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• KA 12 years ago

  If I can remember very close to the election there were causes to believe the (espercialy Nana Kunadu) may be illegible after threats of going to court, however this could not have been an excuse for it.

  If I can remember very close to the election there were causes to believe the (espercialy Nana Kunadu) may be illegible after threats of going to court, however this could not have been an excuse for it.

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• KOFI DAMESI 12 years ago

  THE D-DAY WILL COME WHEN THE SUPREME COURT WILL DETERMINE ALL THE FAULTS......

  THE D-DAY WILL COME WHEN THE SUPREME COURT WILL DETERMINE ALL THE FAULTS......

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• Wiliam 12 years ago

  Diaspora party supporters, CPP, NDC, NPP, PPP, PNC, YOU OWE IT TO AFRICA TO DEMONSTRATE LEVEL HEADED PARTISANSHIP. THIS WAY YOU CAN BETTER HELP TO STRENTGHEN OUR THRIVING DEMOCRACY. IN AN ON-GOING COURT CASE, YOU WILL DO WELL ...
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  Diaspora party supporters, CPP, NDC, NPP, PPP, PNC, YOU OWE IT TO AFRICA TO DEMONSTRATE LEVEL HEADED PARTISANSHIP. THIS WAY YOU CAN BETTER HELP TO STRENTGHEN OUR THRIVING DEMOCRACY. IN AN ON-GOING COURT CASE, YOU WILL DO WELL TO RESTRAIN YOURSELVES FROM ISSUING JUDGEMENTAL COMMENTS OVER ISSUES PURELY BEYOND YOUR COMPETENCE AT THIS STAGE! LONG LIVE OUR DEMOCRACY, LONG LIVE RULE OF LAW, LONG LIVE GHANA.

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• BANTAMA APREKU 12 years ago

  This Afari Gyan thought he was next to the President or even above him. I am shocked the way he argues. May be, it is old age! He should have retired. We have more MPs in a Parliament which was already over flowing and over s ...
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  This Afari Gyan thought he was next to the President or even above him. I am shocked the way he argues. May be, it is old age! He should have retired. We have more MPs in a Parliament which was already over flowing and over spending. At the moment public service workers cannot be paid and we have to think of how to satisfy our increased number of corrupt politicians. Credit to Afari.

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• Willam 12 years ago

  He is indepenpent of political pressures/influence, whethern from sitting or former Presidents, Presidential aspirants or party leaders, etc! So in a way agree with you but not with your cynical skin pain twist!!!

  He is indepenpent of political pressures/influence, whethern from sitting or former Presidents, Presidential aspirants or party leaders, etc! So in a way agree with you but not with your cynical skin pain twist!!!

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• JOE 12 years ago

  AFARI GYAN THOUGHT HE WAS THE ONLY LEVEL HEADED PERSON IN GHANA.AT LEAST HE HAS GOT HIS CHALLEGER NOW IN THE PERSON OF DR BAWUMIA. DR BAWUMIA PROWESS TO UNEARTH AND EXPOSE THE DECEITFUL AND CROAKED NATURE OF DR AFARI GYAN IS ...
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  AFARI GYAN THOUGHT HE WAS THE ONLY LEVEL HEADED PERSON IN GHANA.AT LEAST HE HAS GOT HIS CHALLEGER NOW IN THE PERSON OF DR BAWUMIA. DR BAWUMIA PROWESS TO UNEARTH AND EXPOSE THE DECEITFUL AND CROAKED NATURE OF DR AFARI GYAN IS SO OVERWHELMING THAT DR AFARI GYAN WISHES THE EARTH CAN OPEN UP FOR HIM TO GO AND HIDE HIMSELF. BUT NO, THE EVIL THAT MEN DO LIVES AFTER THEM. HIS CITATION DURING HIS DOCTORIAL CONFORMATION IS NOW DEGRADED AND DIMINISHED. DR AFARI GYAN (Se wo ye obiara),YOU'RE NOBODY.

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• TIMEWILLTELL 12 years ago

  It is only the courts that can decide if there was any lie at all. Screaming off the rooftop won't change anything. So please hold you fire and allegations etc.

  It is only the courts that can decide if there was any lie at all. Screaming off the rooftop won't change anything. So please hold you fire and allegations etc.

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• BENONY TONY AMEKUDZI, ESQ. 12 years ago

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  Comment: RE: US PLEASED WITH GHANA !
  
  Author: BENONY TONY AMEKUDZI, ESQ.
  
  Date: 2013-05-12 09:08:16
  
  Comment to: US pleased with Ghana’s political situation
  
  
  
  DEAR H.E.DR.MR.PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA ...
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  Comment: RE: US PLEASED WITH GHANA !
  
  Author: BENONY TONY AMEKUDZI, ESQ.
  
  Date: 2013-05-12 09:08:16
  
  Comment to: US pleased with Ghana’s political situation
  
  
  
  DEAR H.E.DR.MR.PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA & H.E.PRESIDENT OF GHANA JOHN DRAMANI MAHAMA,
  
  TO RESPECTFULLY AND HUMBLY REFER TO THE PUBLICATION BELOW ON THE
  GHANAWEB.COM AND IN VIEW OF OUR CLOSELY FRIENDLY RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN
  UNITED STATES AND GHANA AND ALSO AS INTERNATIONAL LAWYER/LEGAL
  CONSULTANT TO STATE THAT "ELECTIONS ARE NOT HELD ON PINK SHEETS BUT AT
  POLLING STATIONS THROUGH THE BALLOT BOX". THAT THOUGH THE CASE IS STILL
  ONGOING AND I WOULD NOT LIKE TO PREEMPT THE OUTCOME BUT THE EVIDENCE
  ADDUCED IN COURT SO FAR POINTED OUT TO THE FACT THAT "NO MALPRACTICE OR
  ANY WRONG DOING" HAS/HAVE NEVER OCCURRED AT ANY OF THE POLLING STATIONS
  WHERE THE VOTES WERE CASTED. HOWEVER, THE PETITIONERS ALLEGED PETITION
  WAS OR WERE ONLY SURROUNDED BY A PURPORTED ADMINISTRATIVE ERRORS MADE ON
  THE PINK SHEETS THAT THEY PURPORTED MAKING THE ASSUMPTIONS OF
  CALCULATIONS AND ANALYSIS AND BROUGHT THIS FRIVOLOUS, CAPRICIOUS,
  MALICIOUS AND VEXATIOUS PETITION AGAINST A SITTING PRESIDENT OF GHANA
  WHO WON THE 2012 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS. THAT THE PETITIONERS IN THEIR
  PURPORTED ASSUMPTIONS OF ANALYSIS AND CALCULATIONS MADE SERIES AND
  SERIOUS MISTAKES THEMSELVES OF WHICH THE SECOND PETITIONER DR>MAHMOUD
  BAWUMIA WHO IS NOW UNDER CROSS-EXAMINATIONS TOLD THE SUPREME COURT
  ADMITTING MAKING THOSE MISTAKES AND EVEN WENT ON TO SAY THAT "EVERYBODY
  MAKES MISTAKES". THAT THE LEGAL ISSUES INVOLVING THIS RELATED MATTER ARE
  AS FOLLOWS:
  
  (i) WHETHER OR NOT A SITTING PRESIDENT OF GHANA WHILE IN OFFICE CAN BE SUED OR TO BE JOINED TO A LAWSUIT AS DEFENDANT?"
  
  THAT GHANA 1992 CONSTITUTION CHAPTER 008 ARTICLE 57 SECTIONS 4, 5 & 6
  CLEARLY READING ALL THE SECTIONS TOGETHER IN EFFECT PROVIDED THAT " A
  SITTING PRESIDENT OF GHANA WHILE IN OFFICE IS NOT AMENABLE TO ANY COURT
  OF GHANA".
  
  THAT THERE IS A LEGAL PRECEDENT IN THE CASE OF "NEW PATRIOTIC PARTY
  (NPP) VRS. PRESIDENT RAWLINGS & ATTORNEY GENERAL". THAT IN THIS CASE
  THE NPP CHALLENGED THE CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY OF THE PRESIDENT
  APPOINTING THE DISTRICT CHIEF EXECUTIVES". THAT THE SUPREME COURT HELD
  UNANIMOUSLY THAT THE PRESIDENT RIGHTFULLY EXERCISED HIS CONSTITUTIONAL
  AUTHORITY UNDER ARTICLE 57 SECTION 4 OF MAKING SUCH APPOINTMENTS.
  
  THAT IT WAS IN THIS CASE THAT A MEMBER OF THE PANEL RAISED A PRELIMINARY
  OBJECTION "WHETHER A SITTING PRESIDENT OF GHANA WHILE IN OFFICE CAN OR
  COULD BE SUED OR JOINED TO A LAWSUIT AS DEFENDANT?" THAT THE SUPREME
  COURT HELD 3-2 MAJORITY THAT "A SITTING PRESIDENT OF GHANA WHILE IN
  OFFICE CANNOT BE SUED OR JOINED TO A LAWSUIT AS DEFENDANT".
  
  THEREFORE SETTLED THE LEGAL POSITION OF THE QUESTION IN VIEW OF THE
  FIRST PRINCIPLE OF THE RULE OF LAW WHICH PROVIDES THAT "THE SUPREMACY OF
  THE LAW IS AS ADMINISTERED BY THE ORDINARY COURTS OF THE LAND AND IN
  THE INSTANT CASE THE SUPREME COURT OF GHANA AND HAS THEREFORE GIVEN
  EFFECT TO THE LAW AS SUPREME".
  
  IT IS AT THESE RELATED BACKDROP THAT BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT
  ENTERTAINED THE PETITION AGAINST A SITTING PRESIDENT OF GHANA WHILE IN
  OFFICE WHETHER OR NOT A PRELIMINARY OBJECTION HAS BEEN RAISED IT
  BEHOOVES ON THE COURT TO MAKE A DETERMINATION OF THE ISSUE FIRST AND
  FAILURE TO MAKE A DETERMINATION OF THE LEGAL ISSUE OFFENDS BOTH GHANA
  1992 CONSTITUTION ARTICLE 57 SECTIONS 4,5 & 6 , CASE LAW AND THE
  RULE OF LAW, JUSTICE AND FAIR-PLAY.
  
  
  
  (ii) WHETHER OR NOT A PREPARER OR MAKER OF A DOCUMENT WHO MAKES A
  MISTAKE ON THE FACE OF THE RECORD IS THE DUTY OF THE COURT TO CURE SUCH
  DEFECTS IN VIEW OF THE BODY MAKING THE DOCUMENT CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY
  IS SUBJECT TO THE CONSTITUTION ONLY AND ALSO INDEPENDENT AS THE
  JUDICIARY ITSELF?
  
  
  
  IT IS THEREFORE MY RESPECTFUL AND CANDID SUBMISSION THAT AT THE END OF
  IT ALL GHANA SUPREME COURT WOULD DO JUSTICE SINCE I HAVE EVERY TRUST,
  CONFIDENCE AND FAITH IN THE SUPREME COURT THAT THE COURT WOULD DO
  JUSTICE.
  
  RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED.
  
  GOD BLESS AMERICA AND GHANA.
  
  VERY TRULY YOURS,
  
  BENONY TONY AMEKUDZI
  
  INTERNATIONAL LAWYER/LEGAL CONSULTANT
  
  
  
  
  
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  United States is pleased with the on-going
  political situation in Ghana with regards to the current petition
  challenging the outcome of the December 2012 presidential polls in
  court.
  
  
  
  Mr Michael Pelletier, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Public Diplomacy and
  Public Affairs, African Affairs of the US Department of State, said “it
  shows that the institutions are working in Ghana and people have
  confidence in the institutions.”
  
  
  
  Mr Pelletier said this in an interview with the Ghana News Agency at
  the US Department of State building in Washington DC yesterday after
  meeting with 2013 Spring Professional Fellows to address US-Africa
  foreign policy issues.
  
  
  
  Professional Fellows are up and coming and mid-level emerging leaders,
  who are competitively selected from across the globe by partner agencies
  of the US Department of State to come to the US and work with US public
  and private institutions and NGOs with the aim to broaden their
  expertise as well as understanding of American society.
  
  
  
  For this year’s Spring programme, 220 professionals in the areas of
  legislation, economics and media were selected from over 40 countries
  including Ghana, China, Peru, Costa Rica, to participate in the event
  where they spent four weeks working with various US institutions.
  
  
  
  Some people have suggested that, the on-going election petition case at
  the Supreme Court has and or might affect investor confidence in Ghana
  but Mr Pelletier said the election petition case did not affect US-Ghana
  relations in anyway adding that it also did not undermine or cast a
  slur on Ghana’s integrity amongst the investment community in the US.
  
  
  
  He said “you have the laws and the rules and you are just following the laws to address your grievances and that is right.”
  
  
  
  The 2012 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana
  Akufo-Addo, his running mate Dr Mahamudu Bawumia and Chairman of the
  NPP, Jake Obetsebi Lamptey are challenging the outcome of the December
  2012 presidential results at the Supreme Court, and have requested the
  court to annul substantial amount of votes secured by the winner,
  President John Mahama, citing alleged irregularities during the polls.
  
  
  
  Mr Pelletier said the US government would continue to work with the
  Ghana government to promote the welfare of the people in-line with its
  (US government) foreign policy objectives, which included strengthening
  democratic institutions, ensuring rule of law, free press, and promoting
  opportunities in economic growth and development.
  
  
  
  Ms Tara Sonenshine, Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and
  Public Affairs said the Professional Fellows Programme was at the core
  of the US government’s ideology and practicality adding it promoted
  mutual understanding between the US and other peoples across the world.
  
  
  
  Read Article
  
  Comment: RE: US PLEASED WITH GHANA !
  
  Author: BENONY TONY AMEKUDZI, ESQ.
  
  Date: 2013-05-12 09:08:16
  
  Comment to: US pleased with Ghana’s political situation
  
  
  
  DEAR H.E.DR.MR.PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA & H.E.PRESIDENT OF GHANA JOHN DRAMANI MAHAMA,
  
  TO RESPECTFULLY AND HUMBLY REFER TO THE PUBLICATION BELOW ON THE
  GHANAWEB.COM AND IN VIEW OF OUR CLOSELY FRIENDLY RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN
  UNITED STATES AND GHANA AND ALSO AS INTERNATIONAL LAWYER/LEGAL
  CONSULTANT TO STATE THAT "ELECTIONS ARE NOT HELD ON PINK SHEETS BUT AT
  POLLING STATIONS THROUGH THE BALLOT BOX". THAT THOUGH THE CASE IS STILL
  ONGOING AND I WOULD NOT LIKE TO PREEMPT THE OUTCOME BUT THE EVIDENCE
  ADDUCED IN COURT SO FAR POINTED OUT TO THE FACT THAT "NO MALPRACTICE OR
  ANY WRONG DOING" HAS/HAVE NEVER OCCURRED AT ANY OF THE POLLING STATIONS
  WHERE THE VOTES WERE CASTED. HOWEVER, THE PETITIONERS ALLEGED PETITION
  WAS OR WERE ONLY SURROUNDED BY A PURPORTED ADMINISTRATIVE ERRORS MADE ON
  THE PINK SHEETS THAT THEY PURPORTED MAKING THE ASSUMPTIONS OF
  CALCULATIONS AND ANALYSIS AND BROUGHT THIS FRIVOLOUS, CAPRICIOUS,
  MALICIOUS AND VEXATIOUS PETITION AGAINST A SITTING PRESIDENT OF GHANA
  WHO WON THE 2012 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS. THAT THE PETITIONERS IN THEIR
  PURPORTED ASSUMPTIONS OF ANALYSIS AND CALCULATIONS MADE SERIES AND
  SERIOUS MISTAKES THEMSELVES OF WHICH THE SECOND PETITIONER DR>MAHMOUD
  BAWUMIA WHO IS NOW UNDER CROSS-EXAMINATIONS TOLD THE SUPREME COURT
  ADMITTING MAKING THOSE MISTAKES AND EVEN WENT ON TO SAY THAT "EVERYBODY
  MAKES MISTAKES". THAT THE LEGAL ISSUES INVOLVING THIS RELATED MATTER ARE
  AS FOLLOWS:
  
  (i) WHETHER OR NOT A SITTING PRESIDENT OF GHANA WHILE IN OFFICE CAN BE SUED OR TO BE JOINED TO A LAWSUIT AS DEFENDANT?"
  
  THAT GHANA 1992 CONSTITUTION CHAPTER 008 ARTICLE 57 SECTIONS 4, 5 & 6
  CLEARLY READING ALL THE SECTIONS TOGETHER IN EFFECT PROVIDED THAT " A
  SITTING PRESIDENT OF GHANA WHILE IN OFFICE IS NOT AMENABLE TO ANY COURT
  OF GHANA".
  
  THAT THERE IS A LEGAL PRECEDENT IN THE CASE OF "NEW PATRIOTIC PARTY
  (NPP) VRS. PRESIDENT RAWLINGS & ATTORNEY GENERAL". THAT IN THIS CASE
  THE NPP CHALLENGED THE CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY OF THE PRESIDENT
  APPOINTING THE DISTRICT CHIEF EXECUTIVES". THAT THE SUPREME COURT HELD
  UNANIMOUSLY THAT THE PRESIDENT RIGHTFULLY EXERCISED HIS CONSTITUTIONAL
  AUTHORITY UNDER ARTICLE 57 SECTION 4 OF MAKING SUCH APPOINTMENTS.
  
  THAT IT WAS IN THIS CASE THAT A MEMBER OF THE PANEL RAISED A PRELIMINARY
  OBJECTION "WHETHER A SITTING PRESIDENT OF GHANA WHILE IN OFFICE CAN OR
  COULD BE SUED OR JOINED TO A LAWSUIT AS DEFENDANT?" THAT THE SUPREME
  COURT HELD 3-2 MAJORITY THAT "A SITTING PRESIDENT OF GHANA WHILE IN
  OFFICE CANNOT BE SUED OR JOINED TO A LAWSUIT AS DEFENDANT".
  
  THEREFORE SETTLED THE LEGAL POSITION OF THE QUESTION IN VIEW OF THE
  FIRST PRINCIPLE OF THE RULE OF LAW WHICH PROVIDES THAT "THE SUPREMACY OF
  THE LAW IS AS ADMINISTERED BY THE ORDINARY COURTS OF THE LAND AND IN
  THE INSTANT CASE THE SUPREME COURT OF GHANA AND HAS THEREFORE GIVEN
  EFFECT TO THE LAW AS SUPREME".
  
  IT IS AT THESE RELATED BACKDROP THAT BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT
  ENTERTAINED THE PETITION AGAINST A SITTING PRESIDENT OF GHANA WHILE IN
  OFFICE WHETHER OR NOT A PRELIMINARY OBJECTION HAS BEEN RAISED IT
  BEHOOVES ON THE COURT TO MAKE A DETERMINATION OF THE ISSUE FIRST AND
  FAILURE TO MAKE A DETERMINATION OF THE LEGAL ISSUE OFFENDS BOTH GHANA
  1992 CONSTITUTION ARTICLE 57 SECTIONS 4,5 & 6 , CASE LAW AND THE
  RULE OF LAW, JUSTICE AND FAIR-PLAY.
  
  
  
  (ii) WHETHER OR NOT A PREPARER OR MAKER OF A DOCUMENT WHO MAKES A
  MISTAKE ON THE FACE OF THE RECORD IS THE DUTY OF THE COURT TO CURE SUCH
  DEFECTS IN VIEW OF THE BODY MAKING THE DOCUMENT CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY
  IS SUBJECT TO THE CONSTITUTION ONLY AND ALSO INDEPENDENT AS THE
  JUDICIARY ITSELF?
  
  
  
  IT IS THEREFORE MY RESPECTFUL AND CANDID SUBMISSION THAT AT THE END OF
  IT ALL GHANA SUPREME COURT WOULD DO JUSTICE SINCE I HAVE EVERY TRUST,
  CONFIDENCE AND FAITH IN THE SUPREME COURT THAT THE COURT WOULD DO
  JUSTICE.
  
  RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED.
  
  GOD BLESS AMERICA AND GHANA.
  
  VERY TRULY YOURS,
  
  BENONY TONY AMEKUDZI
  
  INTERNATIONAL LAWYER/LEGAL CONSULTANT
  
  
  
  
  
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  Comment to Article 05-11 21:32
  wait till NPP lose to see if it works Ebo05-11 21:32
  Tribalists and rasists will Fall SHAMO05-11 22:16
  THE US DOESN'T CARE A DAMN ABOUT NPP KB05-11 23:13
  Re: THE US DOESN'T CARE A DAMN ABOUT NPP Yes we can05-12 03:19
  NPP ARE NEVER PLEASE WITH EVEN GOD DJAN05-12 04:35
  NPP ARE NEVER PLEASED WITH OTHERS!! SHABO05-12 04:40
  Re: NPP ARE NEVER PLEASE WITH EVEN GOD AKYEKUM05-12 05:52
  Re: THE US DOESN'T CARE A DAMN ABOUT NPP DJAN-PPP05-12 04:38
  Re: THE US DOESN'T CARE A DAMN ABOUT NPP JK05-12 08:55
  shame on you insight to the bone05-12 06:56
  Re: Tribalists and rasists will Fall mensah abrampa05-12 07:00
  EVERYONE KNOWS THE PETITION IS FRIVOLOUS SGT ANANI FIADZOE05-12 03:16
  NPP WILL CRY FAUL TO EVERY LITTLE THING DJAN-PPP05-12 04:37
  Re: wait till NPP lose to see if it works mensah abrampa05-12 06:42
  Why should NPP have to wait? Pelicles05-12 08:58
  Leave us in peace Nobody05-11 21:57
  RE STONER KOBYLYNTON05-12 00:52
  Re: RE AKYEKUM05-12 05:54
  MOTHER AT DARK CORNER,BUT SEES LIGHT princewilly@ymail.com05-11 22:01
  Fake Lawers Cocain NPP losers SHAMO jealosy/tribalist/bigot akan05-11 22:17
  Re: Fake Lawers Cocain NPP losers Yes we can05-12 02:24
  U.S take a hike. Agyeman.05-11 22:22
  A black man is president in the US Pelicles05-12 08:52
  APPRECIATE THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF USA 4 Year Old05-11 22:45
  Akan Republic. Fuck Failed & Fake Ghana. INDEPENDENT STATE OF AKANLAND05-11 23:49
  are you aware Ashantes USA05-12 00:15
  Re: are you aware Ashantes Yes we can05-12 02:12
  Re: are you aware Ashantes USA05-12 04:43
  WHAT FOREIGN POLICY OBJECTIVES. KWABENA OHEMENG,LONDON.05-12 03:41
  Re: US pleased with Ghana’s political situation Kofi Asaase Asa--- Mantukwa05-12 05:27
  Djan andShabo Kwasi05-12 06:02
  Re: US pleased with Ghana’s political situation JK05-12 08:35
  Prez. Obama tell the NDC to shut up! Victor A. Young05-12 09:03
  RE: US PLEASED WITH GHANA ! BENONY TONY AMEKUDZI, ESQ.05-12 09:08
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  United States is pleased with the on-going
  political situation in Ghana with regards to the current petition
  challenging the outcome of the December 2012 presidential polls in
  court.
  
  
  
  Mr Michael Pelletier, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Public Diplomacy and
  Public Affairs, African Affairs of the US Department of State, said “it
  shows that the institutions are working in Ghana and people have
  confidence in the institutions.”
  
  
  
  Mr Pelletier said this in an interview with the Ghana News Agency at
  the US Department of State building in Washington DC yesterday after
  meeting with 2013 Spring Professional Fellows to address US-Africa
  foreign policy issues.
  
  
  
  Professional Fellows are up and coming and mid-level emerging leaders,
  who are competitively selected from across the globe by partner agencies
  of the US Department of State to come to the US and work with US public
  and private institutions and NGOs with the aim to broaden their
  expertise as well as understanding of American society.
  
  
  
  For this year’s Spring programme, 220 professionals in the areas of
  legislation, economics and media were selected from over 40 countries
  including Ghana, China, Peru, Costa Rica, to participate in the event
  where they spent four weeks working with various US institutions.
  
  
  
  Some people have suggested that, the on-going election petition case at
  the Supreme Court has and or might affect investor confidence in Ghana
  but Mr Pelletier said the election petition case did not affect US-Ghana
  relations in anyway adding that it also did not undermine or cast a
  slur on Ghana’s integrity amongst the investment community in the US.
  
  
  
  He said “you have the laws and the rules and you are just following the laws to address your grievances and that is right.”
  
  
  
  The 2012 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana
  Akufo-Addo, his running mate Dr Mahamudu Bawumia and Chairman of the
  NPP, Jake Obetsebi Lamptey are challenging the outcome of the December
  2012 presidential results at the Supreme Court, and have requested the
  court to annul substantial amount of votes secured by the winner,
  President John Mahama, citing alleged irregularities during the polls.
  
  
  
  Mr Pelletier said the US government would continue to work with the
  Ghana government to promote the welfare of the people in-line with its
  (US government) foreign policy objectives, which included strengthening
  democratic institutions, ensuring rule of law, free press, and promoting
  opportunities in economic growth and development.
  
  
  
  Ms Tara Sonenshine, Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and
  Public Affairs said the Professional Fellows Programme was at the core
  of the US government’s ideology and practicality adding it promoted
  mutual understanding between the US and other peoples across the world.
  
  
  
  Read Article
  
  Comment: RE: US PLEASED WITH GHANA !
  
  Author: BENONY TONY AMEKUDZI, ESQ.
  
  Date: 2013-05-12 09:08:16
  
  Comment to: US pleased with Ghana’s political situation
  
  
  
  DEAR H.E.DR.MR.PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA & H.E.PRESIDENT OF GHANA JOHN DRAMANI MAHAMA,
  
  TO RESPECTFULLY AND HUMBLY REFER TO THE PUBLICATION BELOW ON THE
  GHANAWEB.COM AND IN VIEW OF OUR CLOSELY FRIENDLY RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN
  UNITED STATES AND GHANA AND ALSO AS INTERNATIONAL LAWYER/LEGAL
  CONSULTANT TO STATE THAT "ELECTIONS ARE NOT HELD ON PINK SHEETS BUT AT
  POLLING STATIONS THROUGH THE BALLOT BOX". THAT THOUGH THE CASE IS STILL
  ONGOING AND I WOULD NOT LIKE TO PREEMPT THE OUTCOME BUT THE EVIDENCE
  ADDUCED IN COURT SO FAR POINTED OUT TO THE FACT THAT "NO MALPRACTICE OR
  ANY WRONG DOING" HAS/HAVE NEVER OCCURRED AT ANY OF THE POLLING STATIONS
  WHERE THE VOTES WERE CASTED. HOWEVER, THE PETITIONERS ALLEGED PETITION
  WAS OR WERE ONLY SURROUNDED BY A PURPORTED ADMINISTRATIVE ERRORS MADE ON
  THE PINK SHEETS THAT THEY PURPORTED MAKING THE ASSUMPTIONS OF
  CALCULATIONS AND ANALYSIS AND BROUGHT THIS FRIVOLOUS, CAPRICIOUS,
  MALICIOUS AND VEXATIOUS PETITION AGAINST A SITTING PRESIDENT OF GHANA
  WHO WON THE 2012 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS. THAT THE PETITIONERS IN THEIR
  PURPORTED ASSUMPTIONS OF ANALYSIS AND CALCULATIONS MADE SERIES AND
  SERIOUS MISTAKES THEMSELVES OF WHICH THE SECOND PETITIONER DR>MAHMOUD
  BAWUMIA WHO IS NOW UNDER CROSS-EXAMINATIONS TOLD THE SUPREME COURT
  ADMITTING MAKING THOSE MISTAKES AND EVEN WENT ON TO SAY THAT "EVERYBODY
  MAKES MISTAKES". THAT THE LEGAL ISSUES INVOLVING THIS RELATED MATTER ARE
  AS FOLLOWS:
  
  (i) WHETHER OR NOT A SITTING PRESIDENT OF GHANA WHILE IN OFFICE CAN BE SUED OR TO BE JOINED TO A LAWSUIT AS DEFENDANT?"
  
  THAT GHANA 1992 CONSTITUTION CHAPTER 008 ARTICLE 57 SECTIONS 4, 5 & 6
  CLEARLY READING ALL THE SECTIONS TOGETHER IN EFFECT PROVIDED THAT " A
  SITTING PRESIDENT OF GHANA WHILE IN OFFICE IS NOT AMENABLE TO ANY COURT
  OF GHANA".
  
  THAT THERE IS A LEGAL PRECEDENT IN THE CASE OF "NEW PATRIOTIC PARTY
  (NPP) VRS. PRESIDENT RAWLINGS & ATTORNEY GENERAL". THAT IN THIS CASE
  THE NPP CHALLENGED THE CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY OF THE PRESIDENT
  APPOINTING THE DISTRICT CHIEF EXECUTIVES". THAT THE SUPREME COURT HELD
  UNANIMOUSLY THAT THE PRESIDENT RIGHTFULLY EXERCISED HIS CONSTITUTIONAL
  AUTHORITY UNDER ARTICLE 57 SECTION 4 OF MAKING SUCH APPOINTMENTS.
  
  THAT IT WAS IN THIS CASE THAT A MEMBER OF THE PANEL RAISED A PRELIMINARY
  OBJECTION "WHETHER A SITTING PRESIDENT OF GHANA WHILE IN OFFICE CAN OR
  COULD BE SUED OR JOINED TO A LAWSUIT AS DEFENDANT?" THAT THE SUPREME
  COURT HELD 3-2 MAJORITY THAT "A SITTING PRESIDENT OF GHANA WHILE IN
  OFFICE CANNOT BE SUED OR JOINED TO A LAWSUIT AS DEFENDANT".
  
  THEREFORE SETTLED THE LEGAL POSITION OF THE QUESTION IN VIEW OF THE
  FIRST PRINCIPLE OF THE RULE OF LAW WHICH PROVIDES THAT "THE SUPREMACY OF
  THE LAW IS AS ADMINISTERED BY THE ORDINARY COURTS OF THE LAND AND IN
  THE INSTANT CASE THE SUPREME COURT OF GHANA AND HAS THEREFORE GIVEN
  EFFECT TO THE LAW AS SUPREME".
  
  IT IS AT THESE RELATED BACKDROP THAT BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT
  ENTERTAINED THE PETITION AGAINST A SITTING PRESIDENT OF GHANA WHILE IN
  OFFICE WHETHER OR NOT A PRELIMINARY OBJECTION HAS BEEN RAISED IT
  BEHOOVES ON THE COURT TO MAKE A DETERMINATION OF THE ISSUE FIRST AND
  FAILURE TO MAKE A DETERMINATION OF THE LEGAL ISSUE OFFENDS BOTH GHANA
  1992 CONSTITUTION ARTICLE 57 SECTIONS 4,5 & 6 , CASE LAW AND THE
  RULE OF LAW, JUSTICE AND FAIR-PLAY.
  
  
  
  (ii) WHETHER OR NOT A PREPARER OR MAKER OF A DOCUMENT WHO MAKES A
  MISTAKE ON THE FACE OF THE RECORD IS THE DUTY OF THE COURT TO CURE SUCH
  DEFECTS IN VIEW OF THE BODY MAKING THE DOCUMENT CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY
  IS SUBJECT TO THE CONSTITUTION ONLY AND ALSO INDEPENDENT AS THE
  JUDICIARY ITSELF?
  
  
  
  IT IS THEREFORE MY RESPECTFUL AND CANDID SUBMISSION THAT AT THE END OF
  IT ALL GHANA SUPREME COURT WOULD DO JUSTICE SINCE I HAVE EVERY TRUST,
  CONFIDENCE AND FAITH IN THE SUPREME COURT THAT THE COURT WOULD DO
  JUSTICE.
  
  RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED.
  
  GOD BLESS AMERICA AND GHANA.
  
  VERY TRULY YOURS,
  
  BENONY TONY AMEKUDZI
  
  INTERNATIONAL LAWYER/LEGAL CONSULTANT

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• Barima Yaw 12 years ago

  true

  true

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• NANA IS USING BAWUMIA 12 years ago

  BETTER GET BUSY WITH YOUR CLEANING JOB AND STOP TELLING US WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW. ARE YOU IN GHANA? IF IS WHAT YOU SEE ON TV WE ALL SEE IT TOO. SO WHAT IS YOUR POINT? JUST TRYING TO MISLEAD OTHERS?

  BETTER GET BUSY WITH YOUR CLEANING JOB AND STOP TELLING US WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW. ARE YOU IN GHANA? IF IS WHAT YOU SEE ON TV WE ALL SEE IT TOO. SO WHAT IS YOUR POINT? JUST TRYING TO MISLEAD OTHERS?

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• NANA IS USING BAWUMIA 12 years ago

  SHUT UP! IDIOTS!

  SHUT UP! IDIOTS!

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• Aki 12 years ago

  Please enlighten me on this portion of the write up. "By printing duplicate polling station sheets with duplicate serial numbers, the EC introduced 2.6 million votes which benefited John Mahama and led to an outcome that did ...
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  Please enlighten me on this portion of the write up. "By printing duplicate polling station sheets with duplicate serial numbers, the EC introduced 2.6 million votes which benefited John Mahama and led to an outcome that did not reflect the sovereign will and wishes of the people of Ghana. Therefore NPP-USA concurs with Dr. Bawumia that the EC is economical with the truth on the issue of the Duplicate Polling Station Sheets".
  1. How do you explain that this exercise benifitted Mr John Mahama given that the 2.6 mil votes to be annuled is for all the aspirants.
  2. Were surpervised election conducted at those polling stations?
  3. Must the originals and alleged 'duplicates' station results all to be annuled?
  4. Should my votes not count because of a purported wrong doing of EC?
  
  Please let be objective and call a spade a spade. 'Elections are won through votes casted and counted not administrative procedures'.

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• Charles A. 12 years ago

  The NPP is only saying President Mahama benefited from duplicate polling station results because Nana Addo lost at those stations.
  
  Don't forget that the NPP had their polling agents at the so-called duplicate polling sta ...
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  The NPP is only saying President Mahama benefited from duplicate polling station results because Nana Addo lost at those stations.
  
  Don't forget that the NPP had their polling agents at the so-called duplicate polling stations. Their are only against polling stations within the NDC strongholds that Mahama won. To them, if the SC heeds their demand and annul all pro-Mahama polling station results, Nana Addo can then become the President.

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• NiiAddo 12 years ago

  Even heaven knows NPP lost because the serial number on the pink sheet before it is filled does not identify the suggest the pink sheet is not unique because the EC explained that the EC issued those pink sheets to places tha ...
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  Even heaven knows NPP lost because the serial number on the pink sheet before it is filled does not identify the suggest the pink sheet is not unique because the EC explained that the EC issued those pink sheets to places that extra was needed so wherever the extras was needed those pink sheets were used.
  
  Infact this is why Tsatsu Tsikata the bdc lawyer requested that the SC do an audit up show all that pink sheets with same serial numbers were used in parliamentary votes too. This same audit will reveal why NPP has sat on the Asante and eastern regional votes because they know it will only go to show their selective game of picking pink sheets mostly from where John mahama won.
  
  All foreign observers, Codeo, the international and local press, ecowas, thr commonwealth, NPP own polling agents etc all say the election was won by John Mahama except the NPP. Are we to believe that those Ghanaians that voted in Asante region and eastern on the second day of voting should also be tossed? Or are we to toss millions of votes because some untrained bloke forgot to sign the pink sheet?
  
  NPP will never win this case because the Ghanaian who pays taxes here in g
  Ghana have spoken and that's that. The EC cannot be destroyed by NPP. How can NPP lose all these 32parliamentary and expect to govern Ghana with a majority NDC being stripped of their win and given to NPP through such flimsy excuses? Over our dead bodies

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• NII BII 12 years ago

  THEY ARE STUPID ARE TRIBAL ,THEY DON'T WANT THE TRUTH, AFARI GYAN HAS DONE SOMETHING GOOD TO GHANA , HE HAS IMPROUVE THE ELECTORATE SYSTEM AND HE NEED TO BE CHERISH ,. NANA WILL NEVER BE PRESIDENT OF GHANA

  THEY ARE STUPID ARE TRIBAL ,THEY DON'T WANT THE TRUTH, AFARI GYAN HAS DONE SOMETHING GOOD TO GHANA , HE HAS IMPROUVE THE ELECTORATE SYSTEM AND HE NEED TO BE CHERISH ,. NANA WILL NEVER BE PRESIDENT OF GHANA

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• Charles A. 12 years ago

  After sleepless nights watching their so-called "water tight" Supreme Court evidence being pulled down brick by brick, NPP USA think they have now found a straw to clink on to.
  
  Unfortunately, it is too late to help them. ...
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  After sleepless nights watching their so-called "water tight" Supreme Court evidence being pulled down brick by brick, NPP USA think they have now found a straw to clink on to.
  
  Unfortunately, it is too late to help them. NPP should wait until Dr. Afari Gyan climbs the witness box to give evidence that will knock out their last and only standing brick Tsikata might have missed.

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• Logosian 12 years ago

  These NPP cowards are hiding in far away USA and talking. Everyone of use in this matter is in the Supreme Court making statements. Come down, go to the the court and ask for a permission to join in the matter, and stop the s ...
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  These NPP cowards are hiding in far away USA and talking. Everyone of use in this matter is in the Supreme Court making statements. Come down, go to the the court and ask for a permission to join in the matter, and stop the silly noise. It would amount to zero.

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