Supreme Court sets date to hear case against Peter Amewu's injunction

The Supreme Court has set Monday, January 4, 2021, to hear the State’s suit challenging the injunction order against the swearing-in of John Peter Amewu as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hohoe.

The Supreme Court made the decision on Wednesday, December 30.

The State yesterday filed a case at the Supreme Court contesting the order of the Ho High Court that granted an injunction against the swearing-in of John Peter Amewu as the Member of Parliament for the Hohoe Constituency.

The State consequently wants the decision of the Ho High Court to be quashed and also the court stopped from hearing the substantive case brought against Mr. Amewu and the Electoral Commission.

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This was after the State through a Deputy Attorney General, Godfred Yeboa-Dame, filed a motion today, Wednesday, December 30, 2020, for an abridgement of time for the expeditious handling of the case.

“The High Court has no jurisdiction under article 33 of the Constitution to entertain a matter in the nature of a parliamentary election petition and to grant any reliefs(s) interim, interlocutory or final, available in an parliamentary election commended under article 99 and section 16 of the Representation of the People’s Law, 1992 (PNDC 284).”

“The proceedings of the court below and the orders emanating therefrom dated 23rd December, 2020 were void as same were in violation of article 99 of the Constitution,” The plaintiff noted in their application

The court granted the request and ordered both the state and the interested parties represented by Tsatsu Tsikata to file their statement of claim by December 31 for the case to be heard on January 4, 2021.