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The case involving four former board members of National Communications Authority (NCA) and a businessman has once again been sent to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

Lawyer for former Director General of NCA, William Mathew Tetteh-Tevie, has file"},"modified":"2019-07-06T16:23:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T16:23:37","slug":"nca-case-lands-in-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/06\/nca-case-lands-in-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"NCA Case Lands In Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The case involving four former board members of National Communications Authority (NCA) and a businessman has once again been sent to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

Lawyer for former Director General of NCA, William Mathew Tetteh-Tevie, has filed an application for Judicial Review challenging the order by the trial court that he should open his defence.<\/p>\n

The lawyer wants the highest court to quash the decision of Justice Eric Kyei Baffuor who ordered the accused persons to open their defence after he found that the prosecution had been able to establish a prima facie case against them.<\/p>\n

The application is the latest among a litany of motions filed before the trial court and the Court of Appeal challenging the decision of the judge to order them to open their defence.<\/p>\n

Trial <\/strong><\/p>\n

Former NCA board members \u2013 Eugene Baffoe-Bonnie, William Tetteh-Tevie, Alhaji Salifu Mimina Osman and Nana Owusu Ensaw as well businessman George Dereck Oppong \u2013 are before an Accra high court charged with causing financial loss to the state, among other charges, in the purchase of Pegasus equipment.<\/p>\n

The prosecution led by Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Yvonne Atakora-Obuobisa, closed it case on April 18, 2019, after calling six witnesses to prove its case.<\/p>\n

Applications<\/strong><\/p>\n

After the prosecution\u2019s case, the accused persons filed a submission of no case application insisting that the prosecution could not prove its case beyond reasonable doubt.<\/p>\n

The presiding judge, in his ruling, dismissed the applications and ordered the accused persons to open their defence on May 30, 2019.<\/p>\n

The five have since filed numerous appeals challenging the decision of the court to dismiss their submission of no case.<\/p>\n

They then filed for a stay of proceeding pending the determination of the appeal but all the applications were dismissed.<\/p>\n

They then went to the Court of Appeal seeking an order to stay the trial but those applications were equally dismissed and they were ordered to return to the trial court to open the defence.<\/p>\n

Lawyer for Baffoe-Bonnie then filed a fresh application praying the trial court to stay proceedings pending an appeal of its ruling on saying their earlier application in respect of the admission of his client\u2019s \u2018confession statement\u2019.<\/p>\n

The application was also dismissed and Justice Kyei Baffour expressly told the lawyers to stop \u201cprostituting with legal processes\u201d by filing the \u201cnumerous frivolous and vexatious\u201d applications.<\/p>\n

The judge then ordered Mr. Baffoe-Bonnie to open his defence but his lawyer stated that they are entitled to a seven-day automatic stay to exercise their \u2018rights\u2019.<\/p>\n

The court granted the request and subsequently called on Mathew Tetteh-Tevie to open his defence but his lawyer also told the court that he would need time to prepare his client.<\/p>\n

Justice Kyei Baffuor then ordered Mr. Tetteh-Tevie to prepare to open his defence on July 4, 2019, and further ordered the other accused persons to be prepared to open their defence in case Mr. Tetteh-Tevie failed to do so to avoid \u201canother needless adjournment.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is that order by the trial court that Mr. Tetteh-Tevie\u2019s lawyer is challenging at the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

Justice Kyei Baffour subsequently adjourned the matter to July 25 awaiting the outcome of the application at the Supreme Court which is slated for July 23.<\/p>\n

BY Gibril Abdul Razak<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The case involving four former board members of National Communications Authority (NCA) and a businessman has once again been sent to the Supreme Court. Lawyer for former Director General of NCA, William Mathew Tetteh-Tevie, has filed an application for Judicial Review challenging the order by the trial court that he should open his defence. 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