Dear Manasseh,
The Supreme Court is not a haven for accountability. It is the Public Accounts Committee where such matters are dealt with.
If you have enough justification or compelling reasons to ‘nail’ Jean Mensa for not being accountable to the good people of Ghana, you’d do all of us a world of good to petition Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee for same to be addressed.
It is strange how you have allowed yourself to be cajoled by the bandwagon effects of the propaganda being bruited around by the NDC to also believe that Jean Mensa is being shielded.
It beggars belief that you seem to opine that Jean Mensa is running away or being shepherded somehow when you have failed to ask yourself the most pertinent question about this whole petition.
Is Mahama in the Supreme Court asking Jean Mensa to account anything to us? No! He is there claiming that she did not live up to expectations as far as the constitution is concerned. He is also saying that Jean Mensa padded some 5000 votes for Akufo-Addo but strangely enough, he hasn’t been able to prove this.
What you and Mr. Mahama have failed to realize is the fact that you don’t question a public officer or any other person for that matter in a vacuum. You come to the table with empty hands and expect to go home with your pockets filled with enormous amounts of goodies?
Mr. John Mahama, in case your prejudiced mindset has blindfolded you, has supplied no evidence to buttress his case in court. He has accused Jean Mensa of some infractions without adducing evidence. How do you expect the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission to respond to allegations which have no facts backing them?
Get this into your mind, Jean Mensa believes, and this is what those with legal backgrounds also believe, that there is nothing to answer to since Mr. Mahama supplied no hardcore evidence to support his case.
It is commonsensical and legally true that in such cases as we are bogged down with, the burden of proof is on the accuser and not the accused. Mr. Mahama is the accuser and he is solely responsible for proving that indeed he has a strong case. He has failed to prove same.
If I were you, I wouldn’t speak to matters whose technicalities cannot be grasped by my mind. Sir, even Homer nods!
In effect, Jean Mensa is not fleeing from defending her work and neither does she need to mount the witness box since no one has brought anything worth defending herself for.
P.K.Sarpong, Whispers from the Corridors of the Thinking Place.
Source: P.K.Sarpong, Whispers from the Corridors of the Thinking Place.
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Sometimes I wonder how these NDC people think. and I am also wondering how their lawyers including the so called almighty tsatsu are thinking. Do they think the Supreme court is a fact finding commission? From my layman point of view, the Supreme Court will be sitting their somewhere and anybody who thinks some foul play has been visited upon them would gather their facts and evidences and go to them and present the facts. it is based upon these facts and evidences that they would either agree with the aggrieved person and grant their reliefs or disagree and quash the case. how do you come to the Supreme Court with no facts and ask them to go do your job by fishing for facts to substantiate your case?? VERY VERY RIDICULOUS!!!!!!!! ...and the heck of it! when you are asked to present your figures upon which you are claiming the EC padded figures for Nana, you boldly tell the SC you don't have any figures but you are rather asking them to go and find those figures for you!!!!!! THE IMPUDENCE!!!!!. If I were in the Sc I would have jailed all them lawyers and petitioners for contempt of insulting the Apex Court in this manner!!!!!
Thank you Prof. A. Boateng
Jean Mensah is right not to testify or account to NDC. What Mahama lawyers are asking for is not accounting to Ghanaians but rather to NDC. If they want proper accountability for Ghanaians, then the appropriate forum is parliament (our representatives) where all constitutional bodies get their budgets approved and account to. Listen to me, this is a court case by one of the contestants and should not be generalise to cover all Ghanaians. It is limited to John Mahama and his NDC, period. Hence, Mahama has obligation to support his case and not rely on the defendant to support his case. If this happens, then any party who dislike EC will always go to court to find errors after each election to create mischief. Let us be truthfully here for once for the sake of our democracy.