Techiman South election: Court orders for inspection of EC’s pink sheets

The Wenchi High Court in the Bono Region has granted the Techiman South National Democratic Congress (NDC) 2020 parliamentary candidate, Christopher Baasongti Beyere, leave to inspect the Electoral Commission’s original documents for the 2020 general elections.

The judge has set Monday 19 April 2021 for all parties to be present for the exercise.

The judge ruled that only original copies of the documents will be inspected.

In addition, the court gave the Commission three days to properly file the documents for the inspection exercise to be done on the adjourned date.

Also, the Wenchi High Court has awarded a cost of GHC2,000 in favour of the petitioner Beyere after the EC failed to properly produce documents as earlier directed by the court.

Meanwhile, the court has also ordered the Electoral Commission’s Returning Officer for Techiman South, Nana Dwamena Frempah, to answer interrogatories filed by the petitioner.

Beyere had sued the MP for the area, Martin Adjei-Mensah Korsah, the Electoral Commission and the Clerk to Parliament over what he describes as false representation of the results from that constituency.

Reliefs

In his suit filed at the Wenchi High Court, he prayed the court to compel the EC to quash its decision of declaring Korsah of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) as the winner of the Techiman South parliamentary elections.

He also wants the Electoral Commission to be compelled to collate polling station results in the constituency in the presence of the representatives of the candidates as well as declare him the winner of the parliamentary poll.

Dauda Zul-Kiful

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