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SC Unanimously Affirms the Rights to Vote

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  • Wiafe 10 years ago

    The petition had no merit. The petitioners were relying on their sympathizers on the court to help them out. But the chief justice saw the train wreck and made sure she took herself out.

  • Kwobia,Toronto 10 years ago

    The NPP set up a gargantuan task for the SC by asking that more than 41/2 million votes be annulled to make Addo president.This was a non starter from the get go.

  • Sally, UK 10 years ago

    NPP was asking the court to do what is unconstitutional even though they claim they have good lawyers

  • BOY KOFI 10 years ago

    Please do your Mathematics well.First of all the Supreme Court rejected all the 6 claims of irregularities filed by the petitioners.Let's see how the judges did it.
    1.Duplicate of serial numbers. 9-0
    2.Duplicate of polli ...
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  • Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 10 years ago

    I should apologise for the mistake in the title. It should have been The Right and not The Rights.

    BOY KOFI,I have never come across tabulation of court decision in the way you have done. After the Justices unanimously dis ...
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  • BOY KOFI 10 years ago

    Please explain to me how you came to the 5-4 majority rule.You have 6 different categories of irregularities and you have 9 judges to determine the verdict.Are you telling me that 5 of the judges dismissed the petition and 4 ...
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  • Adams 10 years ago

    Ghana is known for being pocket lawyers and enjoy oratorical mumbo-jumbo. It is making our neighbors in Africa leave us behind because we are thinking we are the best based on talk talk. We are a nation of no consequence. Jus ...
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  • Marfo Nkansah 10 years ago

    Boy Kofi thank you a million times for this clarification.!!!

  • Paul Amuna 10 years ago

    Kofi, you are right that the justices categorically rejected the petitioners' pleading for votes to be annuled. However let's not confuse NVNV with the issue of "biometric verification" which is only one part of the process.
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  • Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 10 years ago

    Paul, I am not sure what sort of post petition postmortem NPP will do. But, was it not interesting that even the minority Justices who granted the claims of over voting, voting without biometric verification and unsigned pink ...
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  • Paul Amuna 10 years ago

    Kofi, it would be interesting to see what their detailed decisions were indeed. Kwaku Azar seems to already have some "details" for one of the justices and this has been posted on GLU. I wonder where and how he got this.

    M ...
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  • Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 10 years ago

    Paul, what is GLU? I do not visit that and is it possible to copy what Azar has posted.

    I will ask him to send me a copy.

  • Paul Amuna 10 years ago

    GLU is Ghana Leadership Union, a forum set up by Dr Kwaku A. Danso and which boasts the likes of Kwame Npianim, Raymond Atuguba, Kwaku Asare etc. as members. I was invited to join only two weeks ago and there is a lot of inte ...
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  • Paul Amuna 10 years ago

    Folks,here is Kwaku Azar's posting about Justice Yeboah's decision on biometric voting (or the lack thereof).

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    "I would have readily proceeded to grant the reliefs sought in its entirety but the ONLY ...
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  • Joe McDictionary 10 years ago

    Kofi Attsa,
    What does unanimous mean and in what context does the unanimous in your article title refer to. Is 5 -4 unanimous??

  • Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 10 years ago

    Joe, I have reread the article and cannot find where I stated that there was 5-4 unanimous. I said 5-4 majority. The unanimous affirmation of the right to vote was from the fact, even the 4 Justices who annulled the votes reg ...
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  • 696969 10 years ago

    THE MOST DISGRACED PRESIDENT EVER LIVED- MR JOHN DRAMANI MAHAMA. NOW READ

    IT IS VERY VERY SAD AND DISAPPOINTING THAT THE JUDGES OF THE APEX OF LAW APPLICATION BODY(SUPREME COURT) WILL HAVE TO BASED THEIR JUDGEMENT ON WHOEV ...
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  • Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 10 years ago

    No doubt you could not even use a name but represented yourself with figures. My response to you is simple. For making such an unsubstantiated but very serious allegation, you in contempt of court. I am sure you were aware of ...
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  • pink sheet president 10 years ago

    Thank you Kofi for your article,but leave that coward who goes by 696969.#He is a disgrace to society !

  • Jato Kaleo 10 years ago

    GHANAIANS WITH DUAL CITIZENSHIP SHOULD BE ENFRANCHISED PRESIDENT MAHAHAMA SHOULD COMMISSION THE CONSTTUTIONAL COMMITTEE TO GET TO WORK RIGHT AWAY.

  • KBK 10 years ago

    Nice piece

  • pink sheet president 10 years ago

    Kofi Atta,
    I have not read any of your earlier articles for me to tag a political lineage to your personality.But from what i read here, you have been fair and open minded in your preaentation and opinion. May God help you t ...
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  • Nyansasem 10 years ago

    "Among the reliefs sought by the Petitioners was for the SC was an outright annulment of 4 million Ghanaians including those who “allegedly” voted without biometric verification and to deny them their constitutional right ...
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  • Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 10 years ago

    Nyansasem, you used to be subjective in your comments on my articles util one day I asked "what do you want from me"? Thereafter, you became objective with your comments. Now you have gone back to wear your old subjective hat ...
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  • Nyansasem 10 years ago

    Kofi, why do you always personalize issues? Let it known to you that you did not "change" me and you can't change me. Get that right. My response to articles are based on the objectivity of the writer. Here is case, you are q ...
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  • Nyansasem 10 years ago

    Over to you, Kofi. I want your opinion on Tsatsu insinuating that Justice Anim is bias. The same Tsatsu who had audacity to insult people in front of the judges while Atuguba laughs.

    Lead Counsel for the governing National ...
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  • Adams 10 years ago

    This Tsatsu guy wants Ghana to start war, otherwise why is he talking such rubbish. He is opening the floodgate for others to start dissecting the Peppefours in the Supreme Court and blame the most nefarious Atubuga. Tsatsu m ...
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  • Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 10 years ago

    Nyansasem, the said report was the first item I read when I logged onto Ghanaweb after diner. In fact, I was unaware that you had asked for my views on what Tsatsu said. But on reading your comment on that report, I found it ...
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  • Dr Yaw Ohemeng 10 years ago

    Kofi, you have jumped the gun in the same way that you thought I had. I do not see the ruling as upholding the right to vote at all costs. You have only looked at one article in the Constitution. The Constitution only talks a ...
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  • Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 10 years ago

    Dr Ohemeng, I will not argue with you over me also jumping the gun. Yes, I might have though I thought I could review that aspect of the verdict before the written reasons are known but you are right.

    Regarding CI 75, I am ...
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  • Kwaku 10 years ago

    If it not too late, could you send SC ruling on Ghanaians with citizenship of other countries to bokyi2001@yahoo.com

  • Paul Amuna 10 years ago

    Kofi, Here’s more from Justice Yeboah which Kwaku Azar has let out:
    “… I have noticed that all the pink sheets captured in the data were in the KPMG report which was accepted by the court as the official record of pink ...
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  • Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 10 years ago

    Paul, thanks a lot. They make interesting reading but I will reserve my comment until I have read the written reason/s in their entirety so I can make more informed comments.

  • JC 10 years ago

    YES! IT MEANS THERE IS NO NEED FOR ELECTORAL LAWS! DANGEROUS RULING! DISHONEST SC JUDGES. TOTAL DISREGARD FOR C.Is. WHAT A COURT!