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BY: Emmanuel Ebo Hawkson
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The Supreme Court will sit on Monday , January 4, 2020 to hear an application challenging a decision of the Ho High Court to put an injunction on the gazetting of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) MP-elect for Hohoe, Mr John Peter Amewu.
A five - member panel of the apex court, presided over by Justice Yaw Appau, set the date today (Wednesday , December 30) after granting an application for abridgment of time filed by the Attorney-General (A-G).
Per the directives issued by the court, the interested parties must file their statement of case tomorrow (December 31) by 12 noon , while the A-G, if it wants to reply, must do so by the close of day tomorrow.
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The Attorney-General (A-G) has asked the Supreme Court to quash a decision by the Ho High Court to put an injunction on the gazetting of Member of Parliament-elect of Hohoe, Mr John Peter Amewu.
In an application invoking the supervisory jurisdiction of the apex court, the A-G contends that the Ho High Court had no jurisdiction to make that decision because the entire legal action leading to the decision was a nullity.
According to the A-G, the action before the Ho High Court, although couched as a Human rights action under Article 33 of the 1992 Constitution, was a clearly a parliamentary election petition, which could not be instituted under Article 33 of the 1992 Constitution.