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If the EC chair doesn’t mount the witness box, it will be an international embarrassment to Ghana – Amaliba

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Director of Legal Affairs for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Abraham Amaliba, has cautioned that if the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Jean Mensa does not mount the witness box to testify in respect to the ongoing election petition, it will be an international embarrassment to Ghana.

The EC on Monday announced its decision  not to take the witness stand in the hearing of the election petition.

This was after lawyers for the EC and President Akufo-Addo, being the 1st and 2nd Respondents, had indicated that they do not intend to call witnesses.

Though, the defendants had indicated that they will call one witness each but following Rojo Mettle-Nunoo’s cross-examination during Monday’s hearing, they told the court they have rescinded that decision.

The legal team from the 1st and 2nd respondents argued that the evidence presented by the witnesses for the petitioner and from cross-examination does not support the reliefs being requested by the petitioner, John Dramani Mahama, in the petition filed.

But speaking on A1 Radio, Mr. Amaliba expressed shock at the development; saying the EC chair has a constitutional duty to the people of Ghana and should therefore be made to account for her roles in the outcome of the 2020 elections.

“It is a bad precedence if that is to occur, that the EC chair who is entrusted with the constitutional duty to now turn around and say that I have decided I won’t take the witness box. And she will not tell the people of this country how she discharged her duty on the 7th of December, it’s a bad precedence if we allow this to happen.

If the EC chair has nothing to hide, she should be the first person eager to mount the witness box. If we allow this to happen, it will be an international disgrace to us.” Mr. Amaliba stated.

The Supreme Court will today, February 9, hear legal arguments from parties involved in the 2020 Election Petition on whether the chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC) Jean Mensa will mount the witness box to testify or not.

Mr. Amaliba said the legal team for the petitioner is not peterbed; and that it “will soldier-on and leave it to the people of this country to determine and judge what is happening in the Supreme Court.”

Source: A1Radioonline.com|101.1MHz|Ghana

 

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