Martin Amidu, Alfred Agbesi Woyome
The Supreme Court has adjourned to January 10, 2017 the case challenging the constitutionality of a single justice of the court determining matters involving the interpretation of the 1992 Constitution.
The court last week adjourned sine die the hearing of the application for review of the decision for businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome to be orally examined by Martin Amidu, former Attorney General and Minister for Justice.
According to Justice Sophia Akuffo, presiding over a three-member panel of judges, the attention of the court had been drawn to an application filed by David Kwadzo Ametefe seeking interpretation on (certain Articles of) the Constitution in relation to the judgement.
At the court yesterday, the clerk adjourned the case without any reason.
Woyome, through Ametefe, is seeking to discharge or reverse the ruling by Justice Anin-Yeboah which paved the way for Mr. Amidu to question him (Woyome) over the GH¢51.2 million judgement debt paid to him by the state.
Woyome was also seeking to stay proceedings at the court pending the determination of the instant action, a relief the court, presided over by Justice Anin Yeboah, granted last week.
In the latest action, Ametefe is 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.
Woyomes’s lawyer is also seeking a declaration that the ruling by Justice Anin Yeboah, sitting as a single judge of the Supreme Court, delivered on 16th November, 2016 in the case granting the opportunity to Mr. Amidu to execute the judgement in the case (Martin Alamisi Amidu vrs. the Attorney General & 2 others) in suit Number J7/10/2013, is inconsistent with the provision of the said articles of the Constitution.
Mr Ametefe, among other things, wants an order from the court setting aside the order of the judge granting the opportunity to Mr. Amidu to orally examine Woyome.
By Jeffrey De-Graft JohnsonÂ
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