Legally Pathetic Tsikata Goofs On Role Of Polling Agents.

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Yaw Okyere 12 years ago

Great Piece I loved reading it.

Great Piece I loved reading it.
KOLA, LONDON PROPER 12 years ago

I know the Hagans are very intelligent but you, Ebenezer Hagan, have shown your poor current knowledge of the Constitution which gives power to Polling agents.

What You ought to have known before penning down this Kejetia ...
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I know the Hagans are very intelligent but you, Ebenezer Hagan, have shown your poor current knowledge of the Constitution which gives power to Polling agents.

What You ought to have known before penning down this Kejetia toilet tissue for an article is that Polling Agent's Power of 2001 is not same for 2012. Are you out of your senses or you just wanted to hoodwink Kookoase Npp supporters to believe your illiteracy?

ANALYSING YOUR QUOTE BELOW SHOWS YOUR INEPTITUDE"
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"Per Ampiah JSC. [W]here power is given to a person to perform a particular duty, such power shall not be delegated without due process of law. The maxim is, delegatus non potest delegare (A delegated power cannot be delegated.) The manner by which a voter may be identified and allowed to vote, is set down clearly in regulation 30 of CI 15. It is not the business of all the candidates’ agents... to “affirm that they know the person” before he or she is allowed to go through with the voting steps.
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It is very clear you have loaded your Toilet with Pooh as individually identifying every voter before voting was never any part of Tsatsu's cross examination so why chip in this lie to make your case hold?

It is very clear and concise of Tsatsu's cross examination questions put to Bawumia on Polling agents and all level headed individuals got the import of it except a Koookoase Hagan.
Dr. Bokor Jnr 12 years ago

WHERE IN THIS ARTICLE DID THE AUTHOR INSULT YOU OR ANYONE... USELESS FOOL... JUST LIKE THE STUPID NDC PARTY YOU FOLLOW....

WHERE IN THIS ARTICLE DID THE AUTHOR INSULT YOU OR ANYONE... USELESS FOOL... JUST LIKE THE STUPID NDC PARTY YOU FOLLOW....
CARDINAL 12 years ago

"What You ought to have known before penning down this Kejetia toilet tissue for an article is that Polling Agent's Power of 2001 is not same for 2012"

Can you illiterate recoil back into whatever hole you crawled out of? ...
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"What You ought to have known before penning down this Kejetia toilet tissue for an article is that Polling Agent's Power of 2001 is not same for 2012"

Can you illiterate recoil back into whatever hole you crawled out of? When did we do any amendment to the constitution to change the role of polling Agents? Now any fool with an access to a computer wants to be heard even if they have no clue the issue at stake.

Is it not sad an illiterate like this London watchman is calling a legal mind like Hagan illiterate when this idiot even believes a group of children is CHILDRENS?

Illiterate fool, did you listen to Tsatsu's cross examination when he implied that since the NPP polling Agents did not complain, then Npp has no right to commplain now or the English being used at the court is too technical for you dumb trokosi incestuous child rapist to understand?

Idiot, you call that analysis? Did you even understand what you quoted? What a dumb illiterate from this dumb London watchman.
Childrens Computers 12 years ago

I thought that you did learn some discipline in addition to English from your English Teacher but catching you red handed squatting, I am afraid I have no choice but to refer you back to your teacher for REHABILITATION. And b ...
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I thought that you did learn some discipline in addition to English from your English Teacher but catching you red handed squatting, I am afraid I have no choice but to refer you back to your teacher for REHABILITATION. And by the way, I want to know when the Polling Agent's Power Law was amended for Ghana and by which country ?
Kojo T 12 years ago

You have proven yourself to be uncivilized and unfit to comment in this forum.

You have proven yourself to be uncivilized and unfit to comment in this forum.
THE MOTHERLAND 12 years ago

Sorry, Hagan's piece is rather misleading. If polling agents are not there to check voter identities, check collation results and fill out protest forms where necessary, then what the hell are they there for? Fashion parade?? ...
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Sorry, Hagan's piece is rather misleading. If polling agents are not there to check voter identities, check collation results and fill out protest forms where necessary, then what the hell are they there for? Fashion parade??
You sobs would say anything to win an argument. Your lack of enduring principles, as Tsatsu is wont to say, is indeed pathetic!!
CARDINAL 12 years ago

Tsatsu is a poor excuse of a Trial Lawyer and it doesn't even take a lawyer to see that. Some of us who have seen lawyers in court on murous occassions do cross examination can tell Tsatsu might be a great Law Professor but h ...
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Tsatsu is a poor excuse of a Trial Lawyer and it doesn't even take a lawyer to see that. Some of us who have seen lawyers in court on murous occassions do cross examination can tell Tsatsu might be a great Law Professor but he is not a Trial Lawyer. Trial lawyering is a specialty Tsatsu has no clue about and he is acting in court like a dog chasing its own tail going in circles.

Atuguba has to rescue Tsatsu on mant occassions and it was sad when Tsatsu asked asked a question about IC and that Bawumiah rather corrected him when it came out Tsatsu had no clue what the IC is.

Tsatsu has asked many open ended questions that have given Dr Bawumiah to make statements and evry trial lawyer knows that, you don't ask a Witness questions you don't know what the answer is going to be neither do you have to ask open questions with WHAT, WHEN, HOW suffixes and Tsatsu has done that in abandon at one time even asking Dr Bawumiah about his opinion, a NO NO in law 101 that even a first year law student can tell you.

Anytime he makes such mistakes, instead of telling Dr Bawumiah that he has answered the question asked and NO STATEMENTS IS NEEDED, because he has no Trial experience, he tries to cut Dr Bawumiah off with another quick question and that is not how it is done.

It's sad to see his supporters who have no clue what is going on praising his failed cross examination. After twelve days cross examining Dr Bawumiah, it has come out that Tsatsu vaunted luminary legal mind is just a mirage. Tsatsu will not even succeed in USA as a Traffic Ticket lawyer, he is that horrible.
CARDINAL 12 years ago

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Tsatsu is a poor excuse of a Trial Lawyer and it doesn't even take a lawyer to see that. Some of us who have seen lawyers in court on numerous occassions do cross examination can tell Tsatsu might be a great Law Pr ...
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Tsatsu is a poor excuse of a Trial Lawyer and it doesn't even take a lawyer to see that. Some of us who have seen lawyers in court on numerous occassions do cross examination can tell Tsatsu might be a great Law Professor but he is not a Trial Lawyer. Trial lawyering is a specialty Tsatsu has no clue about and he is acting in court like a dog chasing its own tail going in circles.

Atuguba has to rescue Tsatsu on many occassions and it was sad when Tsatsu asked asked a question about IC and that Bawumiah rather corrected him when it came out Tsatsu had no clue what the IC is.

Tsatsu has asked many open ended questions that have given Dr Bawumiah to make statements and every trial lawyer knows that, you don't ask a Witness questions you don't know what the answer is going to be neither do you have to ask open questions with WHAT, WHEN, HOW suffixes and Tsatsu has done that in abandon at one time even asking Dr Bawumiah about his opinion, a NO NO in law 101 that even a first year law student can tell you.

Anytime he makes such mistakes, instead of telling Dr Bawumiah that he has answered the question asked and NO STATEMENTS IS NEEDED, because he has no Trial experience, he tries to cut Dr Bawumiah off with another quick question and that is not how it is done.

It's sad to see his supporters who have no clue what is going on praising his failed cross examination. After twelve days cross examining Dr Bawumiah, it has come out that Tsatsu vaunted luminary legal mind is just a mirage. Tsatsu will not even succeed in USA as a Traffic Ticket lawyer, he is that horrible.
Appiah Ankrah 12 years ago

YOUR TRIAL LAWYER, IMPERSONATOR IN CHIEF IS HOWEVER AFRAID TO MOUNT THE WITNESS BOX TO FACE A NON TRIAL LAWYER! .YOU SEE HOW STUPID YOU ARE?.JSS MMOFRA MMOFRA!.

YOUR TRIAL LAWYER, IMPERSONATOR IN CHIEF IS HOWEVER AFRAID TO MOUNT THE WITNESS BOX TO FACE A NON TRIAL LAWYER! .YOU SEE HOW STUPID YOU ARE?.JSS MMOFRA MMOFRA!.
CARDINAL 12 years ago

Hey dummy, can you stop shouting and being angry and instead employ your brain for a nanosecond? Shouting will not mask your clodness, do you know that? Nana Akuffo is intelligent enough to know that Dr Bawumiah is better ...
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Hey dummy, can you stop shouting and being angry and instead employ your brain for a nanosecond? Shouting will not mask your clodness, do you know that? Nana Akuffo is intelligent enough to know that Dr Bawumiah is better statistically to explain this complex rigging scheme because of his doctorate in Economics unlike Tsatsu whose ego is bigger than his intelligence which has now exposed him as very ordinary lawyer not even worth to trial a case at a traffic ticket court.
Kwame, Accra 12 years ago

Cardinal, go to work and stop using the computer as your work, or you are a serial caller.

Anyway now serial callers even claim they are working. With recession in Europe and unemployment in Africa, serial calling is a ...
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Cardinal, go to work and stop using the computer as your work, or you are a serial caller.

Anyway now serial callers even claim they are working. With recession in Europe and unemployment in Africa, serial calling is a nice self employment.

Maybe, you are ready to grab some bungalows like Jake and Kufour chains for the neck.
Oh! NPP
KOLA, LONDON PROPER 12 years ago

You need someone to advise you to consider writing Twi instead of English.

You have a very poor grasp of the Queens Language...haahahahahahaa!!!

You need someone to advise you to consider writing Twi instead of English.

You have a very poor grasp of the Queens Language...haahahahahahaa!!!
CARDINAL 12 years ago

That is the difference between you and I. When I make a mistake, I can correct myself unlike you who have no clue what you write and insist that a group of children is childrens.

Author:KOLA, INSIDE PROPER LONDON

D ...
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That is the difference between you and I. When I make a mistake, I can correct myself unlike you who have no clue what you write and insist that a group of children is childrens.

Author:KOLA, INSIDE PROPER LONDON

Date:2012-03-22 00:10:15

Comment to:CHILDRENS COMPUTERS?

Childrens used in my sentence means 'group of children' i.e is childrens.............Your illiteracy has no limit, Kookoase Sarpong.
KOLA, LONDON PROPER 12 years ago

We thought you got burnt in the Texas Fertilizer inferno but here you are, alive and kicking.

It will be sad not to hear from you as most of us would have been missing your grammatical bullets of mass destruction...hahahah ...
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We thought you got burnt in the Texas Fertilizer inferno but here you are, alive and kicking.

It will be sad not to hear from you as most of us would have been missing your grammatical bullets of mass destruction...hahahahahaha!!!
CARDINAL 12 years ago

There you go manufacturing grammatical bullets already.

WRITE

It would have been sad not to hear from you

NOT

It will be sad not to hear from you.

There you go manufacturing grammatical bullets already.

WRITE

It would have been sad not to hear from you

NOT

It will be sad not to hear from you.
Agboste, Ada 12 years ago

I think Cardinal is not working and waiting for the NPP to come so he can start dealing in cocaine.

Just like Amoateng and the likes were doing

I think Cardinal is not working and waiting for the NPP to come so he can start dealing in cocaine.

Just like Amoateng and the likes were doing
Nana Yaw U.S. Navy 12 years ago

Why do u guys in London even talk!!! U guy are in shit hole so shut up

Why do u guys in London even talk!!! U guy are in shit hole so shut up
KOLA'S GRAMMATICAL BULLETS 12 years ago

The alarm bells are warning everyone to take cover as the destructive grammatical bullets of indiscipline KOLA are flying dangerously everywhere on the forum.

The alarm bells are warning everyone to take cover as the destructive grammatical bullets of indiscipline KOLA are flying dangerously everywhere on the forum.
THE MOTHERLAND 12 years ago

Sorry, a misleading piece it rather was. If polling agents are not there to check voter identities, check collation results and fill out protest forms where necessary, then what the hell are they there for? Fashion parade??
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Sorry, a misleading piece it rather was. If polling agents are not there to check voter identities, check collation results and fill out protest forms where necessary, then what the hell are they there for? Fashion parade??
You sobs would say anything to win an argument. Your lack of enduring principles, as Tsatsu is wont to say, is indeed pathetic!!
Kwadwo 12 years ago

This is a brilliant case analysis and should be presented as a law review article. I doubt Tsatsu took notice of the cases you sighted before cross examining Bawumia adnorseum on the role of the Polling agents. Good job.

This is a brilliant case analysis and should be presented as a law review article. I doubt Tsatsu took notice of the cases you sighted before cross examining Bawumia adnorseum on the role of the Polling agents. Good job.
Wiafe 12 years ago

Hey hagan, according to the case law you just summarized, the Electoral Comission has the sole power to call elctions and winners--and they have called the election for Mahama.

So why is the NPP wasting time and resources ...
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Hey hagan, according to the case law you just summarized, the Electoral Comission has the sole power to call elctions and winners--and they have called the election for Mahama.

So why is the NPP wasting time and resources of the country?
Adzwololo 12 years ago

WIAFE, YOU ARE RIGHT BUT THE EC DID SOMETHING SPECTACULAR WHICH GHANA POLICE IS A MASTER OF.

WIAFE, YOU ARE RIGHT BUT THE EC DID SOMETHING SPECTACULAR WHICH GHANA POLICE IS A MASTER OF.
Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 12 years ago

Kwadwo, I beg to differ because Tsatsu's argument on the role of party agents at the polling stations is not about delegation of responsibility or duty. Instead, he questioned if NPP agents were not happy with the polling res ...
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Kwadwo, I beg to differ because Tsatsu's argument on the role of party agents at the polling stations is not about delegation of responsibility or duty. Instead, he questioned if NPP agents were not happy with the polling results as is being claimed, why did they not put in official complaint by completing the complaint form? Mr Hagan's attack on the lead Counsel for the third respondent is misguided and uncalled for. His analysis of case law and its application to this matter is out of place, misrepresentation and misapplication of the law. You cannot apply (case) law that is irrelevant to a particular situation or case and that is what Mr Hagan sought unsuccessfully to do. I hope he is not a lawyer because if he is then it's very serious.
Okonko Palm 12 years ago

The main duties of the agent is to act in the principals best interest and honestly.Mr Hagan forgets that a duty is created by this appointment.In effect the acts and omissions of the agent are the responsibility of the princ ...
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The main duties of the agent is to act in the principals best interest and honestly.Mr Hagan forgets that a duty is created by this appointment.In effect the acts and omissions of the agent are the responsibility of the principal.So if the agent fails to discharge his or her duties as the principal expects of him,the responsibility of that lack of duty of care is that of the principal.

The common law Hagan is relying on relates more to the election process than the role of the electoral agent and the duties expected of the agent in the conduct and transparency of the elections.By law,these duties and responsibilities are very important so the agent can hold the electoral agent or the presiding officer accountable at each and every stage of the electoral process.Any over rule by the presiding officer must be documented for later adjudication.It is again important to remind Hagan that time does not wait for the indolent and whether the duties of the agent are properly discharged or not, the principal is vicariously responsible to the out come.
ASANTE 12 years ago

Kofi Ata, it is your prerogative to view things differently from others; but passing judgement on the competency of others based on your misconceptions and poor analysis of an event is unwarranted.

The author painstakingly ...
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Kofi Ata, it is your prerogative to view things differently from others; but passing judgement on the competency of others based on your misconceptions and poor analysis of an event is unwarranted.

The author painstakingly drew attention to Tsatsu’s inept cross examination of a petitioner; and Tsatsu’s calculated and misguided attempt to rest the failings of an Electoral Commission (EC) on the shoulders of Party Agents. The author rightly pointed out the distinction between the roles of a Party Agent and a Presiding officer (an agent for an Electoral Commission) during an election.

The happiness or unhappiness of a Party Agent at a polling station is beside the point of contention. The point is that The Electoral Commission allegedly failed in its duty to ensure the accuracy of election results at polls in question. It is the Electoral Commission and its agents that are paid by the tax payer to ensure that the rules governing any election are correctly followed at the polls.

Poll observers such as Party Agents have the right to raise objections about the conduct at the polls, if they have reason to do so. However, a missed opportunity by an observer to draw attention to an error during counting at a poll does not absolve the EC from its duty to correct an error or ensure election rules are observed by all participants.

The onus for the proper maintenance and enforcement of the rules governing an election falls directly in the hands of the EC and not in the hands of Party Agents. Hence, Tsatsu’s line of questioning aimed at deflecting attention from the ineptitude of the EC to Party observers is amateurish and lacks punch. A party observer may miss a trick and inadvertently append their signature to a fraudulent election result. The signature does not authenticate the fraudulent act if later the fraud comes to light.
Appiah Ankrah 12 years ago

IF THERE IS SOMEONE LEGALLY PATHETIC, IT'S YOUR IMPERSONATOR IN CHIEF & FAKE LAWYER, AKUFFO ADDO WHO CANNOT MOUNT THE WITNESS BOX.

IF THERE IS SOMEONE LEGALLY PATHETIC, IT'S YOUR IMPERSONATOR IN CHIEF & FAKE LAWYER, AKUFFO ADDO WHO CANNOT MOUNT THE WITNESS BOX.
Real Ghanaian 12 years ago

Well for your information,Akuffo-Addo cannot be deemed pathetic, when cases he has won are cited in Ghana. Guess who is pathetic- Rtd. Justice Kpegah, who chose the path you are on now and slipped badly. So do not ever bring ...
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Well for your information,Akuffo-Addo cannot be deemed pathetic, when cases he has won are cited in Ghana. Guess who is pathetic- Rtd. Justice Kpegah, who chose the path you are on now and slipped badly. So do not ever bring up those propaganda, envy-driven assertions about Nana Akuffo-Addo. How can you call him fake when it has been proven otherwise.
Togbe Ahiabor 12 years ago

The idiot has no cyberspace etiquette blinding us with his caps comment.

The idiot has no cyberspace etiquette blinding us with his caps comment.
HolyGhost 12 years ago

What has been proven,do you think we are kids to believe in your gibberish, akufo addo never attended any law school and have no law certificate, he is therefore a first class fraud for practising law in Ghana

What has been proven,do you think we are kids to believe in your gibberish, akufo addo never attended any law school and have no law certificate, he is therefore a first class fraud for practising law in Ghana
Sam Bern 12 years ago

You have no idea what you are talking about. Go read on the Law on Agency and you will know that your agents were not mere observers and that what ever they attested to is legally binding on your party. THIS will help you an ...
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You have no idea what you are talking about. Go read on the Law on Agency and you will know that your agents were not mere observers and that what ever they attested to is legally binding on your party. THIS will help you and your party stop leaving in a fool's paradise., ,thinkingtheSC will give judgement in your favour
CARDINAL 12 years ago

Idiot, what has law on Agency got to do with Agents in election? Law of Agency is a tort law on bailments and has nothing to do with polling agents.

"Stop leaving in fools Paradise "?

What an illiterate trying to sound ...
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Idiot, what has law on Agency got to do with Agents in election? Law of Agency is a tort law on bailments and has nothing to do with polling agents.

"Stop leaving in fools Paradise "?

What an illiterate trying to sound intelligent. You don't even know the difference between LEAVING and LIVING and you dumbass is talking about law on Agency. Illiterate ndc fool soldiers.
James, Kwashima 12 years ago

I think sam is right. This case of the NPP will lead nowhere. But Cardinal seems to be so deep in this case. Take it easyooo!
Used your mind and not your heart

I think sam is right. This case of the NPP will lead nowhere. But Cardinal seems to be so deep in this case. Take it easyooo!
Used your mind and not your heart
CARDINAL 12 years ago

Idiot, what has law on Agency got to do with Agents in election? Law of Agency is a tort law on bailments and has nothing to do with polling agents.

"Stop leaving in fools Paradise "?

What an illiterate trying to sound ...
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Idiot, what has law on Agency got to do with Agents in election? Law of Agency is a tort law on bailments and has nothing to do with polling agents.

"Stop leaving in fools Paradise "?

What an illiterate trying to sound intelligent. You don't even know the difference between LEAVING and LIVING and you dumbass is talking about law on Agency. Illiterate ndc fool soldiers.
kasabio 12 years ago

A brilliant write-up. Kudos my friend.

A brilliant write-up. Kudos my friend.
kasabio 12 years ago

A brilliant write-up. Kudos my friend.

A brilliant write-up. Kudos my friend.
kasabio 12 years ago

A brilliant write-up. Kudos my friend.

A brilliant write-up. Kudos my friend.
kanawu 12 years ago

A brilliant write-up. Kudos

A brilliant write-up. Kudos
kasabio 12 years ago

A brilliant write-up. Kudos my friend.

A brilliant write-up. Kudos my friend.
kasabio 12 years ago

A brilliant write-up. Kudos my friend.

A brilliant write-up. Kudos my friend.
Alicia 12 years ago

Irrational Hagan shows his ability of lacking common sense. Senseless article.

Irrational Hagan shows his ability of lacking common sense. Senseless article.

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