Well said.. His manner and belligerent attitude as a witness truly baffles me. I believe he's just plain dishonest and does not care about the consequences of his action.
Well said.. His manner and belligerent attitude as a witness truly baffles me. I believe he's just plain dishonest and does not care about the consequences of his action.
READ y 2 dye 10 years ago
how many times have i said on this (creature from the earth) that you cannot trust oxford scholars....just look at how dumb kuffour is for selling gt i/2 the price to his oxford cronies,
voda-phone. people like bawuahmia n ... read full comment
how many times have i said on this (creature from the earth) that you cannot trust oxford scholars....just look at how dumb kuffour is for selling gt i/2 the price to his oxford cronies,
voda-phone. people like bawuahmia n k4 will do anything to impress those mo'fuckers who say they control the wind and swear they can see everything. oxford scholars will not sell but give the country to these moags on a silver platter, while y'all sitting there smoking rothmans. leopold deux, reverse colonial mentality. WISE UP; kumbi salem thats where we from. 100!
SARPONG 10 years ago
Kuffour sold 45% of GT for 555 million dollars. Rawlings sold the same percentage, 45% OF GT for 30 million dollars to Malaysia four years earlier which Kuffour bought back at 110 million which even NDC Parliamentarians at t ... read full comment
Kuffour sold 45% of GT for 555 million dollars. Rawlings sold the same percentage, 45% OF GT for 30 million dollars to Malaysia four years earlier which Kuffour bought back at 110 million which even NDC Parliamentarians at the time disagreed with Kuffour for paying too much for which he solad two years later for 555 million dollars.
Some of you just open your mouths and say things you have no clue about. Rawlings sold 1120 Ghana corporations for less than 100 million dollars.
MR. FIGURE - OUT 10 years ago
Yes, Bawumia has been very honest to the court and your silly rhetorical question would have been perfectly right if you had rather asked whether Tsatsu has been asking relevant questions. You should no better especially as y ... read full comment
Yes, Bawumia has been very honest to the court and your silly rhetorical question would have been perfectly right if you had rather asked whether Tsatsu has been asking relevant questions. You should no better especially as your background suggest you are familiar with how the court system operates. Your mendacious muckraking about Dr Bawumia being dishonest for not providing the names of the NPP representative in the EC's strong room is disingenuous to the integrity of Bawumia since I can recall he provided atleast one name to the court in a person of Kwabena Agyapong. What every discerning listeners should have notice about Bawumia, as of now, is that has been always careful and sometimes hesitant in providing names, a cunning way to avoid eating the bait of counsel Tsikata that would eventually give him the opportunity to call for more people, other than the petitioners, into the witness box to further delay and waste everybody's time. Ata should be smart enough to know about the nonsense of the law and at least give some credit to the confident posture of Bawumia in the witness box for trying to parry those irrelevant question that could logically incriminate himself. For me, Dr Bawumia has been doing great job, having been able to withstand the pressures of the three heavy weight lawyers, and it is very distasteful for anyone to maliciously brand him as a dishonest person. Come again, Cambridge Kofi Ata.
NANA 10 years ago
HE IS BEING USED BY THE AKYEMS MAFFIAS
HE IS BEING USED BY THE AKYEMS MAFFIAS
Jato Julor (J.J.) Rawlings 10 years ago
Twaddles of Kofi Ata, a foolsoldier with the intelligence of a rotten mango!
Does ignorant Kofi Ata actually know what is at stake at the supreme court ?
Has Kofi Ata heard what Afari Gyan told the nation and the NPP be ... read full comment
Twaddles of Kofi Ata, a foolsoldier with the intelligence of a rotten mango!
Does ignorant Kofi Ata actually know what is at stake at the supreme court ?
Has Kofi Ata heard what Afari Gyan told the nation and the NPP before and after the declaration of the election results (i.e. evidence is the name of the game) ?
I guess not, and I believe none of his owners ever told him about it, hence his twisted and sprained mind subjecting him to his 'agbadza analysis'.
Need he be told that the case before the supreme court is not about who or Bawumia knows or not,or whether Bawumia is an angel or not, but rather the court will first ascertain the veracity of the claim by petitioners that there were irregularities, omissions, malpractices and violations in the 2012 general election.
It will also find out whether the alleged irregularities, omissions violations, and malpractices, if they did occur, did influence the results of the election.
Only blockheads will find it hard to understand what is at stake at the supreme court and will rather settle down on what Bawumia knows or doesn't know.
Jato Julor (J.J.) Rawlings 10 years ago
'Need he be told that the case before the supreme court is not about who or Bawumia knows or not,or whether Bawumia is an angel or not, but rather the court will first ascertain the veracity of the claim by petitioners that t ... read full comment
'Need he be told that the case before the supreme court is not about who or Bawumia knows or not,or whether Bawumia is an angel or not, but rather the court will first ascertain the veracity of the claim by petitioners that there were irregularities, omissions, malpractices and violations in the 2012 general election.'
should rather read:
"Need he be told that the case before the supreme court is not about who or what Bawumia knows or not,or whether Bawumia is an angel or not, but rather the court will first ascertain the veracity of the claim by petitioners that there were irregularities, omissions, malpractices and violations in the 2012 general election.
error sadly regretted.
AKU-FO 10 years ago
Dr. Bawumia keeps on saying that the law was not followed. But they themselves did not follow the same law. The law says if you have any objections fill the complaint form but since they did not follow the laid down procedure ... read full comment
Dr. Bawumia keeps on saying that the law was not followed. But they themselves did not follow the same law. The law says if you have any objections fill the complaint form but since they did not follow the laid down procedure, they have no bases for going to court!!!! Please tell Tsastu for me.
Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 10 years ago
MR FIGURE-OUT, from your comment, you are suggesting that Bawumia knew those who represented NPP in the Strong Room but for fear of those representatives being called into the witness box, he decided to be economical with the ... read full comment
MR FIGURE-OUT, from your comment, you are suggesting that Bawumia knew those who represented NPP in the Strong Room but for fear of those representatives being called into the witness box, he decided to be economical with the truth. That is precisely why I found his answer strange. For your information and by the order of the SC, no individual or groups of individuals could be called into the witness box to be cross examined if they had not provided a sworn affidavit. Even not all those who presented sworn affidavits could be cross examined as we saw on Thursday when the application to cross examined three witnesses of the petitioners was turned by SC. So your defence or excuse for Bawumia being economical with the truth falls flat.
Of course, I give credit for Bawumia and do not blame him for his style of answering questions during cross examination and in fact, I indicated in the article that the blame is a collective one. However, being economical with the truth or dishonest lies squarely on him.
Wiseman 10 years ago
Why do you give credit to Bawumia? The guy would have been the Vice President of Ghana!
Stop the continuous urge to make apologies for someone who could have known better. And stop the fighting with yourself to "balance" ... read full comment
Why do you give credit to Bawumia? The guy would have been the Vice President of Ghana!
Stop the continuous urge to make apologies for someone who could have known better. And stop the fighting with yourself to "balance" articles to prevent being mauled by NPP folks here. They have already been raining a hell of disparaging expletives on your voluntary opinions.
There is only one truth; the middle between truth and lies is hypocrisy.
I even find your "Economical with the truth" exceedingly insulting to the public. That expression is a euphemism of Bawumia being a congenital first class liar. But in form, the expression doesn't attenuate any effect since we all see what he's been up to. When he found that that he was caught up in his maze of terrible untruths, he wove around sheepishly, haggard, requiring the sympathies of court.
I have come to treasure the petition action in that, it has exposed the so-called knowledgeable and educated bigots contriving hard to rule us. What would they have done as leaders if, knowing the court proceedings are viewed worldwide and yet took to wholesale lying to which we were all witnesses?
The guy has damaged his own sides. I think his numerous admirers should begin to clean his bruises before he lands flat soon when verdict would have been reached.
Grace 10 years ago
yes I agree with Mr Wiseman,the truth hurts n not everyone would agree with you.
yes I agree with Mr Wiseman,the truth hurts n not everyone would agree with you.
Paul Amuna 10 years ago
You have said it all. Ghanaians should seriously think who they want to be their leaders and in my view Bawumia is certainly not one of them.
You have said it all. Ghanaians should seriously think who they want to be their leaders and in my view Bawumia is certainly not one of them.
Judge Dredd 10 years ago
You said it all, Wiseman. I couldn't imagine that for someone who gave the impression that he was just interested in the truth, forget about his Vice Presidential ambitions, Bawumiah would lie with such a straight face. I don ... read full comment
You said it all, Wiseman. I couldn't imagine that for someone who gave the impression that he was just interested in the truth, forget about his Vice Presidential ambitions, Bawumiah would lie with such a straight face. I don't know how that could even be defended by a part goon. It was just so pathetic.
kk 10 years ago
You can do all your analysis and make all the comments to sooth your leanings.
We will all hear the ruling. Keep in mind the issues before the court else you will loose focus. Tsatu's avowed goal was to discredit Bawumiah ... read full comment
You can do all your analysis and make all the comments to sooth your leanings.
We will all hear the ruling. Keep in mind the issues before the court else you will loose focus. Tsatu's avowed goal was to discredit Bawumiah without even looking at the issues before the court, and you expected Bawumiah to have swallowed his bait? Come on!!! He is too intelligent for that.
Am suprised people likeKofi Atta and Paul Amuna think a person like Bawumiah is dishonest and unfit to rule, but cannot see any dishonesty in this NDC Team F who are trying to coverup Woyomey gate, Atta Mills' death scandal, and billions of cedis in budget deficits in one year with nothing to show for. If you cannot see dishonesty in the thieves parading as leaders, who have been caught red-handed, its suprising how you strain to inpute dishonesty to a gentleman like Bawumiah.
I think we need to be honest with ourselves those of us who comment in this forum. I guess we all love Ghana dearly, yet for partisanship tendencies sake, we feign oblivion of the truth. Did we not see how the NDC in the last four years ran Ghana aground, the gargantuan thievery in the name of Judgement debts, when basic service provision grounded to a halt. Yet an untiring propaganda machinery thrusts it down our throats how successful the better Ghana agenda has been. If People like Kofi Atta and Amuna cannot see dishonesty in this crop of NDC leadership, then I have every right to question their loyalty and love for this country. Of course, enscounced in their coxy Cambridge environments, they have lost touch with the reality of the suffering masses in Ghana, so they can re-define what dishonesty means.
Paul Amuna 10 years ago
AS pity I did not see this earlier. It is wholly unfair for you to criticise us for examining and giving our opinions on this on-going case.
Whether the NDC has "run the country aground" or not is entirely your opinion but ... read full comment
AS pity I did not see this earlier. It is wholly unfair for you to criticise us for examining and giving our opinions on this on-going case.
Whether the NDC has "run the country aground" or not is entirely your opinion but with all due respect, whatever the merits of your assertions, they bear absolutely no relevance to a case in court and a witness whose performance we are all observing and on whom the current commentary is focused. I am quite happy to be involved in a debate on that subject, and to provide my honest opinions based on evidence.
It might interest you to know that I for one do not comment only on matters such as this one, but am interested in, and do comment on even the least popular issues that have a bearing on our national development. I do not comment because I belong to either side, but rather as a Ghanaian with an interest in matters of state and what affects our democracy. I have also been (and will continue to be) critical of the NDC government and its ministers and functionaries wherever I see them act or do things I think merit my criticism.
Also please note that the Woyome case dates back to the Kufour administration and is a subject for which there has been a lot of commentary on all sides. I fail to see how my lack of commentary on that issue (like many others involving other forms of business litigation) should amount to a'complicity of silence'. Finally I think you ought to know that my commentary is not based on any partisan interests or affiliations, and frankly I do not want to be affiliated to any, not now, not in the future. The premise of your arguments is therefore baseless as far as I am concerned and quite irrelevant to this present debate.
John Anamse 10 years ago
I think you should keep your calm and focus on the issues raised by Kofi.
The subject here is Bawumia's responses at the SC and whether he was honest in what he said.
It is not about who is the most dishonest person or ... read full comment
I think you should keep your calm and focus on the issues raised by Kofi.
The subject here is Bawumia's responses at the SC and whether he was honest in what he said.
It is not about who is the most dishonest person or politician in Ghana.
The fact that there are other dishonest people in Ghana does not make what Bawumia said honest or dishonest. Just judge Bawumia on his performance in court and judge others by their own behaviour.
READ y 2 dye 10 years ago
SPA= sale purchase agreement - signed by dr. valerie sawyer deputy chief of staff.
Full text begins:
In 2008, the Government of Ghana divested seventy percent (70%) of its shares in the Ghana Telecommunications Company Limi ... read full comment
SPA= sale purchase agreement - signed by dr. valerie sawyer deputy chief of staff.
Full text begins:
In 2008, the Government of Ghana divested seventy percent (70%) of its shares in the Ghana Telecommunications Company Limited (GT) to Vodafone International Holdings BV for nine hundred million US dollars ($900m).
The enlarged GT Group's 70% stake could have been sold for more than the SPA price of US $900million because the value put on GT by the Transaction Advisors was higher and Telekom SA offered US $947 million for a much lower stake of 66.67%.
The Government of Ghana did not get value for money from the sale and, through a series of complicated financial arrangements, the Government of Ghana realized only US $266.57 million from the SPA
The SPA was negotiated in an inelegant manner by Government, which gave everything and took nothing in the context of the inequalities in bargaining power that were allowed to prevail. This should never be allowed to happen again. now where did you get your information....45% for 555.
empty drums...you talk just like them....half truths....rawlings is an old soldier who saved gh but later fucked it up..we talking about oxford scholars, who will sell thier own mother to impress the all seeing eye. please dont forget boycott voda-phone. u prob dont have that service anyway. 100 :source modern ghana.com banking n finance section, oct 16 2009. injoy!
KOLA, LONDON PROPER 10 years ago
It all goes to show how Tsastu Tsikata bored holes into NPP's Petition exhibits.
Bawumia was made to understand that his knowledge of the law or law in general was very poor. When Tsastu put that to Bawumia, Bawumia could ... read full comment
It all goes to show how Tsastu Tsikata bored holes into NPP's Petition exhibits.
Bawumia was made to understand that his knowledge of the law or law in general was very poor. When Tsastu put that to Bawumia, Bawumia could not defend himself and rather looked like a sloppy bush rat in Navrongo market in search of crumbs......hahaha!!!
SARPONG 10 years ago
First, who wrote this article might have been an Ndc sympathizer because 70% was not sold for 900 million but rather $995 million and Telecom SA price offer of 947 was a good offer but their management of SA Telecom was riddl ... read full comment
First, who wrote this article might have been an Ndc sympathizer because 70% was not sold for 900 million but rather $995 million and Telecom SA price offer of 947 was a good offer but their management of SA Telecom was riddled with problems and Ghana was looking for a strategic partner with record of success and financial backing to turn the company around.
The Telecom SA schedule of payment too was stretched for many years which compared to Vodafone with ready cash made the Vodafone bid better than the Telecom SA.
No Ndc supporter like you as I have said earlier has no right to critisize that sale because Rawlings had sold 45% of GT for a mere 30 million dollars and the ingenuity of Kuffour made Ghana 445 million profit for Rawlings stupidity alone.
SARPONG 10 years ago
"This should never be allowed to happen again. now where did you get your information....45% for 555."
YOU ARE REALLY A DUMMY . If 70% was sold for 900 million, what is 45% of that 900 million? Can you do simple arithemati ... read full comment
"This should never be allowed to happen again. now where did you get your information....45% for 555."
YOU ARE REALLY A DUMMY . If 70% was sold for 900 million, what is 45% of that 900 million? Can you do simple arithematic?
State and Telekom Malaysia settle Ghana Telecom dispute
9 May 2005
Ghana
The Government of Ghana and Telekom Malaysia™ yesterday announced that they have reached an amicable settlement in their international arbitration proceedings concerning the pair’s long-running dispute over fixed line incumbent Ghana Telecom (GT). Details of the agreement have not been publicly disclosed, but the state is set to pay TM an undisclosed sum to buy back the Malaysian company’s holding in GT. The settlement remains conditional and the payments will be staggered over a two year period.
In 1997 the state sold a 30% stake in GT to the G-Com consortium, in which Telekom Malaysia™ holds an 85% stake, for USD38 million. TM was given a five year management contract to run the company for the duration of GT’s fixed line duopoly with new entrant Westel. By the time of the contract’s expiration TM presided over a poorly configured network, with just 275,000 fixed lines in service, well short of its mandated 400,000. The new government declined to renew TM’s deal and put the management of the company out to tender. Relations between the state and TM have since deteriorated to the point where the Malaysian company has attempted to sell its stake back to the government and to recover the deposit it had paid for the holding, as well as a significant amount in damages for what it terms ‘unfair treatment’. The government has said that once the dispute was resolved it would buy back TM’s stake and float it on the Ghana Stock Exchange.
READ y 2 dye 10 years ago
ok. without using a calculator we can easily see that 50% of 900 is $450. you talk like a snake oil salesman. i have read some of your comments/debate with others and have recognized that you tend to be all over the place wit ... read full comment
ok. without using a calculator we can easily see that 50% of 900 is $450. you talk like a snake oil salesman. i have read some of your comments/debate with others and have recognized that you tend to be all over the place with no focus on the issues. just like this... am talking about voda-phone n u talking about t. malaysia...am talking about bawuahmia n u talking about rawlings...for your information i support neither party...i am one who loves his country want to see that what happened in the 18th century never happens again. you support everything npp even if you know in your heart they are wrong, and that is exactly what asantehene was talking about.(party politics has perverted the country) you wont hear me talking about politics inside the country, but i will always be on guard for my beloved gh in our dealings with aliens....maybe if you know madam blavasky n spartacus you will see my view. fyi 555 is the height of the obelisk in washinton dc. please do not waste too much energy on this petition, even though i agree that it has enhanced the image of gh, judgement was made when the judges said they have enough evidence to rule. c am not from ur little village in BA so u better come correct or go home. boycott voda-phone; one!
SARPONG 10 years ago
You are really a simpleton and that is why you failed your O level maths. 900 million is not 100% worth of the company but 70%. Vodafone paid 900 million for 70% of the company so you have to first find how much GT was valued ... read full comment
You are really a simpleton and that is why you failed your O level maths. 900 million is not 100% worth of the company but 70%. Vodafone paid 900 million for 70% of the company so you have to first find how much GT was valued when Vodafone paid 900. million for 70%. That means 1% of vodafone was valued at 12.43 million. Now multiply 12.5 by 45 and that is about 560 million dollars.
You see why you failed your "O" level maths. I don't support everything NPP and have critized NPP many times. I was the first NPP supporter to critizise Kuffour for awarding himself a medal and coined the phrase Bokassanization for that stupidly and many times have parted ways with NPP but the eight years of NPP administration has been the best since Nkrumah was overthrown. What I can't stand is when simpletons think they know something when they are not.
READ y 2 dye 10 years ago
in your own writings you said 45% of 900. still if we do 45% of 100%. if 70% = 900 mil. 100% = 9000/7 is not 12.43 mil. c ur problem is u exaggerate a lot and keep moving the post. dont tell me is about 560 mil. thats why th ... read full comment
in your own writings you said 45% of 900. still if we do 45% of 100%. if 70% = 900 mil. 100% = 9000/7 is not 12.43 mil. c ur problem is u exaggerate a lot and keep moving the post. dont tell me is about 560 mil. thats why the whole country is fucked up. be specific its a bill of sale. The Government of Ghana did not get value for money from the sale and, through a series of complicated financial arrangements, the Government of Ghana realized only US $266.57 million from the SPA. so speak the truth regardless of what rawlings didnt do. do you think it is a good deal. dude say he has distinction in math n still can add. leopold (ii) deux. reverse colonial mentality. boycott vodaphone.
HONESTY 10 years ago
Who told you what you are saying? Illiterate
Who told you what you are saying? Illiterate
Nyame Ekuma 10 years ago
Bawumia is a very stupid northern TOKE and GOAT. How can he be stupidly and sheepish be slaving for this Akyem arrogants.
Bawumia would realise how foolish and stupid he is when 20 people contest him for flag bearer. Sma ... read full comment
Bawumia is a very stupid northern TOKE and GOAT. How can he be stupidly and sheepish be slaving for this Akyem arrogants.
Bawumia would realise how foolish and stupid he is when 20 people contest him for flag bearer. Small boy toke, metamorphosis from FiNANCIAL POEMIST to an ELECTORAL POEMIST under oath. TOKE BELLER . KWASIATO BAD WOOL MIA. Nonsense
Sipri 10 years ago
All politicians are liars. No Ghanaian politician can survive without telling lies. Bawumia is just behaving true to type. Both sides in the SC case will readily tell a lie if it will help their case and they won't be caught.
All politicians are liars. No Ghanaian politician can survive without telling lies. Bawumia is just behaving true to type. Both sides in the SC case will readily tell a lie if it will help their case and they won't be caught.
RO 10 years ago
I get worried when intellectuals come out with such analysis, but I not surprise because honesty is a personal decision. these questions remain unanswered , if u hire a guard and he sleep for a thief to steal, is the thief ex ... read full comment
I get worried when intellectuals come out with such analysis, but I not surprise because honesty is a personal decision. these questions remain unanswered , if u hire a guard and he sleep for a thief to steal, is the thief exonerated from stealing? Again if I sleep n does not close my door n the thief come to steal, if I am lucky to arrest the thief can't he/she be prosecuted.
Paul Amuna 10 years ago
As far I am aware,no one can accuse the other of "stealing£" or are we talking about different things here?
If you are referring to the elections, nothing was "stolen" and even the petitioners abandoned that rhetoric and ... read full comment
As far I am aware,no one can accuse the other of "stealing£" or are we talking about different things here?
If you are referring to the elections, nothing was "stolen" and even the petitioners abandoned that rhetoric and malicious accusation long ago. It is clearly not included in their petition.
The trouble is, when propagandists peddle such misleading untruths, some people (and I suspect you are one such) hang on to these accusations even when they have been discredited and abandoned, for their own 'comfort' and solace when they find it hard to prove their case. You might be suffering from that very syndrome my friend.
BUFFALO POLICE,NEW YORK. 10 years ago
This guy has no shame and a very big disgrace to all PHD holders in Ghana.PERIOD!!!.
This guy has no shame and a very big disgrace to all PHD holders in Ghana.PERIOD!!!.
Kakraba Cromwell 10 years ago
This is why bawumia's tetimony at the supreme court petition is farce
Dr Bawumia has told the Supreme Court that he does not have a single shred of protest note from any of the NPP polling agents that were at the 26,002 po ... read full comment
This is why bawumia's tetimony at the supreme court petition is farce
Dr Bawumia has told the Supreme Court that he does not have a single shred of protest note from any of the NPP polling agents that were at the 26,002 polling stations on Election Day
Dr Bawumia read vividly and in clear voice that if a presiding officer at a polling station does not sign his/her name on the pink sheet, it does not nullify the results.
Dr Bawumia has adopted throughout the court proceedings is, “You and I were not there, so we cannot tell what actually happened on voting day.” If you were not at a polling station on voting day, how then are you able to deduce that a figure that has been cancelled by a presiding officer still stands? Again, if you were not there, how are you able to conclude that when the figures of the number of voters are different from the words the figures supersedes the words?
Dr Bawumia wants the court to examine the pink sheets from areas won by President Mahama and throw the votes away, but he has shielded the pink sheets from areas won by Nana Akufo-Addo from review.
Dr Bawumia has made series and series of mistakes in his evidence gathering and wants those mistakes to be taken into account in throwing away the votes of over 4 million voters
i guess u can fool people some times but u can not do so all the time
Kobena 10 years ago
No, Sir,
Dr Bawumia has cited instances where NPP polling agents refused to sign results. These polling agents, especilly in the rural areas, are largely untrained semi-literate volunteers. Their wishy washy perfomances show ... read full comment
No, Sir,
Dr Bawumia has cited instances where NPP polling agents refused to sign results. These polling agents, especilly in the rural areas, are largely untrained semi-literate volunteers. Their wishy washy perfomances show how low our education system has sunnk. Even the cities with so-called preparatory shools, the level of understanding of baisc forms is so poor.
How did Kondau's nomination forms get to be disqualified? Here we are talking about a university graduate of many decades whose husband actually became head of state. She could not complete properly and review nomination forms. What do we expect of some JSS droupts in the villages?
Did the EC really expect every political party to field agents at every polling statio? The presiding officers were trained EC employees. How could they get it so badly wrong? Ordinarily, when someone makes a genuine mistake on an OFFICIAL document, they correct and initial the correction. The figures on the pink sheets that the NPP presented are clear cases of fraud, people hurriedly making up numbers to tilt resullts.
The elections were held at great cost to the taxpayer and we expected the EC to do better than that. If ECG, Water and Sewerage, Highways, etc, produced such sloppy results in their day to dy operations, we will all be dead.
EC's errors are so widespread and systematic to be just administrative mistakes. When the NPP first raised the alarm Afari-Gyan should have listened. I am just itching to hear how he defends the "base 5" additions and polling station identification duplications.
Cry the beloved country!
Odonkoshie 10 years ago
Dr Bwumia is not being economical with the truth; he's simply being dishonest. It is not difficult to tell the truth but this key witness has not been able to answer simple questions rather dancing around the questions becaus ... read full comment
Dr Bwumia is not being economical with the truth; he's simply being dishonest. It is not difficult to tell the truth but this key witness has not been able to answer simple questions rather dancing around the questions because there is no credence in their 'inconvertible'evidence. Indeed time will further tell on his already damaged credibility and for that matter the NPP party as a whole.
Don Blunt 10 years ago
Is it ILLEGAL to be dishonest?
Will Mahama tell us how he knew for sure he would win "one-touch"?
Will Afari-Gyan tell us why he had to forcefully create 45 new constituencies?
Will Tsatsu tell us why he kept repeating alr ... read full comment
Is it ILLEGAL to be dishonest?
Will Mahama tell us how he knew for sure he would win "one-touch"?
Will Afari-Gyan tell us why he had to forcefully create 45 new constituencies?
Will Tsatsu tell us why he kept repeating already answered questions?
HONESTY in Ghana is apparently a matter of "from whom" it is coming.
Are we really being honest - even to ourselves, when upon all what we know, -voters registration, -creation of new constituencies, -conduction of elections, collation and transmission of polling results, -STL activities?
Are you, Kofi Atta, honestly honest as Ghanaian, with such an article?
Don Blunt 10 years ago
He disagreed with petitioners' counsel on the relevance of the Tsatsu question concerning what Bawumia might have heard about the NPP General Secretary supposedly advising NPPians to wear white garments and "go to church" on ... read full comment
He disagreed with petitioners' counsel on the relevance of the Tsatsu question concerning what Bawumia might have heard about the NPP General Secretary supposedly advising NPPians to wear white garments and "go to church" on the 9th of Dec.
Is that the case being handled?
Would Atuguba not have based his judgement on that issue, had Bawumia had knowledge of that allegation?
The intellectual dishonesty of Ghanaians is more deadly than that of armed robbers, Kofi Atta
Paul Amuna 10 years ago
For the past several years, I have observed with dismay a pattern of behaviour on the part of Dr Bawumia in which he seeks at all cost to twist, present and get his opinions across as if they were facts.
He chooses only t ... read full comment
For the past several years, I have observed with dismay a pattern of behaviour on the part of Dr Bawumia in which he seeks at all cost to twist, present and get his opinions across as if they were facts.
He chooses only those aspects of data which will support his arguments and conveniently leaves out others. This was typical of his so-called economic analysis of the state of Ghana's economy a few years ago. I like many others was so appalled and disappointed that such a 'fine scholar' and erstwhile deputy governor of the bank of Ghana would stoop so low.
In my honest opinion, Dr Bawumia's showing so far at the supreme court is rather typical of the man and I being he is being downright dishonest because he cannot pretend nor claim not to have known about so many obvious occurrences which were clearly in the public domain. Why he chooses this approach to life and important matters of State I simply do not know but I am terribly disappointed in the man. I was rather hoping that the matter at the supreme court would be examined truthfully and honestly in the interests of our democracy.
What Bawumia has done in my view has been 'an insult' to our democracy and what he (and others with him) claimed they wish to uphold. As a fellow intellectual of 'Northern Ghanaian descent', I am terribly disappointed and have been with him for some time (before this petition).
He has only confirmed my initial impressions of him and I suspect many Ghanaians are beginning to see him for what he truly is. My own view to answer your question is that - yes, politics is a 'forgetful business' and is quick to 'forgive'. Not in this case.
I am of the opinion that Bawumia's credibility is damaged (whatever the outcome of the case) and I suspect it has harmed their case. I will be very surprised if he comes out of this with any national standing of significance except one of 'notoriety'.
SARPONG 10 years ago
Your opinion on Bawumiah is based strictly for your dislike of the NPP and your penchant to see Mahama as a President irrespective of what the evidence is as most Northerners want to see Mahama as the President instead of Nan ... read full comment
Your opinion on Bawumiah is based strictly for your dislike of the NPP and your penchant to see Mahama as a President irrespective of what the evidence is as most Northerners want to see Mahama as the President instead of Nana Akuffo Addo.
Dr Bawumiah has rather enhanced his image as an intellectual who has gone toe to toe with a fake law luminary who ask open ended questions that have given Dr Bawumiah to inflict deep cuts on the reputation of Tsatsu. Dr Bawumiah economic analysis you were talking about was later confirmed by the International Monetary fund as being the real economic situation in Ghana. Paul, don't for a minute believe that people are not aware that you are politicxally tilted towards Ndc though you are sometimes very objective in your analysis and not one of those blind Ndc supporters but for you to say that Dr Bawumiah has soiled his reputation is neither here nor there but rather he has cemented his reputation as not a one track academic genius but an all around intellectual who has made Tsatsu make a lot of mistakes including scoring an own goal and admitting that, over voting and other irregulaties occured in Ashanti and Eastern Region as if elections in those two regions was conducted by NPP and not NDC.
ADOMBA 10 years ago
BE HONEST SARPONG YOU ARE ALSO COMMENTING THROUGH THE EYES AND MIND OF NPP IDEOLOGUE, BAWUMIA WAS DISHONEST AND TSATSU EXPOSED HIM. THE NPP PETITION IS NOW INFESTED WITH MULTIPLE DENTS AND LOOPHOLES
BE HONEST SARPONG YOU ARE ALSO COMMENTING THROUGH THE EYES AND MIND OF NPP IDEOLOGUE, BAWUMIA WAS DISHONEST AND TSATSU EXPOSED HIM. THE NPP PETITION IS NOW INFESTED WITH MULTIPLE DENTS AND LOOPHOLES
SARPONG 10 years ago
Tell me what Tsatsu achieved with his cross examination that Tony Lithur did not. Tsatsu is just not a trial lawyer but a great law Teacher. His questioning is pedestrian at best and has done damage to ndc rather having incur ... read full comment
Tell me what Tsatsu achieved with his cross examination that Tony Lithur did not. Tsatsu is just not a trial lawyer but a great law Teacher. His questioning is pedestrian at best and has done damage to ndc rather having incurred the wrath of most of the Judges for 11 days of cross examination with nothing to show for it.
Tsatsu is now on ego trip having had his reputation as a law luminary destroyed.
SARPONG 10 years ago
Tell me what Tsatsu achieved with his cross examination that Tony Lithur did not. Tsatsu is just not a trial lawyer but a great law Teacher. His questioning is pedestrian at best and has done damage to ndc rather having incur ... read full comment
Tell me what Tsatsu achieved with his cross examination that Tony Lithur did not. Tsatsu is just not a trial lawyer but a great law Teacher. His questioning is pedestrian at best and has done damage to ndc rather having incurred the wrath of most of the Judges for 11 days of cross examination with nothing to show for it.
Tsatsu is now on ego trip having had his reputation as a law luminary destroyed.
SARPONG 10 years ago
Tell me what Tsatsu achieved with his cross examination that Tony Lithur did not. Tsatsu is just not a trial lawyer but a great law Teacher. His questioning is pedestrian at best and has done damage to ndc rather having incur ... read full comment
Tell me what Tsatsu achieved with his cross examination that Tony Lithur did not. Tsatsu is just not a trial lawyer but a great law Teacher. His questioning is pedestrian at best and has done damage to ndc rather having incurred the wrath of most of the Judges for 11 days of cross examination with nothing to show for it.
Tsatsu is now on ego trip having had his reputation as a law luminary destroyed.
SARPONG 10 years ago
Tell me what Tsatsu achieved with his cross examination that Tony Lithur did not. Tsatsu is just not a trial lawyer but a great law Teacher. His questioning is pedestrian at best and has done damage to ndc rather having incur ... read full comment
Tell me what Tsatsu achieved with his cross examination that Tony Lithur did not. Tsatsu is just not a trial lawyer but a great law Teacher. His questioning is pedestrian at best and has done damage to ndc rather having incurred the wrath of most of the Judges for 11 days of cross examination with nothing to show for it.
Tsatsu is now on ego trip having had his reputation as a law luminary destroyed.
Paul Amuna 10 years ago
Cardinal, much as I am wholly disappointed in the behaviours of current leaders of the NPP, I do not hate Bawumia, nor am I saying or writing anything because I want Mahama to be president. I personally believe leadership and ... read full comment
Cardinal, much as I am wholly disappointed in the behaviours of current leaders of the NPP, I do not hate Bawumia, nor am I saying or writing anything because I want Mahama to be president. I personally believe leadership and integrity must go together and if you ask me, between Mahama and Bawumia, in the last 3 years, I would say Mahama has been the better of the two on this score. But that is beside the point.
I have worked very well well and supported the Ghana government during president Kuffour's tenure and over the decades, it has not bothered me who was in charge except following the overthrow of the Osagyefo Dr Nkrumah, the palace coup by Gen Akuffo and the second coming of Rawlings in 1981 to overthrow a legitimate government.
My observations are purely on the attitude and behaviour of Bawumia who has not only been evasive, but has chosen of his own free will to say untruths (by feigning ignorance) on matters which have clearly HAPPENED during and following the elections. This has not to do with NDC or NPP. Things happened the the guy is saying he was not aware of them, or that they were not that significant and I find that most disturbing in a leader.
When the dust is settled, I hope you will be honest enough and man enough to come back to this forum to apologise to me and others for misjudging us and putting us in a different light.
I can also guarantee you that as we go into the next phase of cross examination, you should expect that both Kofi Ata and myself will be critical of any witnesses from the respondents. I expect at that time that the 'blind' NDC supporters will condemn us for our honest and candid views.
I keep saying this umpteenth times, that I really don't care which party is in power as long as they play fair and are ONE-NATION focused. My honest opinion is that the NPP currently does not give me that feeling.
I can also tell you that the NDC has many flaws and poor performance is a common feature of some of them. I also cannot for the life of me understand why Asiedu Nketiah for instance, a named witness in the case should take to the airwaves at every opportunity to comment on a matter in which he is a key witness in court. I find that equally bizarre and bordering on contempt but we will see.
Please stop mischaracterising me or my party leanings as I honestly DON'T belong to any of the parties, not even the Nkrumaist ones which have been most disappointing to me.
Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 10 years ago
SARPONG, it is very clear from the mistakes and errors on the pink sheets that lead Counsel for the third respondent had no option but to accept or admit that there were mistakes. However, he has not accepted or admitted that ... read full comment
SARPONG, it is very clear from the mistakes and errors on the pink sheets that lead Counsel for the third respondent had no option but to accept or admit that there were mistakes. However, he has not accepted or admitted that there were over voting and other irregularities.
He used the example from NPP stronghold to prove a case and that is, the errors and mistakes did not occur in only certain polling stations but probably, across the country.
He had to do so because he must address the Justices on this matter and ask them to rule on whether such errors and mistakes met the test for "statutory malpractices, irregularities, omissions, etc. And if so, did such statutory malpractices, irregularities, omissions, etc affect the final outcome?
In other words, even though it appears to be an own goal, it is also a legal necessity because if he did not make that acceptance he could not deal with the issue in his final address or submission to the Justices. It's a strategy that could work either in his favour ore against him but it was a necessary evil. so please do not interpret it one way. Only the Justices have the answer to it and it could be either way.
SARPONG 10 years ago
"However, he has not accepted or admitted that there were over voting and other irregularities."
Kofi, do you remember the Asokwa pink sheet he introduced to the court showing that was over voting in Ashanti Region but Dr ... read full comment
"However, he has not accepted or admitted that there were over voting and other irregularities."
Kofi, do you remember the Asokwa pink sheet he introduced to the court showing that was over voting in Ashanti Region but Dr Bawumiah intentionally did not include them in his analysis? You don't call that an admission of accepting over voting? Even the NDC court room lawyer who acts as its spokesman, Ato Dadzie boasted that they will show that over voting occurred in Ashanti and Eastern regions. Kofi, below are quotes from Nana Ato Dazie after Tsatsu had introduced a pink sheet from Asokwa primary school in Asokwa constituency in Ashanti region showing over voting and another NDC Lawyer Adawuda admitting that massive irregularities occured due to poor training of EC officials.
"Ato Dadzie went ahead to say that, the ruling now meant NDC could now forage into the votes of the strongholds of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).He said incursions by respondents into opposition areas will prove over-voting. They would also call for annulment in their strongholds. He then called for every pink sheet to be examined.
"The legal team of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the ongoing election petition hearing has served notice they will question results declared in the opposition stronghold of Ashanti region and others.Speaking to Joy News, a leading member of the party’s legal team, Nana Ato Dadzie said they will now use the court’s ruling as a basis to introduce evidence about the conduct of the 2012 polls in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) stronghold of Ashanti and Eastern Region.We also want to know the Ashanti votes… we want to know what results came out from Eastern region...” Ato Dadzie insisted."
"NDC Lawyer Victor Kojogah Adawudu found it very intriguing why the petitioners only picked polling stations where President Mahama won when in fact similar alleged irregularities occurred in their strongholds.He was of the opinion that the entire 2012 general election results were marred with errors as a result of the ‘ignorance’ of some staff of the Electoral Commission. Lawyer Adawudu said the NDC will prove to the Justices that massive irregularities occurred at polling stations won by Akufo-Addo but for political expediency they [petitioners] hid it from Ghanaians."
Kofi, we all want the truth because this petition though not welcomed by NDC supporters had enhanced the image of our country as a peace loving people who will not resort to violence to settle politicalk scores as have been the mode of many countries around the globe. Though I have little hope that the Supreme Court will over turn the election result not because there is no evidence to do but they will take the easier way out to preserve the peace without charting the waters of unknown by disrupting Mahama's administration.
Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 10 years ago
Are you suggesting that the Justices will be taking into consideration what lawyers from all parties say to the media outside court and after the hearing? My experience is that, that is not allowed. It's only what happens in ... read full comment
Are you suggesting that the Justices will be taking into consideration what lawyers from all parties say to the media outside court and after the hearing? My experience is that, that is not allowed. It's only what happens in court and during the hearing that must be considered by the bench. All those comments by NDC and NPP counsels outside court are propaganda that will be disregarded by the Justices.
SARPONG 10 years ago
But Kofi Dadzie was explaining what Tsatsu did in court and his intention. Dadzie is not an ordinary lawyer but he and Dawuda are introduced as part of the NDC lawyers in court. Tsatsu introduced that pink sheet to show that ... read full comment
But Kofi Dadzie was explaining what Tsatsu did in court and his intention. Dadzie is not an ordinary lawyer but he and Dawuda are introduced as part of the NDC lawyers in court. Tsatsu introduced that pink sheet to show that there was over voting that happened in Ashanti region as if Ashanti region elections was conducted by NPP and not the EC. The fact that over voting happened in Ashanti region does not mean the beneficiary was Nana Akuffo Addo, it could and more likely the beneficiary was Mahama. This shows how intelligent these lawyers are.
Whatever 10 years ago
I listen to Ato Dazie, he and Dawuda never ever, ever said or even suggested that. Stop using daily guide nonsense and joyfm spin rubbish as your reference because we know they fabricated that story. NDC filed an affidavit in ... read full comment
I listen to Ato Dazie, he and Dawuda never ever, ever said or even suggested that. Stop using daily guide nonsense and joyfm spin rubbish as your reference because we know they fabricated that story. NDC filed an affidavit in court, refuting all the claims Bawumia has made and through Tsatsu, tried introducing pink sheets, in fact a lot of them, to prove that they were clerical errors which was non-discriminatory because Akufo Addo benefited from that same errors. NPP Successfully blocked that move. Despite that, the court has taking JUDICIAL NOTICE of it. Concentrate on what is in court because we know the kind of twist certain bias media houses put on comments made by their political targets to lift the spirits of their supporters
Yaw B 10 years ago
Mr. Whatever, kindly respect the rest of us on this forum. I watched and heard Nana Ato Dadzie saying the NDC legal team will also prove that over voting occurred in both Eastern and Ashanti Regions and that the NPP were show ... read full comment
Mr. Whatever, kindly respect the rest of us on this forum. I watched and heard Nana Ato Dadzie saying the NDC legal team will also prove that over voting occurred in both Eastern and Ashanti Regions and that the NPP were showing bad faith. The NDC started retreating after many commentators pointed out that Tsatsu's reference made the NPP's case stronger as it confirms that the election was poorly conducted. Please don't try to deceive us with propaganda because it won't wash.
Kofi 10 years ago
By that "Asokwa pink sheet", Tsatsu sought to get the judges approve and confirm either of two things:
1. That the "irregularities" Dr. Bawumiah has been seeking to prove are in actual fact mere errors on the part of the ... read full comment
By that "Asokwa pink sheet", Tsatsu sought to get the judges approve and confirm either of two things:
1. That the "irregularities" Dr. Bawumiah has been seeking to prove are in actual fact mere errors on the part of the officials, and that they did not in any way affect the tally of votes. Tsatsu was, therefore, giving as a clear example the "Asokwa pink sheet", results of which NOBODY could ever interpret as the "EC deliberately rigging in favour of JDM".
2. That if the "irregularities" should be interpreted by the SC as overvoting as being insisted by Dr. Bawumia, then there were many other polling stations with similar "irregularities" which were deliberately left out of the list by the petitioners because the votes there were mainly in favour of Nana Addo. Such act by the petitioners would only prove of the bad faith and selfish interest with which they went about the whole petition and therefore render their case not credible.
So you see, Mr. Cardinal Figure-Out Ghanavia Sarpong, it is a win-win for Tsatsu.
Kosoko 10 years ago
With all due respect, your response deviates from Amuna’s submission. First, if you really want to be taking serious, please desist from 'characterization. Tsikata has never opined anywhere that he is a law luminary. His c ... read full comment
With all due respect, your response deviates from Amuna’s submission. First, if you really want to be taking serious, please desist from 'characterization. Tsikata has never opined anywhere that he is a law luminary. His contemporaries say so. If you have a problem with that; it should be another matter. Second, did the witness evade questions already in the public domain? Law court is not a political platform. And for clarity, Tsikata never said that over voting occurred in Ashanti and Eastern. He only drew the attention of the witness to the fact that his (witness) definition of over-voting and irregularity also occurred in Ashanti and Eastern and wanted to know why petitioners did not add that to their case.
SARPONG 10 years ago
He showed the Asokwa pink sheet to show that there was over voting that went on in Ashanti region. His chief pompom waving sidekick, Ato Dadzie held a press conference outside court to hammer that point in that, they will sh ... read full comment
He showed the Asokwa pink sheet to show that there was over voting that went on in Ashanti region. His chief pompom waving sidekick, Ato Dadzie held a press conference outside court to hammer that point in that, they will show that over voting and other irregularities occurred in those two regions.
Kofi, do you remember the Asokwa pink sheet he introduced to the court showing that was over voting in Ashanti Region but Dr Bawumiah intentionally did not include them in his analysis? You don't call that an admission of accepting over voting? Even the NDC court room lawyer who acts as its spokesman, Ato Dadzie boasted that they will show that over voting occurred in Ashanti and Eastern regions. Kofi, below are quotes from Nana Ato Dazie after Tsatsu had introduced a pink sheet from Asokwa primary school in Asokwa constituency in Ashanti region showing over voting and another NDC Lawyer Adawuda admitting that massive irregularities occured due to poor training of EC officials.
"Ato Dadzie went ahead to say that, the ruling now meant NDC could now forage into the votes of the strongholds of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).He said incursions by respondents into opposition areas will prove over-voting. They would also call for annulment in their strongholds. He then called for every pink sheet to be examined.
"The legal team of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the ongoing election petition hearing has served notice they will question results declared in the opposition stronghold of Ashanti region and others.Speaking to Joy News, a leading member of the party’s legal team, Nana Ato Dadzie said they will now use the court’s ruling as a basis to introduce evidence about the conduct of the 2012 polls in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) stronghold of Ashanti and Eastern Region.We also want to know the Ashanti votes… we want to know what results came out from Eastern region...” Ato Dadzie insisted."
"NDC Lawyer Victor Kojogah Adawudu found it very intriguing why the petitioners only picked polling stations where President Mahama won when in fact similar alleged irregularities occurred in their strongholds.He was of the opinion that the entire 2012 general election results were marred with errors as a result of the ‘ignorance’ of some staff of the Electoral Commission. Lawyer Adawudu said the NDC will prove to the Justices that massive irregularities occurred at polling stations won by Akufo-Addo but for political expediency they [petitioners] hid it from Ghanaians."
Yeabr3 _Mo 10 years ago
Setting foot in the witness box,had examined his 'future options',and had decided to 'go for broke'!
Why do you think he kept making repeated references to a 'bogus analysis' thinking a wily fox like Tsatsu,who is many light ... read full comment
Setting foot in the witness box,had examined his 'future options',and had decided to 'go for broke'!
Why do you think he kept making repeated references to a 'bogus analysis' thinking a wily fox like Tsatsu,who is many light years ahead of him,as going to take the bait?
But is Bawumiah the only culprit in this national disgrace? Hell no!
why do think Philip Addision would streneously invoke the attorney-client privilege,when Tsikata wanted to find out the composition of the so-called committe which 'invited' the categories od infractions that formed the basis of his much-heralded analysis? Look at the long list of characters,including a coterie of young lwayers,or should we call them 'turks' who are pushing this petition in the SC. Do any of these individuals really care of "honesty", "truth","intergrity", values- sets that our society urgently reqiures to make a forward march?
But beyond Bawumiah and his buch of sore losers,I firmly believe the final decision of the SC,will bring into the open certain errorneous assumptions about the administration of justice in this country. I will not want to go any futher than to say,let`s all keep watching,as things unfold!
KANOKWARE.... 10 years ago
DR.BAWUMIA IS HONEST AND PRESIDENT TO BE IN GHANA.HE IS NOT AFRAID TO SPEAK THE TRUTH,,,,,I LIKE HIM...
DR.BAWUMIA IS HONEST AND PRESIDENT TO BE IN GHANA.HE IS NOT AFRAID TO SPEAK THE TRUTH,,,,,I LIKE HIM...
ADOMBA 10 years ago
KANOKWARE, YOU DID NOT LIVE UP TO YOUR NAME, A SAD THING TO SAY, WILL YOU IN YOUR HEART OF HEARTS SAY BAWUMIA WAS HONEST. THEN YOUR JUDGEMENT IS MESSED UP YOU NEED TO RENEW YOUR MIND
KANOKWARE, YOU DID NOT LIVE UP TO YOUR NAME, A SAD THING TO SAY, WILL YOU IN YOUR HEART OF HEARTS SAY BAWUMIA WAS HONEST. THEN YOUR JUDGEMENT IS MESSED UP YOU NEED TO RENEW YOUR MIND
Chabba 10 years ago
Your analysis is nonsense. Of course you are a hard core NDC so what should we expect from you? Your useless defence of untenable election fraud by Mahama and NDC will surely fail. People of Ata Kofi's stripe are the reason w ... read full comment
Your analysis is nonsense. Of course you are a hard core NDC so what should we expect from you? Your useless defence of untenable election fraud by Mahama and NDC will surely fail. People of Ata Kofi's stripe are the reason why Ghana is retrogressing so fast in terms of progress and development due to their greed,dishonesty and deceit.
Paul Amuna 10 years ago
Must you condemn others for their opinions? This has nothing to do with NDC but for your information, the writer has been consistent in his objective approach to analysis of important matters of State or national interest.
... read full comment
Must you condemn others for their opinions? This has nothing to do with NDC but for your information, the writer has been consistent in his objective approach to analysis of important matters of State or national interest.
You are wrong to characterise Kofi Ata the way you do and in any case, if you disagree with any of his views, why not specifically point these out and give your own take on the issues?
Why do some of you simply think that your job is to 'scan' the forum for articles that do not support your thought processes and single them out for condemnation? You belittle yourself and in fact are a disgrace. If you have nothing sensible to contribute, simply hold your peace and stop bringing your frustration to this forum!
MR. FIGURE - OUT 10 years ago
" Mpaninfuo se," s3 wo de kokromoti k) ayie a y3 de sotro gya wo kwan" which literally translate as " dirty slaps to your cheeks is the necessary comeuppance or the befitting punishment for going to funeral empty handed and c ... read full comment
" Mpaninfuo se," s3 wo de kokromoti k) ayie a y3 de sotro gya wo kwan" which literally translate as " dirty slaps to your cheeks is the necessary comeuppance or the befitting punishment for going to funeral empty handed and contributing nothing". The caption of this article is very mischievous, misleading and has expose the writer of his hidden intentions and ill-wishes for the petitioners in the case at hand. Check this out; "Is Bawumia denying what is public knowledge when wide publicity was given to both the declaration and the Peace Council press conference? Was he the only stranger in Jerusalem or is he been clever just for the sake of his petition or ambition? Does he care about his reputation and goodwill after the petition? Sometimes, his answers have been baffling and it came as no surprise to me when the Presiding Justice reminded him that, he was a clever person with a doctorate degree and should help the court. I interpreted that to mean a reprimand for his some of his denials of the obvious." This portion alone from the article make the caption very stupid since he could have rather titled it as 'Dr Bawumia is Dishonest' instead of 'Is Dr Bawumia Dishonest?'.
Solomon Dormenyo Quist 10 years ago
Kofi Atta's caption is a rhetorical question. Everything thereafter in a question form is RHETORICAL. Didn't you get it wrong this time?
It is so sad and almost becoming an integral part of the Ghanaian psyche that, when y ... read full comment
Kofi Atta's caption is a rhetorical question. Everything thereafter in a question form is RHETORICAL. Didn't you get it wrong this time?
It is so sad and almost becoming an integral part of the Ghanaian psyche that, when your opinion is at variance to that of others, they they either smother you with profanity or pigeonhole you as someone with a hidden agenda or belonging to the other camp.
Whenever one enters other forums, it is like a whiff of fresh air from the pollution of what is Ghanaweb. Other forums are enlightening and educative.
On one, I was was pleasantly surprised to learn about the demographic distribution viewed against the statistical ratio of crime in the country. What was surprising was the fact that, instead of ethnicity (such as tribe in Ghana) being the culprit, socio-economic forces/factors were ably used to explain the scourge in the society.
The habit of understanding a person's line of thought or views using as a point of departure, our prejudices, pre-conceptions etc etc (or as some will put it, with the monkey on our back)diminishes our ability to properly contextualize and decode the message.
Will I be wrong to say that you are not apolitical in your comment?
Omanba, Chicago, IL 10 years ago
Mr. to the best of my knowledge, your write-up tells me that you are an NDC supporter. Dr Bawumia is an intellectual, the like of which has not been found in Ghana in modern times. If a lawyer asks a question which is irrelev ... read full comment
Mr. to the best of my knowledge, your write-up tells me that you are an NDC supporter. Dr Bawumia is an intellectual, the like of which has not been found in Ghana in modern times. If a lawyer asks a question which is irrelevant, and has no bearing on the case at hand, how do you want an intellectual like Bawumia to answer? Whether he knows who the one the party chose to represent them in the Strong Room or not is irrelevant. The case he presented before the Supreme Court is that there were series of irregularities,over-voting, people allowing to vote without biometric verification. These were the major grievances presented to the Sureme Court. Whether he knew of the person who the party chose to represent them in the Strong Room is immaterial and does not in any way help solve or answer the petition or evidence before the court that was why, in my opinion, he answered that question the way he did. On the question on why the NPP agents did not raise an objection or question when they were not satisfied with some of the things done by the Commission, have you forgotten my der Atta Kofi from Cambridge, that in one instant, they(NPP) questioned about something and the Electoral Commission told them they can to take them to court? Now that the Commission has been hauld to court, why should they cry foul? To conclude what made me to poke my nose into this conversation, I think it's right for Dr Bawumia to give some of the answers he has been giving in order to prevent or dismantle some of the techniques or plots lawyers use to get their ways through with those laymen who who are not conversant the law.
Paul Amuna 10 years ago
Clearly you have not read Kofi Ata's article fully, and / or nor have you understood the main thrust of it.
As you so ignorant? and whilst we are at it, perhaps it is your level of ignorance, lack of proper understanding ... read full comment
Clearly you have not read Kofi Ata's article fully, and / or nor have you understood the main thrust of it.
As you so ignorant? and whilst we are at it, perhaps it is your level of ignorance, lack of proper understanding of these court issues and blinded by your own partisanship that makes you to sea Bawumia is such a 'rare breed of intellectual/ in Ghana. You also forget that Kofi ~Ata is not just another commentator but one who is well qualified and well versed in matters of court proceedings.
Finally, I don't know how many times you guys have to be reminded that Kofi Ata is NOT AN NDC MAN and that his writings are consistent and fair. The fact that content is critical of any one side is because that is what the observations point to, and not because tha man is partisan like you.
SARPONG 10 years ago
Paul Amuna, Kofi Ata has been fair in his articles when it comes to politics and I doff my hat to him and that is why I respect him though I don't always agree with him but for you to shout that Kofi Ata is not an NDC man sho ... read full comment
Paul Amuna, Kofi Ata has been fair in his articles when it comes to politics and I doff my hat to him and that is why I respect him though I don't always agree with him but for you to shout that Kofi Ata is not an NDC man shows that you don't know him and you should not authoritatively say with emphasis that he is not an NDC man when the man served in the PNDC and through the benevolence of PNDC scholarship ended up in Bulgaria onward to England. Paul, don't say things you don't know.
Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 10 years ago
SARPONG, yes, it is true that I worked for PDNC and have former colleagues who are NDC ministers, MPs, District Chief Executives, heads of state institutions and do keep in touch with a few. However, I can tell you most of th ... read full comment
SARPONG, yes, it is true that I worked for PDNC and have former colleagues who are NDC ministers, MPs, District Chief Executives, heads of state institutions and do keep in touch with a few. However, I can tell you most of them see me as anti-NDC through my articles. They believe that I have changed in England and even formed alliance with NPP or become a right wing political ideologue. I am happy for both NDC and NPP to fight over my political stand when it comes to debating socio-economic issues in Ghana. Oh! I also have school mates who are staunch NPP members, MPs and supporters including Prof Ken Attafuah.
Paul Amuna 10 years ago
Cardinal I hope this answers your question about my opinion of Kofi. Shall we lay this matter to rest once and for all an focus on the merits of his ( and other people's) opinions outside of party and tribal characterisations ... read full comment
Cardinal I hope this answers your question about my opinion of Kofi. Shall we lay this matter to rest once and for all an focus on the merits of his ( and other people's) opinions outside of party and tribal characterisations?
SARPONG 10 years ago
Yes we can lay it to rest but Kofi Ata as a official of PNDC who benefitted with scholarship to Bulgaria cannot say that because he writes articles that are considered objective compared to Margaret Jackson does not tilt to N ... read full comment
Yes we can lay it to rest but Kofi Ata as a official of PNDC who benefitted with scholarship to Bulgaria cannot say that because he writes articles that are considered objective compared to Margaret Jackson does not tilt to NDC more than NPP and he will admit that too knowing my friend Kofi.
I don't think you knew that part of Kofi Ata's background before you said empathically that he was not an NDC. Even Kofi Atta has not denied by this post that he does not tilt towards NDC.
Saying you have friends in NPP does not change anything because I also know Ohene Agyekum as my Uncles friend and a family friend. Former NDC Deputy Minister of Agruculture in the Rawlings regime, Adu Mensah was also a friend likewise the Former Brong Ahafo deputy Regional Minister who died on Accra Kumasi road in car accident, Kojo Maama was a friend too having been his junior in secondary school, it does not mean anything because I have a lot of friends in NDC too holding important positions. Kyeremeh Djan, the brother of Boakye Djan was my friend though I was in form two when he was in sixth form and was the junior fetched his water or food from dininh hall for him.
Paul Amuna 10 years ago
Cardinal, I agree with you Kofi's leanings are towards the NDC. Equally you will agree that his articles have largely been fair, balanced and objective (even if the issues here are mostly against the NPP's witness).
You a ... read full comment
Cardinal, I agree with you Kofi's leanings are towards the NDC. Equally you will agree that his articles have largely been fair, balanced and objective (even if the issues here are mostly against the NPP's witness).
You are right I should not have been as 'emphatic' as I was about his party affiliation but my statement was based primarily on my assessment of his opinions on this forum, and did not take his past into account. Thanks for letting me a know a bit about Kofi's 'history'
That said, he has been balanced and I can also see why he intentionally poses rhetorical questions and somehow refuses to take a definite position (I guess to avoid a conflict of interest).
On my part, I have no history, nor association with any of the parties and among people I have close association with were Ameyaw Ekumfi, Dr Kufour (brother of the former president) and for a brief period, Arthur Kennedy (whom I advised for a brief period during his brief attempt at leadership of the NPP). I have been involved in a number of projects in Ghana under both governments and most certainly for several years during the Kufour administration.
Most of my current work however is more continental and is mainly on capacity building and professional development within the health sector and education. For me, it does not matter who is running the country as long as there is peace, unity, mutual regard and respect and good governance.
I want a Ghana devoid of tribalism, religious and other forms of bigotry and one that seeks to emancipate our people irrespective of background, but more on discovering and nurturing talent. Frankly I don't care if a "Northerner" is president or not, but will defend any leader who is worth his/her salt.
If that person happens to be of Northern extraction and is being attacked by others, I will openly come to their defence, not because I have my roots in the North but because I see those attacks as unfair and disrespectful. I did the same for Mills and will do it for Nana Addo if he were president.
My views about Bawumia are purely because he has a track record of what I regard as intellectual dishonesty (someone called it selective amnesia), and my views are not primarily because of this present petition.
I am also vehemently opposed to tribalism and tribal name-calling hence my robust defence when this matter has surfaced on this forum.
I hope we can respect each other and work together for the sake of the one and only country that we are all proud to belong to (even if we have other nationalities as well).
I am proud to have made a little difference in the lives of people including Akan friends both in Ghana and in the diaspora, all of whom are now very comfortable professionals in their own right. That is more important to me and I don't see them from their tribal backgrounds.
ADOMBA 10 years ago
OMAMBA YOU ARE WRONG, MAKING SOMETHING OUT THIS INTELLECTUAL DISHONEST GUY CALLED BAWUMIA IS POOR JUDGEMENT, THERE ARE SMARTER PEOPLE IN THE COUNTRY THAN HIM, BUT THEY ARE QUIET AND HUMBLE GOING ABOUT THEIR WORK TO HELP BUILD ... read full comment
OMAMBA YOU ARE WRONG, MAKING SOMETHING OUT THIS INTELLECTUAL DISHONEST GUY CALLED BAWUMIA IS POOR JUDGEMENT, THERE ARE SMARTER PEOPLE IN THE COUNTRY THAN HIM, BUT THEY ARE QUIET AND HUMBLE GOING ABOUT THEIR WORK TO HELP BUILD OUR COUNTRY
Victor A. Young 10 years ago
No! Dr. Bawumia is an honest guy; he's genuinely passionate about the fortunes and the future of Ghana. Who says Dr. Bawumia is dishonest? That person should rather examine him/herself before pointing accusing fingures at Dr. ... read full comment
No! Dr. Bawumia is an honest guy; he's genuinely passionate about the fortunes and the future of Ghana. Who says Dr. Bawumia is dishonest? That person should rather examine him/herself before pointing accusing fingures at Dr. Bawumia.
Paul Amuna 10 years ago
He may be "honest" in your eyees, but is certainly NOT "passionate about the fortunes and future of Ghana " but in my view his own narrow, partisan and personal parochial interests. At least to me and I suspect many others, t ... read full comment
He may be "honest" in your eyees, but is certainly NOT "passionate about the fortunes and future of Ghana " but in my view his own narrow, partisan and personal parochial interests. At least to me and I suspect many others, that is how he appears, but of course we are all entitled to our views.
Pxia 10 years ago
Paul,I totally agree with your assessment and conclusion drawn on Dr Bawumia.You are sport on,in line with others as demonstrated by his speech on 2nd of May 2012 and the responses to it as reported by Justice Lee on Ghanaw ... read full comment
Paul,I totally agree with your assessment and conclusion drawn on Dr Bawumia.You are sport on,in line with others as demonstrated by his speech on 2nd of May 2012 and the responses to it as reported by Justice Lee on Ghanaweb on 28th November 2012. Bawumia's theme was “The true State of the Economy” delivered at the Ferdinand Ayin Memorial Lectures.In that speech Bawumia appears to have arbitrarily changed the general accepted basis of compillation of the inflation Statistics/index. In response,Mr Kofi Agyeman-Manu, Acting Deputy Government Statistician was reported "Bawumia’s and his cohorts choose to engage in deliberate intellectual dishonesty to feather their political nests," He further described DR Bawumia as "making a vain attempt in self aggrandizement" and in addition of "exhibiting sudden amnesia" as we also saw recently in his court testimony. Justice Lee reported, "some experts express disgust at the way the economist-turned politician was handling crucial national issues.Experienced economists have started pointing out, albeit privately, the clarity in the lie Bawumia told during the IEA debate when he claimed that GSS “is now trying to correct the mistake after I pointed it out to them.”Lee continued,
"Indeed, political and economic analysts believe Dr. Bawumia knows the lie in what he had been propagating, but in his quest to be Vice President at all cost chose to indulge in deliberate distortion of facts and lie his way to the castle." To put this critisms in context, here is what former President J.A.Kufuor said "people have done all sorts of things to secure power. Some will kill, some will lie, some would do anything, anything, buy to get the power". Here is more the speech quoted. "Anybody wanting to lead us must submit to our choice; we must vote for him or her to become President just like when we get fed up with him, we go again to vote to take him out of power to put another person there...from history, people have done all sorts of things to secure power. Some will kill, some will lie, some would do anything, anything, buy to get the power... but power belongs to the people,”.(J A Kufuor-"Power Belongs To the People"-KNUST Hall Kumasi Tuesday- Ghanaweb 28th November 2012)
Please read the full articles in context on Ghanaweb-1. Bawumia-"Bawumia punched …, By NDC’s strong economic record" 28th November 2012
2.President J.A.kufour-"Power Belongs to The People"- 28th November 2012
Paul Amuna 10 years ago
I thank you most sincerely for providing some of the evidence in respect of Dr Bawumia's character which to me is most worrying. I have a copy of the Full text of his lecture on May 2 2012 and the more you read it, the more y ... read full comment
I thank you most sincerely for providing some of the evidence in respect of Dr Bawumia's character which to me is most worrying. I have a copy of the Full text of his lecture on May 2 2012 and the more you read it, the more you get disappointed, that someone could be so selective in his data, analysis and interpretation.
For those party 'enthusiasts' who are not aware of this and think that some of us are doing this because we support NDC, I don't blame them and can only hope that somehow they put their 'party hats' aside and really study Bawumia carefully.
As a fellow "Northerner", honestly I am profoundly saddened and disappointed that he should stoop so low but I can only conclude that this has been his character for a long, long time. These attributes are not picked up just for political expediency.
The argument that "politicians are liars or economical with the truth" does not in any way justify such blatant and sometimes childish lies and open dishonesty. I also believe that if we are talking about good governance, democracy and tackling corruption, I simply cannot see how "leaders" such as Bawumia who are so blatantly dishonest or evasive can ;lead us in that fight.
I believe it is time we started to demand honesty from our leaders and those who seek to lead. If we fail to do so and to demand that people in their analyses of the country's situation must at all times tell us the truth, we will forever remain backward.
We have an opportunity to make our democracy work better and to demonstrate to other countries around us that it pays to be honest and for the nation to have integrity, starting with our leaders who must lead by example.
Bawumia is certainly NOT leading by example (or his example is dangerous for our national dialogue and progress).
Yaw B 10 years ago
Mr. Amuna, who in NDC is honest? Kindly mention one person including those who have died. If Bawumia is dangerous to Ghana then I believe Mills/Mahama were/are evil men of the country. The fact that Bawumia did not tow Tsatsu ... read full comment
Mr. Amuna, who in NDC is honest? Kindly mention one person including those who have died. If Bawumia is dangerous to Ghana then I believe Mills/Mahama were/are evil men of the country. The fact that Bawumia did not tow Tsatsu's line of absurdity doesn't make him dishonest.
If truth means so much to you, then I advice you you to withdraw your support for the NDC because even at the point of death, a sitting President who is a Professor lied and died foolishly when he could have lived longer.
Again the NDC is the only party I know that has a propaganda office so it baffles me why people who consider themselves truthful and God-fearing will follow them. Or is it the case that tribal emotions are stronger than religious emotions? Or is it a case that you see the NPP as more respectful than your preferred NDC so much that you're disappointed to believe a member from the NPP lied?
Finally, let me remind you and the rest of you NDC supporters that this Court case is not a battle between Northerners and Southerners. You know that none of Mahama's leading counsels come from the North. It is about ideology, so I get sick when I read many comments from NDC supporters that Bawumia is being used. That in my opinion suggests that Bawumia and northerners are inferior to Akans/NPP. If I were you I would be proud to have such an intelligent handsome man from my part of the country instead of raining insults on him simply because he has pitched camp with a nonexistent enemy.
You are what you see in yourself. Nobody hates northerners, so please don't reduce every political issue to "Akans against northerners". That delusion of persecution will destroy you if you don't put a stop to it.
Paul Amuna 10 years ago
Let me get you out of your misery - I do not belong to, and have NEVER belonged to the NDC. It is a pity that you try to tie me to a party that I am not a part of, nor am I interested in joining. I believe I am one of very fe ... read full comment
Let me get you out of your misery - I do not belong to, and have NEVER belonged to the NDC. It is a pity that you try to tie me to a party that I am not a part of, nor am I interested in joining. I believe I am one of very few people on this forum who are non-partisan commentators or contributors.
Can I also remind you that if you take the scales off your eyes, you will see clearly that Bawumia was not telling the truth.
He had every opportunity to be truthful and yet put things in context and then press home his point of focus which is why they are in court. He missed those opportunities and (whether advised by his counsels, I don't know) insisted on 'sticking to his guns'. What a pity. Yet his dishonesty dates further back.
Once again, can I educate you that I only seek the truth and what will strengthen our democracy and improve our electoral processes for the future. For the umpteenth plus one time, I DO NOT BELONG TO THE NDC OR ANY OTHER PARTY FOR THAT MATTER. Please stop associating me with any party.
You ask me to give you one honest person in NDC. I am waiting for their winess(es) to take the stand in court and if they are not telling the truth, you bet, I'll not be silent!
Yaw B 10 years ago
You could have made your points without using invectives on me. I won't contest you on your assertion that you don't sympathize with any party, though I strongly believe every person in this world has a preference whenever he ... read full comment
You could have made your points without using invectives on me. I won't contest you on your assertion that you don't sympathize with any party, though I strongly believe every person in this world has a preference whenever he is confronted with more than one option. And I must say I am comforted with the knowledge that I've encountered one Ghanaian who seeks truth on Ghanaweb. I shall be looking out for your comments from now on. I can bet you! That is unless you change your moniker name.
Paul Amuna 10 years ago
Thanks Yaw B. With me, what you see is exactly what you get and yes, my name is exactly as presented here on this forum and will not change for any reason.
Thanks Yaw B. With me, what you see is exactly what you get and yes, my name is exactly as presented here on this forum and will not change for any reason.
AYISAM 10 years ago
Kofi you've moved away from being an objective analyst and now playing to the gallery.
Dr. Bawumiah is challenging all the counsels to read his analysis based on what is on the face of the pink sheet. So far non of the res ... read full comment
Kofi you've moved away from being an objective analyst and now playing to the gallery.
Dr. Bawumiah is challenging all the counsels to read his analysis based on what is on the face of the pink sheet. So far non of the respondent's counsels have taken up the challenge. HAVE YOU DONE YOUR OWN ANALYSIS BASED ON WHAT IS ON THE FACE OF THE PINK SHEETS? Or like the respondents counsels you're equally mathematically handicap, you could get a good statistician at Cambridge to help unravel the meaning of Dr. Bawumiah' s analysis. Good luck.
Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 10 years ago
AYISAM, the article was not about Dr Bawumia's analysis of the pink sheets as contained on the CD. I posed a question and analysed three of his answers under cross examination. Where does my mathematical handicap comes in?
AYISAM, the article was not about Dr Bawumia's analysis of the pink sheets as contained on the CD. I posed a question and analysed three of his answers under cross examination. Where does my mathematical handicap comes in?
AMICUS LAWYER 10 years ago
SENSELESS ARTICLE WRITTEN BY FOOL
SENSELESS ARTICLE WRITTEN BY FOOL
LONTO-BOY 10 years ago
When arguments fail you, insult those with whom you disagree. That makes you intelligent and matured, isn't it? Next time, scroll past if you don't want to read it.
When arguments fail you, insult those with whom you disagree. That makes you intelligent and matured, isn't it? Next time, scroll past if you don't want to read it.
LONTO-BOY 10 years ago
MASSA KOFI, personally, I believe Dr Bawumia is a straightforward and honest man. However, I don't think in the broad context of Dr Bawumia's testimony and performance at the Supreme Court, he has actually shown himself to be ... read full comment
MASSA KOFI, personally, I believe Dr Bawumia is a straightforward and honest man. However, I don't think in the broad context of Dr Bawumia's testimony and performance at the Supreme Court, he has actually shown himself to be dishonest and deliberately devious. I don't think it is good to go down the road of impugning Dr Bawumia's personal integrity and sincerity on the basis of some of his evasive responses and on the grounds of NPP's evidence.
Unless Dr Bawumia is personally charged by the Supreme Court on series of false claims so deliberately calculated and devious to deceive the court and lying under oath, it would be malicious to suggest he's dishonest. I think there's a world of difference between being EVASIVE and DISHONEST in this context.
Sipri 10 years ago
It's Bawumia's life and actions as a politician that are under consideration here not what he tells his wife in the privacy of his home. And as a politician, he's almost by definition, dishonest. But the thing too is that pol ... read full comment
It's Bawumia's life and actions as a politician that are under consideration here not what he tells his wife in the privacy of his home. And as a politician, he's almost by definition, dishonest. But the thing too is that politicians tell lies so often that it may even spill over into their private lifes. This applies to ALL politicians, not only NPP and NDC ones.
Fire Burn U 10 years ago
Stupid questions demand stupid answers; desperate times call for desperate measures; if you subject a witness to such unnecessary and irrelevant marathon, you shouldn't complain about some of his responses.
Bawumia has so ... read full comment
Stupid questions demand stupid answers; desperate times call for desperate measures; if you subject a witness to such unnecessary and irrelevant marathon, you shouldn't complain about some of his responses.
Bawumia has so far out-witted and out-shone Tsastu. The question about whether he was aware or not what Sir John said about NPP winning was completely irrelevant. Whether Bawumia answered Yes or No would not affect the petition. Therefore Bawumia was helping the court in saying that the EC was the only one with the prerogative of declaring the result. In other words, whether Sir John said the NPP had won or not was irrelevant.
Many commentators here are not showing enough concern about the silly tactics being played out in court by Tsastu. Bawumia has been candid from day 1 about the duplicated and triplicated pink sheets, and mis-labelling. Of course, that doesn't help the Petitioners because it creates the impression that they did not take enough trouble to ensure their exhibits were all in order in such an important case, but beyond that, does any sensible person believe that this was a deliberate attempt to bump up the numbers to deceive the court? I don't think so. Thus I see no reason for nit-picking and persistently accusing the man of dishonesty when everyone knows the paper-work was just too much for one man to have scrutinised.
Bawumia says no duplication in the analysis. Why are we not asking for the analysis to see if there are duplications there as well? Why is Tsastu afraid of the analysis?
If you ignore the analysis and keep calling the man dishonest, then Addison is entitled to say 'that's rich coming from you' To me that was a huge insult to Tsastu but he glossed over it, and perhaps a lot of people did not fully understand what he meant. It was a good answer for all Tsastu's posturing and arrogance. He could not say a word about that. Good on Addison.
Paul Amuna 10 years ago
First of all the relevance of the question lies in Justice Atuguba's admonition of Dr Bawumia and contrary to your assertion, he was NOT "being helpful to the court".
Here is the relevance of the question: Owusu Afriyie g ... read full comment
First of all the relevance of the question lies in Justice Atuguba's admonition of Dr Bawumia and contrary to your assertion, he was NOT "being helpful to the court".
Here is the relevance of the question: Owusu Afriyie gave a 'press release' stating categorically, and with percentages that Nana Addo had won the presidential poll by 51 to Mahama's 47%, at a time when counting was still going on and the EC had not yet declared the results. Among others, the PEACE COUNCIL of Ghana protested and held a press conference to condemn that premature declaration.
The significance of his in this matter in court is that if the NPP General Secretary had FIGURES which he was using to justify his call for NPP supporters to in effect go out and celebrate victory the next day, what I believe counsel for 3rd respondent was (and is) trying to establish is that the NPP petitioners should be able to prove their figures and how they arrived at those calculations.
Since the witness (Bawumia) IS their 'analyst-in-chief and their "guru" or "god" as some (including Afriyie) have variously characterised him,then counsel was in his right to pose the question as it pertains to the very core issue of one telling their supporters at such a crucial stage in the electoral process in a significant national election that they had real figures which gave their candidate victory.
This very act contributed to the uproar and agitation of NPP supporters and is at the heart of this petition. Therefore for you to pretend that these were irrelevant questions is to be untruthful and frankly, plainly dishonest.
Honest they say is the best policy and for some of us on this forum, AL we ever wanted was that this case will play out honestly and clearly and help us improve the way we do things including our electoral processes and thereby strengthen our democracy. For me personally, it is not about winners and losers at all cost.
It is disappointing to me that a star witness of some academic stature such as Dr Bawumia would intentionally give false answers to questions just because he (being intelligent) knows full well the implications of giving the correct answers sought.
Sadly for him, this particular behaviour of his has not endeared him to many a neutral Ghanaian and I suspect it will have long lasting damage to his credibility as a leader and were he to stand for high office e.g. president in the future, his opponents are likely to use this against him, whatever the outcome of this current petition.
If you are truly interested in the national unity and us moving forward as a country, please stop this rather blind approach to seeing things and the winner at all cost mentality, and tell Bawumia that as well.
Amma 10 years ago
What a telling summary!My view entirely on this whole petition. Looking at the way this petition has been conducted, what chance in hell does any voter have in challenging a presidential election as provided for in the consti ... read full comment
What a telling summary!My view entirely on this whole petition. Looking at the way this petition has been conducted, what chance in hell does any voter have in challenging a presidential election as provided for in the constitution? Voters will need their personal polling agents in order to question the conduct of a presidential election by the logic so far put forward by the Defence. If the Petitioners hadn't made their mislabelling and provided repetitive exhibits errors, I wonder what the Defence would have to say,as seems to me that is the main defence so far. The Petitioners are lucky to have Bawumia's grasp of the pink sheets and also the inclination to give as good as he gets, otherwise the case would have minced by now. Can you imagine how a layperson would have fared? This is hardly fair, and it seems to me a democratic system as ours offer that can countenance a person holding the highest office errorneously if only for a day is counterintuitive.
Paul Amuna 10 years ago
Despite the liberties taken by witness and counsels on both sides, may I remind you that we have not even come to the core issue at stake in this petition? Don't be misled.
The issues about polling agents, pink sheets etc ... read full comment
Despite the liberties taken by witness and counsels on both sides, may I remind you that we have not even come to the core issue at stake in this petition? Don't be misled.
The issues about polling agents, pink sheets etc. was merely to establish a basis for whether there is "gross malpractice, administrative errors" etc. to merit the petitioners demanding that the votes of over 4 million human beings who actually voted be annulled for violations. These are not ghost names but real human beings who actually voted. So you see, you are not really following the case properly.
There is no attempt to make people's vote not count, but rather the respondents are 'defending' the votes cast and arguing that if there were errors ( as appears to be the case), those errors were not the making of the winner and in any case, were not calculated to disadvantage any particular candidate and certainly not so widespread as to bring the outcome of the poll into doubt. I hope you will follow the case with an open mind.
Amma 10 years ago
Please get off your high horse! In my view you have been waxing lyrical and attempting to stifle anybody who has an opposing view, with silly put downs, whilst pretending to be high-minded. I have followed the case all right ... read full comment
Please get off your high horse! In my view you have been waxing lyrical and attempting to stifle anybody who has an opposing view, with silly put downs, whilst pretending to be high-minded. I have followed the case all right and I needn't have any more of an open mind than I already have. You certainly dont have an open mind if you think Bawumia is all the description you have written about him. You have no right to patronise anybody no matter how you see yourself. I have two brain cells to rub together and I certainly dont need your help, the other Ghanaians whom you have helped may need you I dont.
Paul Amuna 10 years ago
Thank you most kindly. I am sorry but I don't mean to be patronising. I was rather surprised you seem to accept Sarpong's take on issues to you, yet to sound offended by mine. Clearly you have your own interests and of course ... read full comment
Thank you most kindly. I am sorry but I don't mean to be patronising. I was rather surprised you seem to accept Sarpong's take on issues to you, yet to sound offended by mine. Clearly you have your own interests and of course you are entitled to your views and don't have to accept mine.
KB 10 years ago
THAT'S SaRPONG.
THAT'S SaRPONG.
Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 10 years ago
LONTO-BOY, though you may be right I disagree with you that, it would be malicious to suggest that some of his answers are dishonest. For example, Dr Bawumia would have done himself a lot of credit if he had admitted that he ... read full comment
LONTO-BOY, though you may be right I disagree with you that, it would be malicious to suggest that some of his answers are dishonest. For example, Dr Bawumia would have done himself a lot of credit if he had admitted that he was aware of the NPP General Secretary's declaration but it's the Chairman of EC who declares the presidential result. Because doing so would have meant open criticism or disagreement with the General Secretary, he decided to deny knowledge of it.
I only posed a question and provided three examples for discussion. I am still of the view that, only time will answer the question. Again, as the examples I gave and others have said in their comments, politicians are always economical with the truth and Bawumia is no different.
One thing for certain is that, if NPP wins the petition, Bawumia will be a hero. On the other hand, if the petition is lost, the very people who are singing Hosanna, Hosanna to Bawumia will change their tune and sing, crucify him, crucify him. Whether he is being evasive, economical with the truth or dishonest, it's only the nine Justices will have the final say. We are just mere commentators.
Yeabr3 _Mo 10 years ago
Let me suggest to you that if a character trait is not part of your DNA,then it would NEVER manfest itself in anything you do,particularly if whatever it is you are engaged in is on public display!
Why would anybody who choo ... read full comment
Let me suggest to you that if a character trait is not part of your DNA,then it would NEVER manfest itself in anything you do,particularly if whatever it is you are engaged in is on public display!
Why would anybody who chooses to describe others as "being economica with the truth",a fine euphemism for a LIAR,himself take 'refuge' in long winded explanations,but refuse to give straighforward answers to questions like being aware of certain widely publicised pronouncements made by the NPP Gen-Sec,Owusu Afriyie?
Though I have not had any personal encounter with Bawuniah,his deamenor on the witness stand at the SC,is no different from previous public presentations - speech on the state of Ghana`s economy (2012); the NPP press confernece and presentation he gave about the 'substance' of their case; and matters involving the near fatal automobile accidente was was involved in a couple of months back - all lead me to see him as very calculating and patently dishonest!
TROUBLE-MAKER 10 years ago
Kofi,good observation and brilliant analysis.These same answers he gave are what the NPP supporters will be using to attack him if the petition fails.
He should be on his knees and praying to God for miracle for the petition ... read full comment
Kofi,good observation and brilliant analysis.These same answers he gave are what the NPP supporters will be using to attack him if the petition fails.
He should be on his knees and praying to God for miracle for the petition to be upheld(God Forbid Though)if not,Dr.Bawumia will be history in Ghana politics.
ABOAGYE 10 years ago
As to why this guy did not first of all think of his reputation before telling the court lies, only heaven knows. It was a shame seeing him in the box with such fake smile lying through the teeth. What is interesting is the f ... read full comment
As to why this guy did not first of all think of his reputation before telling the court lies, only heaven knows. It was a shame seeing him in the box with such fake smile lying through the teeth. What is interesting is the fact that, the NPP hailed him and continue to do so, and even went far to declare him as their god and whiz kid. Now, Ahoofe the lunatic said he is a very good presidential material than president Mahama. I don´t know why not Akufo Addo, the certificateless arrogant wee smoker. Bawumia is a pathological liar, and he will lie for all his life. Only clowns will believe that, the honourable judges would take his rubbish serious amd make him vice president of this country. I wonder what kind of vice president he would be with such character joined together with that of the chief criminal Akufo Addo. That is why we Ghanaians want nothing from them. A shameful and stupid ignorant Asante/Akyem anus licker like him.
Paul Amuna 10 years ago
Why do you have to resort to such vulgarities to make your point? It is wholly uncalled for. Pathological liar, yes I agree, but wee smoker and the rest, I wholly condmen.
Why do you have to resort to such vulgarities to make your point? It is wholly uncalled for. Pathological liar, yes I agree, but wee smoker and the rest, I wholly condmen.
Nyame Ekuma 10 years ago
I like that. Tsikata called him Dr.@Pink sheets. But i think we shd go for yours. Dr. PIG SHIT .
When Bad wool mia loses the case he shd smear his face and head with DWARF SHIT form the Akyem Galamsey ridden forest. Nonse ... read full comment
I like that. Tsikata called him Dr.@Pink sheets. But i think we shd go for yours. Dr. PIG SHIT .
When Bad wool mia loses the case he shd smear his face and head with DWARF SHIT form the Akyem Galamsey ridden forest. Nonsense
DAN 10 years ago
God punish you when he born you black(same color as feces,shit,crap,turds,scat).. And he born you in africa with dirty water,no lites, no gas...Nigger go back to banana tree you monkey
God punish you when he born you black(same color as feces,shit,crap,turds,scat).. And he born you in africa with dirty water,no lites, no gas...Nigger go back to banana tree you monkey
Booyaah 10 years ago
Glad to have you pointing the short falls of this armed chaired politician.What makes Bawumia a laughing stoke at the SC is the fact that .Bawumia can not substentiate the diffrence between a court room and working on economi ... read full comment
Glad to have you pointing the short falls of this armed chaired politician.What makes Bawumia a laughing stoke at the SC is the fact that .Bawumia can not substentiate the diffrence between a court room and working on economic analysis in an office.That prompted Atutagba cautioning his wisedom by letting help the nation find out the truth.
Bawumia is an entire disgrace.
bxb. 10 years ago
Are you sure ?
Are you sure ?
Tony 10 years ago
The comment is unfair to Dr. Bawumia' of whom even NDC supporters have hailed.
The comment is unfair to Dr. Bawumia' of whom even NDC supporters have hailed.
Yabah 10 years ago
Is it true that Some Bank managers at the Bank of Ghana who RESISTED THE STEALING OF OLD CEDIS during the re-denomination of the cedi in 2007 were sacked while the unlucky ones were shot dead by President Kufour’s DEATH-SQU ... read full comment
Is it true that Some Bank managers at the Bank of Ghana who RESISTED THE STEALING OF OLD CEDIS during the re-denomination of the cedi in 2007 were sacked while the unlucky ones were shot dead by President Kufour’s DEATH-SQUAD in 2007 before the NPP thugs looted billions of cedis from the Bank of Ghana.
GENERAL DeGAULE 10 years ago
On the rampage that Sammy Awuku and his mob caused at the premises of STL , Bawumia said he had no knowledge even though this was reported extensively in the media.
Asked what Akuffo Addo meant by administrative tasks in his ... read full comment
On the rampage that Sammy Awuku and his mob caused at the premises of STL , Bawumia said he had no knowledge even though this was reported extensively in the media.
Asked what Akuffo Addo meant by administrative tasks in his letter, he said the first petitioner meant malpractices.
Being evasive is not the same as being dishonest. Nonetheless it is his credibility that has suffered and he has been ill advised by counsel to assume a belligerent posture.
Wiseman 10 years ago
De Gaulle, I have admired your write-ups up to this moment.
What is “Truth”? What is a lie? Supposing one asks a question: will the sun rise tomorrow, the answer to this is an emphatic “YES”. Dancing around and cal ... read full comment
De Gaulle, I have admired your write-ups up to this moment.
What is “Truth”? What is a lie? Supposing one asks a question: will the sun rise tomorrow, the answer to this is an emphatic “YES”. Dancing around and calling it evasiveness undermines one’s subjective judgment. It is NOT being economical with the truth. For, what will prevent a person from answering YES if the answer is a foregone conclusion?
Dr. Bawumia was questioned if he was aware Sir John organized a press conference pre-empting the EC to announce electoral outcomes by declaring his party victorious. Soon after that the church council of Ghana also addressed a press conference condemning Sir John. Bawumia was in the country and this fact was debated wide and profoundly by everyone as it became the catchy blurb in the media at the time. So he couldn’t have ignored it.
Sometimes I find it hard and odious to believe some people in this world could spin lies thinking everyone is so gullible, when so many things reveal the contents of those lies. Which is why I find crazy liars like Bawumia simply and grossly unintelligent.
A lie does not only border on stating the untruth. It is also about affirming as certain what is doubtful or affirming as doubtful what is certain. Between what is truth or lie is what is called HYPOCRISY!
A liar is dishonest.
Amma 10 years ago
Perhaps Bawumia finds Counsel's questions of what happened after the election such as Sir John's pronouncement of victory farcical and treated them with the contempt they deserve. It seems to me he feels no different about At ... read full comment
Perhaps Bawumia finds Counsel's questions of what happened after the election such as Sir John's pronouncement of victory farcical and treated them with the contempt they deserve. It seems to me he feels no different about Atubuga's comment about his intellect either as he would be wondering where his own has gone being party to the bench that set the parameters for deciding the case i.e. deficiencies during the election and its impact on the result as opposed to politicking after the fact. How exactly was that line of questioning germane to their own parameters set? Can you please write an article dissecting the NDC Counsels performance, next time? Have you noticed that they have only skirted around the determinant factors the judgement hinges on according to the judges? Well,if the judges are to be believed, as they seem as shifty as anything else. Dare I say, that I am more shocked than you are by Bawumia's performance,by the line of argument from the Defence. Please don't be long, you are just as intelligent as the rest of the NDC Counsels so analyse their performance and write an article right here,I look forward to reading it.
SARPONG 10 years ago
Amma, what the NDC lawyers have done and which their clueless supporters cannot figure out is that, they are questioning Dr Bawumiah on pink sheets that the NPP has already withdrawn from their case and Dr Bawumiah kept btell ... read full comment
Amma, what the NDC lawyers have done and which their clueless supporters cannot figure out is that, they are questioning Dr Bawumiah on pink sheets that the NPP has already withdrawn from their case and Dr Bawumiah kept btelling them but they will not stop using pink sheets that are not part of the case anymore.
NPP initially sent more than 11,800 pink sheets as having irregularities but after further research, it reduced the pink sheet with irregularities to 11,132 so there are about 700 hundred pink sheets which are not part of the case anymore and that pink sheets are the ones NDC has disingenously been using to indict Dr Bawumiah and these people are talking about him not being truthful when their Lawyers are using pink sheets that are not part of the case anymore to indict him as untruthful.
Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 10 years ago
Amma, read my article of May 13, 2013 entitled "Pink Sheets Dilemma: Is Bawumia still standing?". I analysed the performance of Tsatsu Tsikata.
Do you think that if the question is irrelevant then, the appropriate answer i ... read full comment
Amma, read my article of May 13, 2013 entitled "Pink Sheets Dilemma: Is Bawumia still standing?". I analysed the performance of Tsatsu Tsikata.
Do you think that if the question is irrelevant then, the appropriate answer is to deny what is well known? Whether a question is irrelevant or not is only determined by the Justices and not the witness by providing a false answer.
Amma 10 years ago
Kofi, I was a witness in a criminal case recently at Wimbledon Magistrate Court, and had first hand experience of barristers being cut to size when they dared asked me irrelevent questions. That is my point, if Counsel is ask ... read full comment
Kofi, I was a witness in a criminal case recently at Wimbledon Magistrate Court, and had first hand experience of barristers being cut to size when they dared asked me irrelevent questions. That is my point, if Counsel is asking irrelevant. questions all answers thereof are irrelevant and my disappoinment is with the judges based on my personal experience recently in a UK court.
Amma 10 years ago
when they dare ask me
when they dare ask me
Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 10 years ago
Amma, I was once a member of the London and Eastern Region Employment Tribunal Panel member. Prior to that, I was senior Employment Casewoker and represented clients at Employment Tribunal hearings. I also trained Magistrates ... read full comment
Amma, I was once a member of the London and Eastern Region Employment Tribunal Panel member. Prior to that, I was senior Employment Casewoker and represented clients at Employment Tribunal hearings. I also trained Magistrates and Judges and sat with Judges as an observer in courts. I never came across the flexibility being allowed in this case. May be Ghana is different but that will never happen here and I agree with you. All the parties, (lead counsels from all sides and the key witness would have been put at their proper places.
That is Ghana, the country thrives on confusion, anarchy, indiscipline and total disregard for rules and regulations. Just this week, the construction of £8 million entertainment centre in St Neots a town near Cambridge had to be stopped because the centre had been built 35 inches closer to residential properties which should not be the case according to the planning permission. As a result, the whole foundation and structure is to be removed and rebuilt at an additional cost of £1 million. That is discipline with rules and regulations working.
Amma 10 years ago
There you have it! I know St Neots, name not pronounced as spelt.
There you have it! I know St Neots, name not pronounced as spelt.
ASHONG KATAI 10 years ago
AMMA, I HAVE ALSO BEEN TO COURT A THOUSAND TIMES. WHEN A WITNESS IS ASKED A QUESTION BY COUNSEL AND HE OR SHE BEGINS TO BEAT ABOUT THE BUSH AS BAWUMIAH HAS BEEN DOING THE JUDGE PRESSES HIM OR HER TO SIMPLY ANSWER THE QUESTION ... read full comment
AMMA, I HAVE ALSO BEEN TO COURT A THOUSAND TIMES. WHEN A WITNESS IS ASKED A QUESTION BY COUNSEL AND HE OR SHE BEGINS TO BEAT ABOUT THE BUSH AS BAWUMIAH HAS BEEN DOING THE JUDGE PRESSES HIM OR HER TO SIMPLY ANSWER THE QUESTION AND SHUT THE FUCK UP. OUR JUDGES HAVE PREVIOUSLY ALLOWED BAWUMIAH TO GIVE LECTURES AT THE SC. THIS HAS BEEN THE PROBLEM WITH THIS CASE. AND YOU SEE WHEN FINALLY ATUGUBA TRIED TO DO HIS WORK THE NPP FOLKS SAID HE HAD BEEN BRIBED.
BOY KOFI 10 years ago
The guy is full of lies and can't be trusted.Thank you.
The guy is full of lies and can't be trusted.Thank you.
Kobena 10 years ago
Kofi,
We have to face facts, Dr Bawumia has been as frustrated as I have been as an ordinary spectator watching Tsatsu's antics on the floor. My view is that just as Tsatsu has shown contempt for the judges, witnesses and co ... read full comment
Kofi,
We have to face facts, Dr Bawumia has been as frustrated as I have been as an ordinary spectator watching Tsatsu's antics on the floor. My view is that just as Tsatsu has shown contempt for the judges, witnesses and counsel on the other side, Dr Bawumia in his answers has tried to be as sarcastic as Tsatsu and to return Tsatsu's contempt in equal measure.
For an ex-convict to keep calling Dr Bawumia dishonest as well as calling counsel on the other side names, without any attempt at restraint by the docile and bumbling Atuguba, I believe that Dr Bawumia has every right to return contepmt not only to Tsatsu but Atuguba as well.
What kind of judge will say "now the mudslinging is even?"
Cry the beloved country!!
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EHHUUOOOO!!! 10 years ago
YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT HONESTY IN THE HAERING BUT WAS ONE SIDED. I WANT TO KNOW FROM YOU IF YOU SEE TSATSU TSIKATA AS AN HONEST COUNSEL. SOMEONE WHO TRIED TO DECEIVE THE COURT WITH NANA'S FORGED SIGNATURE TO WRITE A FORGED LET ... read full comment
YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT HONESTY IN THE HAERING BUT WAS ONE SIDED. I WANT TO KNOW FROM YOU IF YOU SEE TSATSU TSIKATA AS AN HONEST COUNSEL. SOMEONE WHO TRIED TO DECEIVE THE COURT WITH NANA'S FORGED SIGNATURE TO WRITE A FORGED LETTER SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN ON THE 7TH DECEMBER, BUT STAMPED ON THE 3RD AND RECEIVED ON THE 5TH. TO YOU HE IS RATHER HONEST.. ONYAME AHU WOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Kwaku Azar 10 years ago
Kofi:
I think the insinuation that Bawuma is being dishonest or economical with the truth is unfortunate and not grounded in any reality.
You cite 3 instances for which Bawumia's responses to specific questions were in ... read full comment
Kofi:
I think the insinuation that Bawuma is being dishonest or economical with the truth is unfortunate and not grounded in any reality.
You cite 3 instances for which Bawumia's responses to specific questions were inconsistent with your expected response. And then you use this inconsistency as a basis to launch a very serious charge against him.
Of course, you insinuate rather then allege but the use of the former tool leads to the same effect as the use of the latter tool.
Is Bawumia expected to know or remember who is in the EC strong room representing the NPP? Of course not. Anyone who has run an election machine knows that it is a big project, with multiple levels of divsion of labor. Bawumia is given specific tasks and he should not be expected to know every issue reated to the campaign, especially if he trusts others.
His post election task has focused on analyzing pink sheets, which are polling station documents. To use the fact that he says he remembers one or two peope from the strong room as evidence of dishonesty, bad faith or other wrong doing is unfortunate indeed.
Please, let us reserve the use of such charged terms for situations when we have definitive facts but not when we are merely soeculating on what a witness is expected to know.
Regarding the role of agents, again, I am very surprised that you can attribute dishonesty in his interpretation of the role of agents. A mere disagreement in interpreting a regulation cannot reasonably be construed as dishonesty. If you ask the Justices to tell you what the role of polling agents is, they probably vote 6-3. Will that be dishonesty?
It is important to note that polling agents are not required to be appointed. A candidate MAY appoint a polling agent. That should tell you that these polling agents' have limited roles at the polling stations.
I do not find any merit to the notion that polling agents can ratify an electoral irregularity. Thus, I find that whole line of cross examination as inconsequential, irrelevant and a public ploy to divert attention from the issues at stake.
To state it more clearly, the mere fact that polling agents sign pink sheets does not mean irregularities are not present. Nor do thei signing estop anyone from bringing a suit of electoral irregularity.
Therefore, as a matter of law, Bawumia is on soild grounds, although the Justices should have not even allowed that line of questioning that asked him to formulate a legal opinion shortly after he was asked to read regulations.
Finally, to expect Bawumia to hear every word uttered by Sir John is, in my mind, a reflection of your underestimating the magnitude of political party operations.
Not to mention the inconsequentiality and irrelevance of such an out of court on the radio announcement by Sir John.
On the contrary, Bawumia has proven to be an articulate, consistent witness who has complete mastery of the facts to the utter surprise and befuddlement of the cross examiner.
He has been asked many irrelevant questions and has answered them.
My only surprise is how many of these irrelevant question has been allowed by the court.
Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 10 years ago
Azar, I never suggested that Bawumia should have known everything regarding NPP's operations for the Presidential Election. That was unnecessary and impossible task. However, I am of the view that as VP candidate and Chairman ... read full comment
Azar, I never suggested that Bawumia should have known everything regarding NPP's operations for the Presidential Election. That was unnecessary and impossible task. However, I am of the view that as VP candidate and Chairman of the petition evidence gathering committee or group, he ought not only to have known those in the Strong Room but should have spoken to them as part of the preparatory work for the petition.
I also did not suggest that complaints by NPP polling agents would have stopped the EC from declaring the results. However, I am still of the view that, had some of them put their concerns, disagreements and objections on paper by completing the relevant sections of the electoral materials, they would have been useful to NPP in this petition. Again, the description of the polling agents by Bawumia as "mere agents" despite the role assigned to them by rules of the game is being economical with the truth. He was refusing to accept that they could have completed a complaint form if they objected to the declared polling station results. It is possible that some of the polling agents were unaware they could have completed a complaint form but that does not make them "mere agents".
It really sad to say that Bawumia was not expected to know every word of the party's General Secretary in reference to the example. Is that what I meant by using that example?
Azar, from my experience here, all the parties involved in what is happening at the SC, especially, Bawumia would be subjected to very serious criticism or even condemnation by the Justices in their ruling. The Judges here do not take kind to politicians coming to their courts to play political games or counsels playing the same political games. May be anything and everything are acceptable in Ghana.
Let's wait to see how Bawumia and all others are assessed post petition verdict.
Kwaku Azar 10 years ago
Kofi
But that is my point. You are of the view that Bawuma should know certain things. That is not a good or even reasonable ground to accuse him of dishonesty.
I am only urging you to be magnanimous in your characteriz ... read full comment
Kofi
But that is my point. You are of the view that Bawuma should know certain things. That is not a good or even reasonable ground to accuse him of dishonesty.
I am only urging you to be magnanimous in your characterization of his testimony, especially if you are not aware of solid facts that contradict his testimony.
BRAVEBOY 10 years ago
Kwaku, he is only taking things from the surface of the sheet. After all that is what we've been told to do. Bawumia is a learned man with Oxford credentials, he must be conscious of everything he says. The thing is, you swor ... read full comment
Kwaku, he is only taking things from the surface of the sheet. After all that is what we've been told to do. Bawumia is a learned man with Oxford credentials, he must be conscious of everything he says. The thing is, you swore before a case just to confirm that, when you make your way to court, you must be very sure you've done your home work well. We live to see the outcome. Remember words like overwhelming evidence. I don't hear that anymore. Kofi is only trying to capture the truth through the len of observation. He can not tell the exact mind of Bawumia.
BRAVEBOY 10 years ago
More so, he is not accusing him of dishonestly, but only posed a question if his comments can be viewed as dishonesty. That will only be clear at the end of the case.
More so, he is not accusing him of dishonestly, but only posed a question if his comments can be viewed as dishonesty. That will only be clear at the end of the case.
Wiseman 10 years ago
"Is Bawumia expected to know or remember who is in the EC strong room representing the NPP? Of course not. Anyone who has run an election machine knows that it is a big project, with multiple levels of divsion of labor. Bawum ... read full comment
"Is Bawumia expected to know or remember who is in the EC strong room representing the NPP? Of course not. Anyone who has run an election machine knows that it is a big project, with multiple levels of divsion of labor. Bawumia is given specific tasks and he should not be expected to know every issue reated to the campaign, especially if he trusts others."
Would you substantiate this statement? This is serious! Ghana is not USA, is not Nigeria, is not the UK. It is a very small candidate. We expert him to have confidence in an election as serious as what we have in Ghana because of situations like what ensued after the elections, after Sir John declared the results. If Bawumia and Nana Addo don't know who represented them in the strong room, how would they have confidence in results to be announced later after the polls? It means, as they are doing, as with the polling stations, their positioned is determined long before the votes are cast; a win is acceptable, no win is unacceptable? Bawumia being, as it were, the vice presidential candidate WAS supposed to know.
In the US, even those who strategized for Obama's campaign were people picked by individuals but the president was aware who they were.
Wiseman 10 years ago
... it is a very small country, sorry.
... it is a very small country, sorry.
BRAVEBOY 10 years ago
Wiseman, running a country is even a bigger task and one needs to be briefed constantly. If the NPP did not take this simple fact seriously, then I question their preparedness to run a whole nation. If he did not know during ... read full comment
Wiseman, running a country is even a bigger task and one needs to be briefed constantly. If the NPP did not take this simple fact seriously, then I question their preparedness to run a whole nation. If he did not know during the elections, what about all this time before the petition. Did they think, as a key witness, he would escape such questions. The problem is an African thing, we are so laid back on strategy, facts and doing things in an orderly manner. The issue of 'Time' is still an alien thing to us. Why?
Wiseman 10 years ago
That's the question!
That's the question!
Nyame Ekuma 10 years ago
U are a big fool fooling ur self that Bawumia was at his best. Nonsense . We all listened and watched proceedings. U are a fool for thinking NPP has a case. Kwasiato.
Are u also a litigant Akyem. Nonsense . Tickle ur self ... read full comment
U are a big fool fooling ur self that Bawumia was at his best. Nonsense . We all listened and watched proceedings. U are a fool for thinking NPP has a case. Kwasiato.
Are u also a litigant Akyem. Nonsense . Tickle ur self and laugh . Mad fool. Bat and monkey eaters. Greedy bastard.
Mahama is our President . God bless Ghana and shame the tribal mother fuckers. ' Nkwasiasem ara kwa kwa'
John Anamse 10 years ago
Azar, different arguments and opinions can always be adduced to support or rebutt in this case.
However, I am told by some criminal psychologists that one of the test of determining if someone is speaking the truth is to f ... read full comment
Azar, different arguments and opinions can always be adduced to support or rebutt in this case.
However, I am told by some criminal psychologists that one of the test of determining if someone is speaking the truth is to find out the way he avoids answering questions directly and keeps dancing around the expected answers
Bad boy 10 years ago
Well done Kofi. There are two ways to know how to do the right thing, through experience and through common sense.
The problem is the latter is very elusive. I still maintain the NPP would have better learnt their lessons b ... read full comment
Well done Kofi. There are two ways to know how to do the right thing, through experience and through common sense.
The problem is the latter is very elusive. I still maintain the NPP would have better learnt their lessons by addressing the issues you've raised than risk losing a court case. However, this court case will serve as a warning to the EC, NPP, NDC etc, that elections are as important as going to the bank. Imagine if a cashier presents you with 200,000 cedis and after counting it, you agree it is the right amount, make your way home and found out the sums were not right after arriving home.
What will you do? Go back to the Bank or accept it as your fault and learn from it. Life is full of challenges and lessons. The thing is, in your quest to find redress you must insure you don't commit more self inflicted wounds on the way.
BRAVEBOY 10 years ago
Well said Kofi, I just pray this is a Giant Leap for Ghana. God Bless Ghana
Well said Kofi, I just pray this is a Giant Leap for Ghana. God Bless Ghana
Boamah Gyamerah 10 years ago
Kofi, I would have accepted your arguments against Bawumiah`s honesty if you had been living in Ghana or Africa where nepotism (Whom you Know) is the order of the day and concentrating on issues are thrown to the dogs but I f ... read full comment
Kofi, I would have accepted your arguments against Bawumiah`s honesty if you had been living in Ghana or Africa where nepotism (Whom you Know) is the order of the day and concentrating on issues are thrown to the dogs but I find it very disappointing to read this from you of all people, a British- Ghanaian intellectual living and working in England. Kofi, is it not a blessing for Ghana that Nana Akufo-Addo, Dr. Bawumiah his Vice and their Party Chairman are real Leaders whose attention were on the main issue at that critical moment ( during the Election) and not the party propaganda ? Are you, the lawyers of the respondents and the judges seriously and sincerely expecting the three leaders to listen and take serious the declaration of the election results by their party`s General Secretary at time they should monitor the results from the EC? Kofi do you honestly expect the three leaders to know personally and by name, the party`s agents at the strong room or elsewhere? That is not done in any serious establishment or you think because Dr. Bawumiah headed his party team that investigated the so called electoral irregularities, he must know the agents personally. I do expect you of all people to know better. A good leader doesn`t waste his precious time on hear say but rather on facts and knows his immediate subordinates whom he gives directions and from whom he collects facts (information) needed for his or her checks and decision making. For the lawyers of the respondents to expect that can be accepted but for you to use that to question Dr. Bawumiah`s honesty or integrity is very sad and put the future of Ghana in the darkness. Please pardon me if my comment should sound insulting to you for I don`t intend to insult you but rather want to register my disappointment because you are one of the few people whose articles I admire. Believe me, I am not an NPP member but a concerned Ghanaian. Ghana must move forward and that demands that we correct our colonial way of looking at things.
Whatever 10 years ago
Bawumia has abandoned his all his exhibits one by one? And now the whole country is being forced to listen to a very hollow analysis which is just part of pleadings and NOT the evidence? We are just wasting time
Bawumia has abandoned his all his exhibits one by one? And now the whole country is being forced to listen to a very hollow analysis which is just part of pleadings and NOT the evidence? We are just wasting time
Nyame Ekuma 10 years ago
Bawumia shd never dream of being the flagbearer of the Akyem and Ashantis . 'pepeni' ba like that.
Bawumia is a foolish goat who is being sacrificed on the altar of PINK SHITS . When is see him forcing a smile in the box, ... read full comment
Bawumia shd never dream of being the flagbearer of the Akyem and Ashantis . 'pepeni' ba like that.
Bawumia is a foolish goat who is being sacrificed on the altar of PINK SHITS . When is see him forcing a smile in the box, he looks like some one who is developing a mental problem. Fool
lets see if no one would contest Bawumia for 2016 NPP flag bearership . Nonsense.
A TOKE from the North, taking sheepishly for a arrogant and litigant EVIL DWARF to become President. Shiaaa ! 'Nkwasiasem ara kwa kwa'. Nonsense
wofa kofi 10 years ago
knowledge or othewise of a party representative in the EC'S strong room had no bearing on the issue before the court. The counsel has so far asked only three questions in 10+ days
knowledge or othewise of a party representative in the EC'S strong room had no bearing on the issue before the court. The counsel has so far asked only three questions in 10+ days
Kwaku asimenu-forson 10 years ago
If Bawumia lies at a rally,i would not mind. but in the SC and before the cameras? before the world? in the face of the documented obvious? i would not put my one cedi in a bank with Bawumia as the manager. i dont know what h ... read full comment
If Bawumia lies at a rally,i would not mind. but in the SC and before the cameras? before the world? in the face of the documented obvious? i would not put my one cedi in a bank with Bawumia as the manager. i dont know what happened at our redenomination but certainly,our banking system can do better with people starighter than Bawumia.
Kwaku asimenu-forson 10 years ago
straighter, i mean
straighter, i mean
DA Kakraba 10 years ago
That is how dishonest he is
That is how dishonest he is
nana yaw 10 years ago
How many ashanti names here belongs to npp is that a democracy?
How many ashanti names here belongs to npp is that a democracy?
Well said.. His manner and belligerent attitude as a witness truly baffles me. I believe he's just plain dishonest and does not care about the consequences of his action.
how many times have i said on this (creature from the earth) that you cannot trust oxford scholars....just look at how dumb kuffour is for selling gt i/2 the price to his oxford cronies,
voda-phone. people like bawuahmia n ...
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Kuffour sold 45% of GT for 555 million dollars. Rawlings sold the same percentage, 45% OF GT for 30 million dollars to Malaysia four years earlier which Kuffour bought back at 110 million which even NDC Parliamentarians at t ...
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Yes, Bawumia has been very honest to the court and your silly rhetorical question would have been perfectly right if you had rather asked whether Tsatsu has been asking relevant questions. You should no better especially as y ...
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HE IS BEING USED BY THE AKYEMS MAFFIAS
Twaddles of Kofi Ata, a foolsoldier with the intelligence of a rotten mango!
Does ignorant Kofi Ata actually know what is at stake at the supreme court ?
Has Kofi Ata heard what Afari Gyan told the nation and the NPP be ...
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'Need he be told that the case before the supreme court is not about who or Bawumia knows or not,or whether Bawumia is an angel or not, but rather the court will first ascertain the veracity of the claim by petitioners that t ...
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Dr. Bawumia keeps on saying that the law was not followed. But they themselves did not follow the same law. The law says if you have any objections fill the complaint form but since they did not follow the laid down procedure ...
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MR FIGURE-OUT, from your comment, you are suggesting that Bawumia knew those who represented NPP in the Strong Room but for fear of those representatives being called into the witness box, he decided to be economical with the ...
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Why do you give credit to Bawumia? The guy would have been the Vice President of Ghana!
Stop the continuous urge to make apologies for someone who could have known better. And stop the fighting with yourself to "balance" ...
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yes I agree with Mr Wiseman,the truth hurts n not everyone would agree with you.
You have said it all. Ghanaians should seriously think who they want to be their leaders and in my view Bawumia is certainly not one of them.
You said it all, Wiseman. I couldn't imagine that for someone who gave the impression that he was just interested in the truth, forget about his Vice Presidential ambitions, Bawumiah would lie with such a straight face. I don ...
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You can do all your analysis and make all the comments to sooth your leanings.
We will all hear the ruling. Keep in mind the issues before the court else you will loose focus. Tsatu's avowed goal was to discredit Bawumiah ...
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AS pity I did not see this earlier. It is wholly unfair for you to criticise us for examining and giving our opinions on this on-going case.
Whether the NDC has "run the country aground" or not is entirely your opinion but ...
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I think you should keep your calm and focus on the issues raised by Kofi.
The subject here is Bawumia's responses at the SC and whether he was honest in what he said.
It is not about who is the most dishonest person or ...
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SPA= sale purchase agreement - signed by dr. valerie sawyer deputy chief of staff.
Full text begins:
In 2008, the Government of Ghana divested seventy percent (70%) of its shares in the Ghana Telecommunications Company Limi ...
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It all goes to show how Tsastu Tsikata bored holes into NPP's Petition exhibits.
Bawumia was made to understand that his knowledge of the law or law in general was very poor. When Tsastu put that to Bawumia, Bawumia could ...
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First, who wrote this article might have been an Ndc sympathizer because 70% was not sold for 900 million but rather $995 million and Telecom SA price offer of 947 was a good offer but their management of SA Telecom was riddl ...
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"This should never be allowed to happen again. now where did you get your information....45% for 555."
YOU ARE REALLY A DUMMY . If 70% was sold for 900 million, what is 45% of that 900 million? Can you do simple arithemati ...
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ok. without using a calculator we can easily see that 50% of 900 is $450. you talk like a snake oil salesman. i have read some of your comments/debate with others and have recognized that you tend to be all over the place wit ...
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You are really a simpleton and that is why you failed your O level maths. 900 million is not 100% worth of the company but 70%. Vodafone paid 900 million for 70% of the company so you have to first find how much GT was valued ...
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in your own writings you said 45% of 900. still if we do 45% of 100%. if 70% = 900 mil. 100% = 9000/7 is not 12.43 mil. c ur problem is u exaggerate a lot and keep moving the post. dont tell me is about 560 mil. thats why th ...
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Who told you what you are saying? Illiterate
Bawumia is a very stupid northern TOKE and GOAT. How can he be stupidly and sheepish be slaving for this Akyem arrogants.
Bawumia would realise how foolish and stupid he is when 20 people contest him for flag bearer. Sma ...
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All politicians are liars. No Ghanaian politician can survive without telling lies. Bawumia is just behaving true to type. Both sides in the SC case will readily tell a lie if it will help their case and they won't be caught.
I get worried when intellectuals come out with such analysis, but I not surprise because honesty is a personal decision. these questions remain unanswered , if u hire a guard and he sleep for a thief to steal, is the thief ex ...
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As far I am aware,no one can accuse the other of "stealing£" or are we talking about different things here?
If you are referring to the elections, nothing was "stolen" and even the petitioners abandoned that rhetoric and ...
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This guy has no shame and a very big disgrace to all PHD holders in Ghana.PERIOD!!!.
This is why bawumia's tetimony at the supreme court petition is farce
Dr Bawumia has told the Supreme Court that he does not have a single shred of protest note from any of the NPP polling agents that were at the 26,002 po ...
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No, Sir,
Dr Bawumia has cited instances where NPP polling agents refused to sign results. These polling agents, especilly in the rural areas, are largely untrained semi-literate volunteers. Their wishy washy perfomances show ...
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Dr Bwumia is not being economical with the truth; he's simply being dishonest. It is not difficult to tell the truth but this key witness has not been able to answer simple questions rather dancing around the questions becaus ...
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Is it ILLEGAL to be dishonest?
Will Mahama tell us how he knew for sure he would win "one-touch"?
Will Afari-Gyan tell us why he had to forcefully create 45 new constituencies?
Will Tsatsu tell us why he kept repeating alr ...
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He disagreed with petitioners' counsel on the relevance of the Tsatsu question concerning what Bawumia might have heard about the NPP General Secretary supposedly advising NPPians to wear white garments and "go to church" on ...
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For the past several years, I have observed with dismay a pattern of behaviour on the part of Dr Bawumia in which he seeks at all cost to twist, present and get his opinions across as if they were facts.
He chooses only t ...
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Your opinion on Bawumiah is based strictly for your dislike of the NPP and your penchant to see Mahama as a President irrespective of what the evidence is as most Northerners want to see Mahama as the President instead of Nan ...
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BE HONEST SARPONG YOU ARE ALSO COMMENTING THROUGH THE EYES AND MIND OF NPP IDEOLOGUE, BAWUMIA WAS DISHONEST AND TSATSU EXPOSED HIM. THE NPP PETITION IS NOW INFESTED WITH MULTIPLE DENTS AND LOOPHOLES
Tell me what Tsatsu achieved with his cross examination that Tony Lithur did not. Tsatsu is just not a trial lawyer but a great law Teacher. His questioning is pedestrian at best and has done damage to ndc rather having incur ...
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Tell me what Tsatsu achieved with his cross examination that Tony Lithur did not. Tsatsu is just not a trial lawyer but a great law Teacher. His questioning is pedestrian at best and has done damage to ndc rather having incur ...
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Tell me what Tsatsu achieved with his cross examination that Tony Lithur did not. Tsatsu is just not a trial lawyer but a great law Teacher. His questioning is pedestrian at best and has done damage to ndc rather having incur ...
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Tell me what Tsatsu achieved with his cross examination that Tony Lithur did not. Tsatsu is just not a trial lawyer but a great law Teacher. His questioning is pedestrian at best and has done damage to ndc rather having incur ...
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Cardinal, much as I am wholly disappointed in the behaviours of current leaders of the NPP, I do not hate Bawumia, nor am I saying or writing anything because I want Mahama to be president. I personally believe leadership and ...
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SARPONG, it is very clear from the mistakes and errors on the pink sheets that lead Counsel for the third respondent had no option but to accept or admit that there were mistakes. However, he has not accepted or admitted that ...
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"However, he has not accepted or admitted that there were over voting and other irregularities."
Kofi, do you remember the Asokwa pink sheet he introduced to the court showing that was over voting in Ashanti Region but Dr ...
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Are you suggesting that the Justices will be taking into consideration what lawyers from all parties say to the media outside court and after the hearing? My experience is that, that is not allowed. It's only what happens in ...
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But Kofi Dadzie was explaining what Tsatsu did in court and his intention. Dadzie is not an ordinary lawyer but he and Dawuda are introduced as part of the NDC lawyers in court. Tsatsu introduced that pink sheet to show that ...
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I listen to Ato Dazie, he and Dawuda never ever, ever said or even suggested that. Stop using daily guide nonsense and joyfm spin rubbish as your reference because we know they fabricated that story. NDC filed an affidavit in ...
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Mr. Whatever, kindly respect the rest of us on this forum. I watched and heard Nana Ato Dadzie saying the NDC legal team will also prove that over voting occurred in both Eastern and Ashanti Regions and that the NPP were show ...
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By that "Asokwa pink sheet", Tsatsu sought to get the judges approve and confirm either of two things:
1. That the "irregularities" Dr. Bawumiah has been seeking to prove are in actual fact mere errors on the part of the ...
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With all due respect, your response deviates from Amuna’s submission. First, if you really want to be taking serious, please desist from 'characterization. Tsikata has never opined anywhere that he is a law luminary. His c ...
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He showed the Asokwa pink sheet to show that there was over voting that went on in Ashanti region. His chief pompom waving sidekick, Ato Dadzie held a press conference outside court to hammer that point in that, they will sh ...
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Setting foot in the witness box,had examined his 'future options',and had decided to 'go for broke'!
Why do you think he kept making repeated references to a 'bogus analysis' thinking a wily fox like Tsatsu,who is many light ...
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DR.BAWUMIA IS HONEST AND PRESIDENT TO BE IN GHANA.HE IS NOT AFRAID TO SPEAK THE TRUTH,,,,,I LIKE HIM...
KANOKWARE, YOU DID NOT LIVE UP TO YOUR NAME, A SAD THING TO SAY, WILL YOU IN YOUR HEART OF HEARTS SAY BAWUMIA WAS HONEST. THEN YOUR JUDGEMENT IS MESSED UP YOU NEED TO RENEW YOUR MIND
Your analysis is nonsense. Of course you are a hard core NDC so what should we expect from you? Your useless defence of untenable election fraud by Mahama and NDC will surely fail. People of Ata Kofi's stripe are the reason w ...
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Must you condemn others for their opinions? This has nothing to do with NDC but for your information, the writer has been consistent in his objective approach to analysis of important matters of State or national interest.
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" Mpaninfuo se," s3 wo de kokromoti k) ayie a y3 de sotro gya wo kwan" which literally translate as " dirty slaps to your cheeks is the necessary comeuppance or the befitting punishment for going to funeral empty handed and c ...
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Kofi Atta's caption is a rhetorical question. Everything thereafter in a question form is RHETORICAL. Didn't you get it wrong this time?
It is so sad and almost becoming an integral part of the Ghanaian psyche that, when y ...
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Mr. to the best of my knowledge, your write-up tells me that you are an NDC supporter. Dr Bawumia is an intellectual, the like of which has not been found in Ghana in modern times. If a lawyer asks a question which is irrelev ...
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Clearly you have not read Kofi Ata's article fully, and / or nor have you understood the main thrust of it.
As you so ignorant? and whilst we are at it, perhaps it is your level of ignorance, lack of proper understanding ...
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Paul Amuna, Kofi Ata has been fair in his articles when it comes to politics and I doff my hat to him and that is why I respect him though I don't always agree with him but for you to shout that Kofi Ata is not an NDC man sho ...
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SARPONG, yes, it is true that I worked for PDNC and have former colleagues who are NDC ministers, MPs, District Chief Executives, heads of state institutions and do keep in touch with a few. However, I can tell you most of th ...
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Cardinal I hope this answers your question about my opinion of Kofi. Shall we lay this matter to rest once and for all an focus on the merits of his ( and other people's) opinions outside of party and tribal characterisations ...
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Yes we can lay it to rest but Kofi Ata as a official of PNDC who benefitted with scholarship to Bulgaria cannot say that because he writes articles that are considered objective compared to Margaret Jackson does not tilt to N ...
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Cardinal, I agree with you Kofi's leanings are towards the NDC. Equally you will agree that his articles have largely been fair, balanced and objective (even if the issues here are mostly against the NPP's witness).
You a ...
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OMAMBA YOU ARE WRONG, MAKING SOMETHING OUT THIS INTELLECTUAL DISHONEST GUY CALLED BAWUMIA IS POOR JUDGEMENT, THERE ARE SMARTER PEOPLE IN THE COUNTRY THAN HIM, BUT THEY ARE QUIET AND HUMBLE GOING ABOUT THEIR WORK TO HELP BUILD ...
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No! Dr. Bawumia is an honest guy; he's genuinely passionate about the fortunes and the future of Ghana. Who says Dr. Bawumia is dishonest? That person should rather examine him/herself before pointing accusing fingures at Dr. ...
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He may be "honest" in your eyees, but is certainly NOT "passionate about the fortunes and future of Ghana " but in my view his own narrow, partisan and personal parochial interests. At least to me and I suspect many others, t ...
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Paul,I totally agree with your assessment and conclusion drawn on Dr Bawumia.You are sport on,in line with others as demonstrated by his speech on 2nd of May 2012 and the responses to it as reported by Justice Lee on Ghanaw ...
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I thank you most sincerely for providing some of the evidence in respect of Dr Bawumia's character which to me is most worrying. I have a copy of the Full text of his lecture on May 2 2012 and the more you read it, the more y ...
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Mr. Amuna, who in NDC is honest? Kindly mention one person including those who have died. If Bawumia is dangerous to Ghana then I believe Mills/Mahama were/are evil men of the country. The fact that Bawumia did not tow Tsatsu ...
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Let me get you out of your misery - I do not belong to, and have NEVER belonged to the NDC. It is a pity that you try to tie me to a party that I am not a part of, nor am I interested in joining. I believe I am one of very fe ...
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You could have made your points without using invectives on me. I won't contest you on your assertion that you don't sympathize with any party, though I strongly believe every person in this world has a preference whenever he ...
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Thanks Yaw B. With me, what you see is exactly what you get and yes, my name is exactly as presented here on this forum and will not change for any reason.
Kofi you've moved away from being an objective analyst and now playing to the gallery.
Dr. Bawumiah is challenging all the counsels to read his analysis based on what is on the face of the pink sheet. So far non of the res ...
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AYISAM, the article was not about Dr Bawumia's analysis of the pink sheets as contained on the CD. I posed a question and analysed three of his answers under cross examination. Where does my mathematical handicap comes in?
SENSELESS ARTICLE WRITTEN BY FOOL
When arguments fail you, insult those with whom you disagree. That makes you intelligent and matured, isn't it? Next time, scroll past if you don't want to read it.
MASSA KOFI, personally, I believe Dr Bawumia is a straightforward and honest man. However, I don't think in the broad context of Dr Bawumia's testimony and performance at the Supreme Court, he has actually shown himself to be ...
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It's Bawumia's life and actions as a politician that are under consideration here not what he tells his wife in the privacy of his home. And as a politician, he's almost by definition, dishonest. But the thing too is that pol ...
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Stupid questions demand stupid answers; desperate times call for desperate measures; if you subject a witness to such unnecessary and irrelevant marathon, you shouldn't complain about some of his responses.
Bawumia has so ...
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First of all the relevance of the question lies in Justice Atuguba's admonition of Dr Bawumia and contrary to your assertion, he was NOT "being helpful to the court".
Here is the relevance of the question: Owusu Afriyie g ...
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What a telling summary!My view entirely on this whole petition. Looking at the way this petition has been conducted, what chance in hell does any voter have in challenging a presidential election as provided for in the consti ...
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Despite the liberties taken by witness and counsels on both sides, may I remind you that we have not even come to the core issue at stake in this petition? Don't be misled.
The issues about polling agents, pink sheets etc ...
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Please get off your high horse! In my view you have been waxing lyrical and attempting to stifle anybody who has an opposing view, with silly put downs, whilst pretending to be high-minded. I have followed the case all right ...
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Thank you most kindly. I am sorry but I don't mean to be patronising. I was rather surprised you seem to accept Sarpong's take on issues to you, yet to sound offended by mine. Clearly you have your own interests and of course ...
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THAT'S SaRPONG.
LONTO-BOY, though you may be right I disagree with you that, it would be malicious to suggest that some of his answers are dishonest. For example, Dr Bawumia would have done himself a lot of credit if he had admitted that he ...
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Let me suggest to you that if a character trait is not part of your DNA,then it would NEVER manfest itself in anything you do,particularly if whatever it is you are engaged in is on public display!
Why would anybody who choo ...
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Kofi,good observation and brilliant analysis.These same answers he gave are what the NPP supporters will be using to attack him if the petition fails.
He should be on his knees and praying to God for miracle for the petition ...
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As to why this guy did not first of all think of his reputation before telling the court lies, only heaven knows. It was a shame seeing him in the box with such fake smile lying through the teeth. What is interesting is the f ...
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Why do you have to resort to such vulgarities to make your point? It is wholly uncalled for. Pathological liar, yes I agree, but wee smoker and the rest, I wholly condmen.
I like that. Tsikata called him Dr.@Pink sheets. But i think we shd go for yours. Dr. PIG SHIT .
When Bad wool mia loses the case he shd smear his face and head with DWARF SHIT form the Akyem Galamsey ridden forest. Nonse ...
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God punish you when he born you black(same color as feces,shit,crap,turds,scat).. And he born you in africa with dirty water,no lites, no gas...Nigger go back to banana tree you monkey
Glad to have you pointing the short falls of this armed chaired politician.What makes Bawumia a laughing stoke at the SC is the fact that .Bawumia can not substentiate the diffrence between a court room and working on economi ...
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Are you sure ?
The comment is unfair to Dr. Bawumia' of whom even NDC supporters have hailed.
Is it true that Some Bank managers at the Bank of Ghana who RESISTED THE STEALING OF OLD CEDIS during the re-denomination of the cedi in 2007 were sacked while the unlucky ones were shot dead by President Kufour’s DEATH-SQU ...
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On the rampage that Sammy Awuku and his mob caused at the premises of STL , Bawumia said he had no knowledge even though this was reported extensively in the media.
Asked what Akuffo Addo meant by administrative tasks in his ...
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De Gaulle, I have admired your write-ups up to this moment.
What is “Truth”? What is a lie? Supposing one asks a question: will the sun rise tomorrow, the answer to this is an emphatic “YES”. Dancing around and cal ...
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Perhaps Bawumia finds Counsel's questions of what happened after the election such as Sir John's pronouncement of victory farcical and treated them with the contempt they deserve. It seems to me he feels no different about At ...
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Amma, what the NDC lawyers have done and which their clueless supporters cannot figure out is that, they are questioning Dr Bawumiah on pink sheets that the NPP has already withdrawn from their case and Dr Bawumiah kept btell ...
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Amma, read my article of May 13, 2013 entitled "Pink Sheets Dilemma: Is Bawumia still standing?". I analysed the performance of Tsatsu Tsikata.
Do you think that if the question is irrelevant then, the appropriate answer i ...
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Kofi, I was a witness in a criminal case recently at Wimbledon Magistrate Court, and had first hand experience of barristers being cut to size when they dared asked me irrelevent questions. That is my point, if Counsel is ask ...
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when they dare ask me
Amma, I was once a member of the London and Eastern Region Employment Tribunal Panel member. Prior to that, I was senior Employment Casewoker and represented clients at Employment Tribunal hearings. I also trained Magistrates ...
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There you have it! I know St Neots, name not pronounced as spelt.
AMMA, I HAVE ALSO BEEN TO COURT A THOUSAND TIMES. WHEN A WITNESS IS ASKED A QUESTION BY COUNSEL AND HE OR SHE BEGINS TO BEAT ABOUT THE BUSH AS BAWUMIAH HAS BEEN DOING THE JUDGE PRESSES HIM OR HER TO SIMPLY ANSWER THE QUESTION ...
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The guy is full of lies and can't be trusted.Thank you.
Kofi,
We have to face facts, Dr Bawumia has been as frustrated as I have been as an ordinary spectator watching Tsatsu's antics on the floor. My view is that just as Tsatsu has shown contempt for the judges, witnesses and co ...
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YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT HONESTY IN THE HAERING BUT WAS ONE SIDED. I WANT TO KNOW FROM YOU IF YOU SEE TSATSU TSIKATA AS AN HONEST COUNSEL. SOMEONE WHO TRIED TO DECEIVE THE COURT WITH NANA'S FORGED SIGNATURE TO WRITE A FORGED LET ...
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Kofi:
I think the insinuation that Bawuma is being dishonest or economical with the truth is unfortunate and not grounded in any reality.
You cite 3 instances for which Bawumia's responses to specific questions were in ...
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Azar, I never suggested that Bawumia should have known everything regarding NPP's operations for the Presidential Election. That was unnecessary and impossible task. However, I am of the view that as VP candidate and Chairman ...
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Kofi
But that is my point. You are of the view that Bawuma should know certain things. That is not a good or even reasonable ground to accuse him of dishonesty.
I am only urging you to be magnanimous in your characteriz ...
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Kwaku, he is only taking things from the surface of the sheet. After all that is what we've been told to do. Bawumia is a learned man with Oxford credentials, he must be conscious of everything he says. The thing is, you swor ...
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More so, he is not accusing him of dishonestly, but only posed a question if his comments can be viewed as dishonesty. That will only be clear at the end of the case.
"Is Bawumia expected to know or remember who is in the EC strong room representing the NPP? Of course not. Anyone who has run an election machine knows that it is a big project, with multiple levels of divsion of labor. Bawum ...
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... it is a very small country, sorry.
Wiseman, running a country is even a bigger task and one needs to be briefed constantly. If the NPP did not take this simple fact seriously, then I question their preparedness to run a whole nation. If he did not know during ...
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That's the question!
U are a big fool fooling ur self that Bawumia was at his best. Nonsense . We all listened and watched proceedings. U are a fool for thinking NPP has a case. Kwasiato.
Are u also a litigant Akyem. Nonsense . Tickle ur self ...
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Azar, different arguments and opinions can always be adduced to support or rebutt in this case.
However, I am told by some criminal psychologists that one of the test of determining if someone is speaking the truth is to f ...
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Well done Kofi. There are two ways to know how to do the right thing, through experience and through common sense.
The problem is the latter is very elusive. I still maintain the NPP would have better learnt their lessons b ...
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Well said Kofi, I just pray this is a Giant Leap for Ghana. God Bless Ghana
Kofi, I would have accepted your arguments against Bawumiah`s honesty if you had been living in Ghana or Africa where nepotism (Whom you Know) is the order of the day and concentrating on issues are thrown to the dogs but I f ...
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Bawumia has abandoned his all his exhibits one by one? And now the whole country is being forced to listen to a very hollow analysis which is just part of pleadings and NOT the evidence? We are just wasting time
Bawumia shd never dream of being the flagbearer of the Akyem and Ashantis . 'pepeni' ba like that.
Bawumia is a foolish goat who is being sacrificed on the altar of PINK SHITS . When is see him forcing a smile in the box, ...
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knowledge or othewise of a party representative in the EC'S strong room had no bearing on the issue before the court. The counsel has so far asked only three questions in 10+ days
If Bawumia lies at a rally,i would not mind. but in the SC and before the cameras? before the world? in the face of the documented obvious? i would not put my one cedi in a bank with Bawumia as the manager. i dont know what h ...
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straighter, i mean
That is how dishonest he is
How many ashanti names here belongs to npp is that a democracy?