Atuguba’s 2,876 Pink Sheets not in the Registrar’s set; Registrar’s 6,629 also not in Atuguba’s set

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Created on Monday, 24 June 2013 00:00

Atuguba’s 2,876 Pink Sheets not in the Registrar’s set; Registrar’s 6,629 also not in Atuguba’s set

Nii Amanor Dodoo, a partner at KPMG, has confirmed to the Supreme Court sitting on the Presidential Election Petition that the count of the pink sheets in the custody of the registrar of the court and the President of the panel of judges, Justice William Atuguba, revealed that there were pink sheets in the custody of the President which were not in the set of the registrar and vice versa.

Nii Amanor Dodoo made the revelation when he took the witness stand to defend the final report on the count produced by KPMG who were appointed as referee to do a true and faithful count of the pink sheets in the custody of the registry and the President of the Panel.

While being cross examined by lead Counsel for the petitioners, Philip Addison, Nii Dodoo stated that the count revealed that 2,876 Pink Sheets in Justice Atuguba’s set were not in the set of the Registrar while similarly 6,629 pink sheets in the set of the registrar is not in the set of the President of the Panel.

The petitioners’ lead counsel also stated that 1,097 pink sheets out of the 4,089 pink sheets used by the respondents in their cross-examination of Mahamudu Bawumia, star witness of the petitioners, were not in the set of the registrar, while 2,230 Pink Sheets out of the 4,089 used by the respondents in their cross examination are not in the set of the President of the panel.

Philip Addison stated that 648 pink sheets used by the respondents in their cross-examination were neither in the set of the registrar nor that of the President of the panel.

While following up on questions on the pink sheets used by the respondents in their cross examination of Dr Bawumia which were duly filed by the petitioners but are not in the sets of the President of the Panel or that of the registrar, Counsel for John Mahama and the NDC objected to the particular line of questioning, indicating that the referee was not competent enough to answer those questions and that the questions were not relevant to the work of the referee.

However, Counsel Addison countered their argument by saying that pink sheets in question could not be described as irrelevant to the matter on board, especially because what precipitated the whole count of the pink sheets was the need to determine the specific number of pink sheets which had been filed by the petitioners.

By a majority ruling of eight 8:1, the Court overruled the objection and allowed Counsel for the Petitioners to continue with his questions.

Mr Amanoo Dodoo also stated that in all 13,926 pink sheets were counted in the registrar’s set and that 9,860 pink sheets were also counted in the set of the President of the panel.

He also indicated that the set of the President of the panel was short by one box which had been stated in the final report.

Source: thestatesmanonline