A senior Law lecturer at the Ghana Institute
of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Ernest Kofi Abotsi has
served a word of caution to both NPP and NDC, in the way they handle the
matter of the reconstitution of the Supreme Court panel hearing the NDC
joinder application to NPP petition, challenging the outcome of the
December 7 polls.
Kofi Abotsi stated that if the court is to
investigate relationships of all the justices of the Supreme Court and
recuse them based on their affiliations, it is likely that there would
not be any justice left to sit on the NPP petition, challenging the
outcome of the December 7 & 8 polls, since all the justices may have
one form of interest or the other, as far as the case is concerned.
The
NPP at the hearing of the NDC application to join its petition
Thursday, raised objections with a member on the panel of justices
constituted to sit on its petition.
Although the NPP were
tight-lipped on the identity of the judge they want recused, information
gathered points to Justice William Atuguba, whose nephew, Dr. Raymond
Atuguba, was recently appointed by President Mahama as Executive
Secretary to the presidency.
The Senior Lecturer cautioned that
the path the NPP has taken could further drag the issue unnecessarily,
since there is likely to be counter applications filed by the NDC.
But
a member of NDC’s legal team, Abraham Amaliba speaking to Joy News
called on the Supreme Court to stamp its authority and not tolerate the
NPP’s calls for reconstitution of the panel of judges sitting on the
petition.
Mr. Amaliba said if the NPP further pushes their call
for the reconstitution, the NDC will equally raise similar issues with
the remainder of judges since they are aware of some of the judges who
are related to stalwarts of the NPP.
Souce: Joy Online
Friday, 11 January 2013
No judge may be left to sit on the NPP petition if...- Law Lecturer
