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  • Jean Mensah Cannot Escape the Court- Article 64 Tells; Prepare for Drama

    Jean Mensah Cannot Escape the Court- Article 64 Tells; Prepare for Drama

    Yesterday the counsel for the Electoral Commission prayed the supreme court to close the case because they won’t need any more witnesses to prove their case.

    If the application is granted, Jean Mensa and Marc Manu will not mount the witness box today. But what does the law really say about such situation?

    According to professor Kwaku Azar, who is a legal practitioner in Ghana, the standard for evaluating this kind of motion is whether the petitioner has failed to establish a prima facie case in support of the believe that they seek and therefore not require to prove every element of their case.

    According to Article 64, the returning officer is not just a necessary and a material party but a more important. The returning officer is the only one who can provide with definitive evidence that at the end of the day, rebuts the petitioner’s claim.

    The returning officer performs a public function and has the cost to answer questions from the petitioner for all parties and the entire country to remove all stains of doubts surrounding the 2020 election outcome.

    This means that Jean Mensah is a necessary tool to clear any doubt about the election outcome.

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  • Jean Mensa caused a lot of mess in election 2020 than her predecessors – Justice Abdulai

    Jean Mensa caused a lot of mess in election 2020 than her predecessors – Justice Abdulai

    The Electoral Commissioner, Jean Mensah has caused a lot of confusion in Ghana’s electoral system than her forerunners, a private legal practitioner, Justice Abdulai has said.

    Mr Abdulai explained that, during the period the EC Boss was the Executive Director of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), she gave a lot of practical measures that should be undertaken by the Commission in order to better the electoral system.

    However, he said, when given the opportunity to serve as the Chair of the elections management body, she has neglected all those measures to adopt new ones that in his opinion, do not help the system.

    Mr Abdulai said these while contributing to issues that have emerged from the December 7 presidential and parliamentary elections.

    The main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) and their presidential candidate, John Dramani Mahama refused to accept the results of the 2020 elections because in their view, the figures were manipulated by the Commission in favour of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP).
    The NDC has served notice that they will be challenging the results in the Supreme Court. They are expected to file the petition on Wednesday December 30.

    Commenting on these developments, Mr Abdulai said “She was making fantastic recommendations when outside of the Commission, organizing the NPP and the NDC together and telling them the most appropriate things to do and telling us how best we can have the best elections in this country.

    “With all the sponsorship you can have, now you have been given the ball kick it into the goal post and you are rather causing more mess than your predecessors.”

    Mr Richard Kumadoe, a Security Consultant said on the same programme also that “Our pride as Ghanaians is being derailed.

    “I deal with the community and they say it to my face that we are failing. This is a major job you have done and you actions and inactions have security implications in relation to national development and you need cohesion as much as you did and look at the mess.”

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