Judges abandon courts over Ya-Na trial brouhaha

Court rooms have been left empty as judges refuse to sit for fear of their security, Joy News has learnt.

The Supreme Court, the Appeals Court, the High Court are all empty.

A legal practitioner, Mr Sampson Lardy Ayenini confirmed that judges were not sitting today to Joy News.

He said he and other lawyers went to the courts with their clients but were welcomed by empty court rooms.

The judges say any judge who feels secure can continue sitting.

Mr. Ayenini later told Adakabre Frimpong Manso on Dwaso Nsem on Adom FM that all lawyers and their clients have been directed to leave the court premises in their own interest.

“Most court rooms are becoming empty gradually and as I speak to you now, I have been in queue for over 15 minutes and I can’t find my way, this is unprecedented,” he said.

The action of the judges is believed not to be unrelated to an ongoing demonstration by the Northern Youth for Justice which says its members are seeking to pressurize the authorities to give the late Ya-Na Yakubu Andani II justice.

Meanwhile, youth from the Andani family have hit the streets of Accra demonstrating their dissatisfaction over last week’s court ruling. Asempa News’ Priscilla Ofosu reports that the demonstrators, numbering over a thousand, are heading towards the Parliament House to present their petition to the House, then to the Attorney General’s Department before finally presenting a copy to the NPP Headquarters in Accra.

Source: Myjoyonline.com/Adomonline.com