Mensah Thompson, The Executive Director of ASEPA, a civil society organization, has argued that even though the Supreme Court dismissed the motion to serve interrogatories on the Electoral Commission (EC) in the ongoing 2020 Election Petition, the chairperson of the EC, Jean Mensa, will still eventually answer the questions the motion sought to ask.
The Supreme Court in a unanimous decision dismissed the motion of leave sought by lawyers of the Petitioner, John Mahama, to serve interrogatories on the EC.
Expressing his view about the decision of the Judges, Mr. Thompson noted that the Court only succeeded in deferring the questions that the lawyers of John Mahama sought to ask the EC, insisting that during cross-examination, the lawyers could still serve these questions to the EC and she will have to provide answers.
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Counsel for the petitioner can still raise those issues during the course of the trial especially during cross examination which we totally agree, but there is a saying in Akan that says “a slap that belongs to you, the earlier you take it the better
He said
To him what the Supreme Court has done by this dismissal is only to defer this unavoidable “slap” that ultimately belongs to the Chairperson of the first Respondent to later in the trial and she will have to receive it.
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