{"id":600667,"date":"2019-03-20T12:48:58","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T12:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"

Former dean of the Faculty of Law at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Ernest Kofi Abotsi <\/p>

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Commission of Inquiry into the Ayawaso West Wuogon electoral violence has said, it declined to hear the testimony of TV presenter\u00a0Paul Adom Otchere because he was not relevant to it.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Executive Secretary to the Commission Ernest Kofi\u00a0<\/i>Abotsi said on Joy News\u2019 PM Express Monday, Adom Otchere did not tick any of the boxes described as \u201cfactors of relevance\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Paul Adom Otchere, a Metro TV presenter, spent barely four minutes at Short Commission, the shortest for any of the more than 10 witnesses who appeared before it.<\/span><\/p>\n

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His claim to testify was with video clips of the electoral violence as captured by Metro TV crew. But he did not bring it along to the Commission.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Good Evening Ghana host appeared eager to deliver on constitutional matters arising from the by-election turned violent.<\/span><\/p>\n

There was no such opportunity.<\/span><\/p>\n

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With the Commission\u2019s work wrapped up, the Executive Secretary and legal practitioner Kofi Abotsi has clarified there was no intention to snub the TV presenter.<\/span><\/p>\n

To testify, a witness should have \u201ctaken part in the activity on the ground and therefore you have been implicated or involved in one shape or the other\u201d, he told <\/span>host<\/span><\/span> of PM Express Evans Mensah.<\/span><\/p>\n

Or the potential witness should be in a position of command or control or supervisory position related to the events of January <\/span>31,<\/span><\/span>\u00a0\u00a02019, he continued.<\/p>\n

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The legal practitioner said, if the potential witness did not satisfy these two, then he should be an expert.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Executive Secretary said \u201cone thing became clear\u201d to Commission, that Paul Adom Otchere did not fit in any of the three categories.<\/span><\/p>\n

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