Member of Parliament (MP) for Ningo-Prampram Constituency, Sam George, has been denied the opportunity to screen a video before the Emile Short Commission.
Mr. George, who appeared before the commission on Monday, February 25, 2019, to give testimony on the violence that erupted during the Ayawaso West Wuogon Constituency by-election on January 31, 2019, wanted to back his presentations with video scenes from the violence, but was asked by the Commission to let the owners of the videos to tender them in person before the Commission.
After initially giving his evidence verbally, he made appeals to the commission to allow him screen a video he had brought with him to support his case but was denied by the commission.
“I am requesting humbly that I be allowed to walk through the sequences,” he said whilst making demands for him to show the video.
But the more he pleaded, the more he was ignored by the commission, almost as if to say the commissioners could not hear what he was saying or they were not interested in it at all.
He however, told the commission that the claim he made during the shooting incident that a man has been killed in his own house was based on assumption.
“This is so wrong, this is so wrong. You killed a man in his own house,” Sam George was heard saying in a video from the violent election.
But he argued before the commission that due to the state of the man who was allegedly being assaulted, he presumed that he had been murdered.
The lawyer for the commission then told him that since the man in question did not actually die, his (George’s) comment was unfortunate.
But his counsel quickly objected to that, saying the commission’s lawyer’s comment was “prejudicial”.
