Martin Amidu, Alfred Agbesi Woyome
The Supreme Court yesterday adjourned until January 26, 2017 the hearing of the oral examination of businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome by Martin Amidu, former Attorney General and Minister for Justice, over the GH¢51.2m judgement debt paid to him (Woyome) by the state.
The court, presided over by sole judge Justice Kwasi Anin-Yeboah, held that it appeared there was a pending action before the court in respect of the case.
He said the court would await the outcome of the application on the case – the motion for review and interpretation of certain portions of the 1992 Constitution.
Earlier, Kenneth Awuku, lawyer for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) financier, said the court at its sitting on December 6, this year, adjourned proceedings because it (court) informed the defence team that an application had been filed in connection with the case.
He insisted that his client was not privy or party to the said application so filed.
Martin Alamisi Amidu (popularly called Citizen Vigilante), who represented himself in the hearing, indicated that at the previous hearing, there was a motion to stay proceedings based on which he also filed some processes objecting its competence.
It may be recalled that the court last month granted an application to stay proceedings filed by Mr Woyome
The court acceded to the request of the applicant “in the substantial interest of justice,” adding that the grant of the application would not occasion any injustice against the trial.
Mr Woyome, by the court ruling, temporarily managed to stop the much anticipated oral examination and to pave the way for two judges to take a second look at the ruling which cleared Mr. Amidu to grill him.
Subsequent to that was a fresh application filed by David Kwadzo Ametefe seeking a declaration that upon a true and proper interpretation of Articles 2 (1), 128, 130 and 134 of the 1992 Constitution, a single justice of the Supreme Court has no jurisdiction to determine matters involving the interpretation of the Constitution, among other claims.
By Jeffrey De-Graft Johnson
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