{"id":645837,"date":"2019-06-26T10:48:13","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T10:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\t\t\n<p><strong>Freddie Blay leaving the Court Complex in Accra yesterday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a \u2018bizarre\u2019 turn of events, lawyers for the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) have taken issues with the National Chairman "},"modified":"2019-06-26T10:48:13","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T10:48:13","slug":"freddie-blay-buses-saga-chraj-in-bizzare-court-moves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/06\/26\/freddie-blay-buses-saga-chraj-in-bizzare-court-moves\/","title":{"rendered":"Freddie Blay Buses Saga: CHRAJ In \u2018Bizzare\u2019 Court Moves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Freddie Blay leaving the Court Complex in Accra yesterday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a \u2018bizarre\u2019 turn of events, lawyers for the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) have taken issues with the National Chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Freddie Blay, for responding to their contempt application although they have not officially served him.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers for the commission had proceeded to an<br \/>\nAccra High Court claiming Mr. Blay was avoiding them in their attempt to serve<br \/>\nhim.<\/p>\n<p>CHRAJ had filed a motion at the court to commit<br \/>\nMr. Blay for contempt after they claimed he failed to respond to several<br \/>\nrequests from the commission to provide it with information about the 275 buses<br \/>\nhe donated to his party\u2019s constituencies ahead of the NPP delegates\u2019 conference<br \/>\nin July 2018.<\/p>\n<p>They attached documents alleging that the NPP<br \/>\nchairman had received the motion but \u2018failed\u2019, \u2018refused\u2019 and or \u2018neglected\u2019 to<br \/>\noblige the commission with his comments as requested and subsequently urged the<br \/>\ncourt to hold Mr. Blay in contempt.<\/p>\n<p>However, the court, presided over by Justice<br \/>\nGeorge Koomson, urged the lawyers for CHRAJ for serving Mr. \u00a0Blay in his home, when it came to his notice that<br \/>\nthey had only tried serving him with the summons to appear before them at his<br \/>\nvarious offices.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blay<br \/>\nAction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although CHRAJ could not serve Mr. Blay as<br \/>\ndirected by the court, the NPP Chairman went ahead to obtain a copy of the<br \/>\napplication and subsequently filed an affidavit in opposition.<\/p>\n<p>However, this did not go down well with lawyers<br \/>\nfor CHRAJ who made abjection to it when the case was called yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CHRAJ<br \/>\nObjection<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Appearing before the court yesterday, Bede Tuuku,<br \/>\nwho represented the commission, told the court that he had two preliminary<br \/>\nobjections to the affidavit in opposition filed by lawyers for Mr. Blay led by<br \/>\nNana Obiri Boahen.<\/p>\n<p>The first objection was why Mr. Blay had filed<br \/>\naffidavit in opposition when he had not been served, and the second being Mr.<br \/>\nBlay\u2019s averment that it was his lawyers who applied for photocopies of the<br \/>\ncourt, as his application for copies has still not been met.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Judge\u2019s<br \/>\nIntervention<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The presiding judge, however, wondered how that<br \/>\ncould be a ground for a preliminary objection when they had earlier claimed<br \/>\nthat they were finding it difficult to serve him in person and creating the<br \/>\nimpression that the NPP Chairman was evading service.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Koomson told the lawyer to \u201cthank God\u201d<br \/>\nthat Mr. Blay has done his (lawyer\u2019s) work for him by filing an opposing<br \/>\naffidavit although he had not been served.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blay Affidavit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In his affidavit in opposition, Mr. Blay averred<br \/>\nthat he had not been served by any processes emanating from the court of CHRAJ<br \/>\nbut \u201cironically, the impression has been wrongly created in the minds of the<br \/>\nwhole world that I am running away from justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He averred that the application is \u201cincurably<br \/>\nflawed\u201d and \u201cprocedurally incompetent\u201d as there is no proper evidence \u201cdirectly<br \/>\nor remotely that I have been personally served with any processes from the<br \/>\napplicant\u2019s office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NPP Chairman added that he had not looked<br \/>\ndown upon CHRAJ neither had he disobeyed any directives, orders nor<br \/>\ninstructions of the commission<\/p>\n<p><strong>Final Judgment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the court has ordered both parties to<br \/>\nsimultaneously file their written submission in 14 days.<\/p>\n<p>The court will give its judgment on July 24 to determine whether or not Mr. Blay should be held for contempt.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BY Gibril Abdul 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