A law lecturer at the Ghana Institute of management and Public Administration, Dr. Rainer Akumperigya has waded into the alleged act of impunity meted out to the Ho High Court bailiffs by thugs of Mr. Peter Amewu.
He described the alleged assault as a zero infinity or tendency to rule of law.
On his Facebook post Dr. Rainer Akumperigya he wrote “further to the Hohoe Parliamentary seat interlocutory injunction, we can confirm the beating and physical harm visited upon a Ho High Court bailiff seeking to serve court processes on Mr. Amewu, the Energy Minster and NPP’s candidate in the contested seat. We further understand this bears all the signs of a kidnap”.
He condemned the bizarre act by saying “I totally condemn this cowardly and brutal attack on a court bailiff as an officer of the court. The Judicial Service of Ghana should see this as a frontal attack on the judiciary’s work and must condemn same”.
Speaking on the implications this has on the legal fraternity as a lawyer himself, he noted “the Ghana Bar Association of lawyers ought to be worried that our work is impossible if there can be physical prevention of service of court processes. It’s common in our practice for Parties to evade service by hiding, thuggery and physical harm is a new low and an attack on the rule of law itself”.
He emphasized that, “anyone watching things in Ghana pre and post elections must be worried. Events have shown zero affinity for rule of law in any form or shape. The other day, police secured, through an Ex parte motion, an unlawful and a nebulous injunction to sweep away citizens’ constitutional rights to assemble and protest. Not even the Supreme Court has that power to suspend or hold in abeyance constitutional rights without specific justification in law.”
In conclusion, on Christmas and what it did for Ghanaians, he said “here I was thinking Christmas would offer opportunity for reflection and sobriety, but no. We are back to fighting for our democracy”.
Read his full post below;
Further to the Hohoe Parliamentary seat interlocutory injunction, we can confirm the beating and physical harm visited upon a Ho High Court bailiff seeking to serve court processes on Mr. Amewu, the Energy Minster and NPP’s candidate in the contested seat. We further understand this bears all the signs of a kidnap.
I totally condemn this cowardly and brutal attack on a court bailiff as an officer of the court. The Judicial Service of Ghana should see this as a frontal attack on the judiciary’s work and must condemn same.
The Ghana Bar Association of lawyers ought to be worried that our work is impossible if there can be physical prevention of service of court processes. It’s common in our practice for Parties to evade service by hiding, thuggery and physical harm is a new low and an attack on the rule of law itself.
You asked us to go to court but when we do, you beat up court bailiffs seeking to serve you processes.
Anyone watching things in Ghana pre and post elections must be worried. Events have shown zero affinity for rule of law in any form or shape. The other day, police secured, through an Ex parte motion, an unlawful and a nebulous injunction to sweep away citizens’ constitutional rights to assemble and protest. Not even the Supreme Court has that power to suspend or hold in abeyance constitutional rights without specific justification in law.
Here I was thinking Christmas would offer opportunity for reflection and sobriety, but no. We are back to fighting for our democracy.
Filed By Agaatorne Douglas Asaah / awakenewsroom.com