A member of the Communication Team of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and presidential staffer, Beatrice Annan, has stated emphatically that the presidency did not leak copies of the petitions concerning the chief justice’s removal.
Speaking on Good Morning Ghana on Metro TV monitored by MyNewsGh, she said:
“Although I am at the Presidency, I haven’t seen a copy of the petition. I haven’t even cited any of the five petitions we are dealing with at the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee.”
She insisted that the petition was treated as highly confidential.
“If they say state secret, the petition was treated as if it was a state secret. Although the petition was received long ago, some as far back as February and March, none of us even saw the contents.”
According to Beatrice, the timing of the leak suggests it could not have originated from the Presidency.
“It is only curious that copies of the petitions, whether true or false, started flying around after the Chief Justice was given her copies. If there is any leakage, it certainly would not be from the Presidency.”
Pressed further, Beatrice affirmed:
“I work at the President’s Secretariat. It’s not possible for a leak to have come from us because of how it was treated. When the President received the petition, for weeks nobody even knew there was a petition.”
She added:
“Why would the President want to leak a petition he had for more than a month? It just doesn’t add up.”
Beatrice called for careful examination of the sequence of events:
“Maybe those copiously referring to the content of the petition should tell us where they got their copies, because if I, who speaks for government, have not seen it, then certainly it did not come from us.”
