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Lawyer for the petitioner in the Lokomasama Paramount Chieftaincy election held in December 2009, senior barrister Yada Williams Esq., during his cross-examination of the Port Loko District Election Officer, Mr. Eya Piwa, exposed to the court over which Honourable Justice Nicholas Browne-Marke was presiding, a lot of election malpractices carried out by goodness knows who.
Mr. Williams who is representing Mohamed Bai Sama Kamara, the petitioner who won the first round of the election held in December, 2009, was able to draw the court's attention to voting irregularities.
What came out was that a total of sixteen Chiefdom Councillors who voted in the first round never voted in the second.
And through the endorsements of the tax receipts which presentation on voting day is a prerequisite for taking part, the learned barrister was able to prove that even though National Electoral Commission Officers ticked some voters names as having voted in the first and second rounds, only an endorsement instead of two was made at the back of those receipts.
Two Chiefdom Councillors whose names stood out were Osman Bangura who claimed in an earlier testament to the court that he was abducted by the petitioner's opponent's supporters and held captive until the end of the second round.
The matter will come up again on 17th February, for the three parties involved to make at most, thirty minutes addresses each. |
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