Legal representatives of the Electoral Commission (EC) on July 5, 2017 failed to furnish the Human Rights court presided over by Justice Anthony Yeboah with details of the steps they have taken so far to implement the Representation of the Peoples Amendment Act (ROPAA).
At the last court sitting, lawyers for both the EC and Attorney General (AG) indicated to the court that they do have vital details of steps the EC have taken and are still undertaking to execute the 12 year old law.
However today in court, Grace Ewool representing the AG and Baffour Gyewu, representing the EC and holding Thaddeus Sory’s brief, submitted to the court that they no longer have any useful evidence nor documents to present to the court in support of the their case.
Lead counsel for the Applicants, Samson Ayenini, expressed great surprise in court, describing the actions of the defendants as acts carried out in bad faith.
He underscored that the defendants in the case have only sort to delay the wheels of Justice by their actions and in actions.
The presiding Judge obviously surprised by the announcement in court by the defendants referred them to their two pieces of evidence of alleged ongoing work.
The Judge asked when one of those was authored as it is was undated.
The defendants replied that it predates the other which is dated as September 2011.
Lawyer for the applicants pointed out to the judge that the two documents only expressed intention and nothing more and that the clear and obvious indication is that EC has simply been sleeping on the job since it authored those two supposed roadmap for the implementation of ROPAA. The court inspite of the drama by the defendants has orders parties to file their issues for adoption and subsequently file their written legal arguments by 30th of July 2017. Hopefully the court will deliver its Judgment at the start of the 2017/2018 legal year.
By: Ghana/Ultimatefmonline.com/106.9FM/Wilberforce Asare
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Legal representatives of the Electoral Commission (EC) on July 5, 2017 failed to furnish the Human Rights court presided over by Justice Anthony Yeboah with details of the steps they have taken so far to implement the Representation of the Peoples Amendment Act (ROPAA). At the last court sitting, lawyers for both the EC and […]
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