Ken Kuranchie
Editor in Chief of the Daily Searchlight Newspaper, Ken Kuranchie has asked government to demonstrate its commitment to consolidating Ghana’s democracy by paying for the cost of audit of the pink sheets as directed by Supreme Court.
Accounting and auditing firm, KPMG has been asked to recount the pink sheets presented by the petitioners in the election petition case.
Mr. Kuranchie argued that since the election petition case is of national interest, the state should pay the cost.
“The Supreme Court order is an essential exercise to protect constitutionality and good governance in this nation and no impression should be created to dissuade people from going to the courts in future for similar redress due to the cost involved.”
In an interview with Citi News, he stressed that “the Supreme Court should avoid all impressions that the cost of justice would be beyond the means of the ordinary person or anybody similarly or allegedly similarly injured in future. If cost becomes an implication then people would naturally choose other means under similar circumstances in future.”
Mr. Kuranchie further recalled that the state spent in excess of GHC240 million on the 2012 elections which ended in disagreement therefore “if we could spend GHC 240 million on a flawed election, we must be prepared to pay a few thousands of Ghana cedis on the exercise to reform the electoral process.”
He added, “now we are being told by the petitioners that there were widespread irregularities across the country: the respondents including ironically the Electoral Commission which conducted the elections agree that there were widespread errors, mistakes and trans-positional errors.”
Similarly, a member of the legal team for the petitioners Yaw Buaben Asamoah pleaded with KPMG to do the counting for free.
According to him, giving the contract to KPMG was an added advantage to its corporate image.
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