General News of Monday, 8 February 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comYou are not permitted to run irrelevant commentaries - Akoto Ampaw to Rojo Mettle-NunooLawyer Akoto Ampaw is counsel for President Akufo-AddoLawyer for the first respondent in the ongoing Election Petition hearing at the Supreme Court, Akoto Ampaw, has indicated to Rojo Mettle-Nunoo, the third witness for the petitioner, that he has no permission to run irrelevant commentaries. Akoto Ampaw said this to the witness after a cross-examination between the lawyer for the second respondent in the case, the Electoral Commission’s Justin Amenuvor, and the third witness was littered with a lot of verbal clashes and interjections from the Justices of the Supreme Court. Tsikata, please, can you let your witness be very, very, very specific of these simple issues – very very simple issues. Mr. Tsikata, representing John Dramani Mahama, the petitioner in the case, then responded, “My Lord, I do not wish to interfere with the answers of the witness. If I answer a question with your initial statement, and I need to throw more light on that answer, am I not permitted to do so?”“You are not permitted to run irrelevant commentaries, that I am trying to tell you,” Akoto Ampaw retorted.

Source: GhanaWeb February 08, 2021 12:00 UTC