Akua Donkor
The
Supreme Court has thrown out an attempt by Akua Donkor to push a claim of
culpability against the President and his Vice in the wake of the Anas Aremeyaw
Anas exposé that captured massive rot in Ghana football which sent Kwasi
Nyantakyi packing out of office.
She
filed the suit in June 2018 seeking reliefs, including an order to direct
President Akufo-Addo and Vice-President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia to step down after
claiming in the application that the two topmost officers in the country were
involved in acts of corruption as captured in Anas’ piece on corruption in
Ghana football.
A
seven-member panel presided over by Justice Jones Victor Dotse dismissed the
writ of Akua Donkor who is the leader of Ghana Freedom Party (GFP), describing
the move as incompetent before slapping her with GH¢10,000 as cost.
According
to Akua Donkor, the President and his Vice should be directed to step down because
she claimed their names were mentioned by Kwasi Nyantakyi in the Anas videos.
She
had claimed that it was only when the President and his Vice stepped aside that
relevant investigative bodies could look into the allegations purportedly made
by Kwasi Nyankyi thoroughly without any hindrance.
Settlement Letter
Yesterday,
when the case was called, the judges announced that Akua Donkor wrote to the
Registry of the court to have the case withdrawn for out of court settlement.
However,
Sylvester Williams, a Chief State Attorney, told the court that there was
nothing to be settled for in the matter.
The
Chief State Attorney was then obliged by the court to move his application and
he vehemently opposed Akua Donkor’s move.
He
said the application by Akua Donkor, who was not present in court, lacked merit
and must not be countenanced by the court.
The
court subsequently dismissed Akua Donkor’s action and said it lacked merit.
Other justices on the panel included Anin Yeboah, Paul Baffoe-Bonnie, Sule Gbadegbe, Samuel Marfu-Sau, Nene Amergacher and Agnes Dodzie.
By Gibril Abdul Razak
