Asiedu Nketia Sừffḝṝs Tough Questions From EC Lawyer At The supreme Court

[Music] so now the 20 20 december 7 elections was conducted and the rules passed by parliament is that correct the 20 20 december 7 elections were passed was conducted by rules passed by parliament is that correct and that's correct my lord it is supposed to be passed to be by conducted rules but we have issues about the application of the rules in the conduct of the elections ci 127 is binding on the petition well yes it was expensive the petitioner appointed agents for each of the polling stations in the country is that correct that's correct my lord how many agents did the petitioner appoint for each polling station two agents now at each polling station the petitioner and indeed all the other candidates have agents these are correct i cannot speak for all other candidates now you train your agents on what their duties at the polling stations will be yes my lord that's correct you trained your agents on how from state a and eight b was to be completed in each of the polling stations that's correct my lord you trained your agents on how each form was self-auditing and designate designed to reduce errors and mistakes is that correct sounds correct my lord you also trained them that at any point that they had a problem with what was happening at the polling station they could refuse to sign the phone but state the reasons for it is that correct that's correct my lord you also train them that if they stated their reasons for not signing the issue will be taken up at the constituency coalition centers is that correct that's correct my lord you also trained your agents that at the end of counting and entrained of figures they collect their copies of their from aids whether or not they signed it is that correct that's correct my lord you also appointed events for each of their 275 consequences coalition centers is that correct that's correct my lord you train them that unresolved issues from polling stations will be nailed on from hb for resolution at the constituency coalition centers is that correct that's correct my lord you also train them to expect to receive the duplicates of the from abs that have been given to them at the polling stations is that correct that's correct my love now you also train them to cross-check their formulae b's with anything that is done at the constituency coalition center is that correct that's [Music] correct we also train them that from all the information from 8b the ec officials will collate the results onto phone number is that correct that's correct my lord you train them that after collating on from nine the results will be entered on something is that correct that's correct my lord at all with the involvement of our agents now you also train them that if they had any issues with form 10 they could refuse to sign it and state their reasons therefore that correct that's correct now we also trained them that once the form tents were completed they were entitled to their copies that's correct my lord so it is right to assume that your agents have all the fountains with them is that correct don't agree my lord i'm saying that it is right to assume that based on your ancestors your agents had a fountain with them yes my lord it could be assumed yes whether that is the case it's another matter now you also agree with me that with our elections results are declared at all the polling stations before they move on to the constituency once the results are counted they are declared at the polling station before we move on to the constituency centers yes my lord unless there is a challenge about a particular polling station resource yes and at the constituency level the correlated results are put together and then a winner of a particular constituency is declared these are correct we have two elections at the consequences that are collated at the constituency level i don't know which one another presidential or parliamentary sen you are here because of the presidential election okay yeah my question is in reference to the presidential election the declaration is not done at the constituency level they indicate the tally for each candidate the presidential election results are declared at the national level by the returning officer are you therefore saying that at the constituency level your agent do not know who has this number of value votes at the fully consequence level that's what i'm calling the tally the tally of the votes are known but that is not a declaration of like presidential you trained your agents that the form tents will be transmitted to the original coalition centers is that correct that's correct i now you also appointed agents to each regional coalition center is that correct that's correct indeed some of your agents has announced publicly were lawyers is that correct that's correct my lord now now you also train your agents that all the information on some things be correlated into from 11 is that correct that's correct my lord we also train them that from collating the results on from 11 the results will be entered in from 12 is that correct that's correct my lord now you also train them that at that point they would be invited to either sign onto the control or object is that correct that's correct but they are involved so they are not sitting somewhere only to be invited to sign they are involved in the coalition and if they agree that the process has been proper they they are invited to sign okay now are you aware that of the 16 regional coalition funds your agent signed testing of them yes my lord are you also aware that one of such forms that was signed was in reference to the ashanti regime is that correct one of the forms that your agent signed he was in reference to the chantilly yes my lord your agent signed the phone for ahafu is that correct that's correct man lord well agent signed a form for oti is that correct that's correct my lord your agent signed a form for northeast is that correct that's correct my lord your agent signed a form for bono is that correct that's correct my lord your agents are in the form for upper west is that correct that's correct your agent signed a form for upper east is that correct you ask where to reload your agent signed a form for central region is that correct that's correct well the agent signed a form for westin is that correct that's correct your agent signed a form for savannah is that correct that's correct man your agent signed the form of walter is that correct that's correct my lord and your agent signed a form for bono east is that correct east it was signed by ali ahmed sam sudeen that's correct now on each of those forms your agent signed to declare as follows but we the undersigned do hereby declare that the results shown above our true and accurate account of the colors in the region that correct that's correct now at the national coalition center which is the headquarters of the first respondent appointed two persons to that place for the coalition without underscore one of such questions is rojo was that correct yes milo and mr rojo mr moon has been a former deputy minister before that's correct and he said modern afternoon has been involved in elections and has even litigated two cases in these courts is that correct my lord i can't testify to the fact about his litigations but i know he has been involved in our elections now there is a reported case right now are you aware that at the national aviation center mr rodriguez certified 12 of the 13 informed signed by your representatives my lord i cannot testify or deny but the other agent who will be present in court to testify as to what happened in the national coalition center right now let us go to your witness statement you spoke about exhibit d the letter from the national democratic congress yes ma'am nathan 9 december 24th [Music] i suggest you that that letter was not delivered to the first responder my lord our agent who was in the in the headquarters of the first respondent will be present in court and will attest to that fact so you do not know whether it was submitted or not a report was made back to me that it was submitted i am putting to you that that letter was not submitted to the first respondent yes i am putting it to you that that letter was not submitted to the first respondent man that fact will be confirmed or denied by the the agent who will be in the box subsequently [Music] so you are telling this court that you do not have personal knowledge of whether or not the letter was submitted to the first respondent my lord i indicated that i had a report a feedback that it had been submitted and since i wasn't present there i cannot see it as a matter of something that has come to my knowledge right now let's go to your letter your letter is in two parts is that correct you can look at it [Music] it is marked as a bit d would you be kind enough to tell the court the person who signed this letter a lot of people are signed by my deputy on my behalf what's the name of the person [Music] right now you agree with me that the person might see talks about parliamentary elections and therefore has nothing to do with the petition in the sport yes my lord you also agree with me that despite all that you've written about ashanti a shanti who was signed by a gentleman called brutality you know him yes my lord and i'm further putting it to you that ashanti was signed by was certified by mr rojo metronome [Music] my lord the agents who come subsequently will be able to confirm that all the night do you know whether signed or not please i would like to take the question again i'm asking you whether you know that when ashanti came in duelly signed by mr project genfi rojo matamuno signed against it do you know what you don't know the documents that come to our notice is the final declaration the assignment on the on the uh regional declarations at the strong room are not brought to us well i'm putting it to you that for ashanti the form was signed by british agency in ashanti region and then was transmitted and testified and when it was transmitted to the strong room as you call it mr rojo metronome signed it well i can testify or deny because what happens in the strong room is within the knowledge of people who are in the strong room now you have attached to your letter two sheets from the eastern region is that correct that's correct my lord on the first sheet your agent signed the phone is that correct there are two sheets i don't know which is first and which is second the second one is what you have there's one that your agent did not say if you look at the phones there's one the one with the blue ink at the bottom your agent did not sign yes the one that doesn't have the blue in your agent signed yes my lord right now if you put together all the valid votes assigned to each of the candidates that your agent signed the total will be one million one ninety six thousand seven 751 and not the 1 million 236 940 that was written on the phone yes yes my lord that is precisely what i'm about to do i have done the coalitions uh the auditions and i've realized that the totals on both sheets are the same figures but the figures that adapt to the tutors are different and the one month in blue is utterly accurate now let's we'll come to the one martin blue i am saying that if you add up all the valid votes assigned to all the candidates from number one to number 12 on the form that your agent signed the total should be one one nine six seven five one and not the 1236 940 that was written on it my lord i can confirm that the totals are not the aggregates of the numbers there but i don't remember the actual figure that i got if the court will permit me we can we can add and find out what it is yeah yes six so this is [Music] it's not one two nine it's all the ordering codes [Music] [Music] [Music] so 7510 now kindly detect that figure from the figure written on the form that is one two three six nine forty what will you arrive at [Music] wow [Music] forty thousand one zero nine forty thousand one hundred and nine one eighty nine one eight nines okay 189 good now look at the last page of your exhibit e which is the sheet that you attached to your evidence yeah listening now there is a constituency there called aryan swan ayan swan do you see 40 0189 over there yes i am suggesting to you that i am suggesting to you that the second sheet that your agent did not sign was corrected to include the against one constituency results well i cannot testify to that because if there is any correction to be made on any declaration those who are part of the declaration will be present for the request for the corrections to be made yes but you also are aware that where the person whom you have appointed to represent you leaves and refuses to be part of the process those who are there sign on to the form and the process continues blah yes i'm aware but now i am putting it to you that when the ayansono results were added all the candidates got the additional groups that they bought in ayan sono that's making extra gains to make the total valuables one two three six nine forty i'm putting it to you man can you come again i am putting it to you that when i in swan results that i have just shown you that if you take the difference that you got from the shred sheet from you get 41.89 and that 4189 on your own spreadsheet expe it is spread across all the candidates the only person who didn't give that again to assassination saying that if you put it together the gains that each candidate made in swan will now come to one two three six nine forty and i'm putting that to you yes my lord good now therefore i am fed up within you that the eastern region sheet had no problem for which you ought to have written to the first respondent i deny that my lord now i am further opportunity to you that the three remaining constituencies that your agents they reach the region sorry the three remaining regions that your agents did not sign the petitioner warned those regions if the figures are in contention and we are not able to determine who won [Music] now both reasons those regions are western north northern in great accra i'm putting with you that the candidate one are those regions when the coalition was done that's the petitioner my lord i repeat that if the figures are in contention it is difficult to determine who won now are you therefore saying that with respect to great accra we do not know that the petitioner won the election a lot you claim my agents did not sign which means that the uh is part of our case that the figures are in contention you see and in the presidential elections regions are not one in the presidential elections regions are not won there is one presidential elections and one returning officer who declared the winner at the national level no other declaration of the presidential elections take place anywhere else right well i am putting it to you that for the record western north was won by the petitioner and the western not form although not signed by your representative it was certified by mr rojo metal moon in the strong room my lord the agents in the strong room who mounted with netbooks and they'll be able to testify whether they signed or did not sign do you still stand by your petition in this court the petition the reputation that you found used to sign stand by all the agreements in it yes my lord now let's look at paragraph 12 of your petition sorry repetition of the deposition sorry paragraph 12 of the petition of the petitioner can you read paragraph 12 to the court [Music] [Music] um have you seen it yes my lord can he read it to the court if the total number of valid votes standing to the names of each of the presidential candidates is summed up this will yield a total number of valid votes cuts of 13 121 at 30 million 121 101 a figure that is completely missing from the reported declaration 111 a figure that is completely missing from the purported declaration by mrs jin adukui mensa on 9th december 2020 and the purported ratification on 10th december 2020. now i am putting it to you that the figure in the paragraph 12 of your of the petitioner's petition shows clearly that the number mentioned by the first respondent as the valid vote total value was an error which you have admitted in your petition i hear the question again please i am putting it to you that after the time you filed this petition you knew that the figure 13 121 111 was the correct total valid votes that ought to have been announced on the 9th as you have said in your petition i'm putting it to you lord these are figures we computed from the first respondent's own data that was supplied these are not our figures well we are bound by your petition so let's go on at the point that their declaration was going to be done you have stated that your agents mr merton and dr persa white left the strong room is that correct that's correct i am putting it to you that they left the strong room because they realized that the petitioner had lost their election my lord i can't attest or deny that one and these are matters in the personal knowledge of the agents who be mounting their weakness box subsequently and they left the strong room because they didn't want to sign the foundation i can't attest to that and i'm putting it to you that the total valid votes as at the 9th of december 2020 and captured on from 13 is just the same as the total values in the form in paragraph 12 of the petition my lord we don't know which is the total valid votes as we stand here because the first respondent has turned out several different figures so i our case is that ghana does not know the results of the presidential elections as we sit here now because the petitioner who has the constitutional duty to conduct the elections has not the first responded who has the constitutional duty to conduct the elections and report and exact figures has failed in that duty so we are confronted with several figures and it depends on what you want to believe are you saying that you do not believe in the figure that you wrote in your petition i think my lord i stated that we take these figures from their respondents own uh calculations not ours we haven't so online and i am putting it to you that if your representatives have not left the strong room they would have seen that those figures thirteen one two one one one one was the total value votes as captured on from 13. my lord i can't respond on behalf of the the agents i've indicated that one of them will be in the witness box to testify i am further putting it to you that eight of out of the twelve presidential candidates stayed back and signed on the from 13. my lord i have indicated that the processes within that national coalition center are not within my personal knowledge and so i cannot answer i cannot admit or determine now at the time the petitioner fell this petition he knew the results from the teaching and self-consequence and also my lord i'm not the petitioner

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Published: Fri Jan 29 2021