which he wrote,

"Many wondered why the Judicial Secretary of the SC will rebuff the National Security from protecting the pink sheets when it is this same outfit which provides top notch security to members of the Supreme Court. But the fears of many people were confirmed yesterday when the counting of the pink sheets was suspended abruptly when the respondents in the SC challenge of the 2012 Presidential results realized that the boxes with the pink sheets exhibits have increased from 10 to 17."

The court if it wants to be taken seriously should call Tsatsu and ask him why he intentionally told the court something he knew was not the truth and demanded remedy from the court. Now talk about somebody going to equity with dirty hands and Tsatsu's face will pop up. The Court should sanction Tsatsu for lying and if possible ban him. Tsatsu should not have been allowed to conduct the cross examination anyway for being an ex-convict even if the law does not stipulates that since this case is a landmark one that demands we should have people with pristine characters to adjudicate the case and not thieves and liars and Tsatsu would not have passed that threshold.

Justice Sarpong

(CARDINAL of TRUTH)