The Police are holding two motorbike-riding youth over their wild goose chase for pink sheets currently at the centre of the landmark electoral dispute at the Supreme Court.
In search of the ‘valued documents’ ironically, the motor riders whose identities were not immediately known, stormed the Commercial Court in Accra last Thursday evening, instead of the Supreme Court.
The suspects, who were now languishing in cells at the Ministries Police Station, dashed to the court after it was announced that KPMG, the accounting and auditing firm, had accepted to audit the pink sheets free of charge.
It was also not known who sent them on such a delicate mission.
When the young men turned up at the Commercial Court in search of the contentious pink sheets, they were received nicely by an official of the court.
Having put forth their weird request, the court official subdued his surprise and assured his unusual guests that he was going to fetch the keys so he could open the vault where the pinks sheets were being kept.
They waited and held their breath, but instead of returning with the pink sheets, their host came with policemen who whisked them away, ending their wild adventure.
The police were tight-lipped over details of the two adventurers and what informed their confidence to venture so close to the court on such an impossible mission.
The incident was the second weird episode to befall the election 2012 pink sheets.
National security personnel who turned up at the Supreme Court a fortnight ago seeking access to the documents so they could render a special protection to them made unsavoury headlines for the National Security Co-ordinator, Lt. Col. Larry Gbevlo-Lartey (rtd).
Members of the public became more alarmed when they learnt that it was the General Secretary of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) who had ordered the national security operatives to go and protect the pink sheets.
The Judicial Secretary, Justice Opoku Acheampong did not accept the offer of protection, stating that it was not needed.
There had been a marked police presence at the Supreme Court since then.
The hearing of the election petition resumes today at the Supreme Court where NDC lead counsel, Tsatsu Tsikata is cross-examining Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, the petitioners’ star witness.
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