{"id":655399,"date":"2019-07-12T19:03:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T19:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\t\t\n<p><strong>Martin Amidu<\/strong><br\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Supreme Court has indefinitely\nadjourned proceedings in the suit challenging the appointment of Martin A.B.K.\nAmidu as Special Prosecutor by President Akufo-Addo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is to allow"},"modified":"2019-07-12T19:03:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T19:03:27","slug":"amidu-age-case-adjourned-indefinitely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/12\/amidu-age-case-adjourned-indefinitely\/","title":{"rendered":"Amidu Age Case Adjourned Indefinitely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Martin Amidu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court has indefinitely<br \/>\nadjourned proceedings in the suit challenging the appointment of Martin A.B.K.<br \/>\nAmidu as Special Prosecutor by President Akufo-Addo. <\/p>\n<p>This is to allow the Chief Justice,<br \/>\nJustice Sophia Akuffo to reconstitute the seven-member panel hearing the<br \/>\nmatter.<\/p>\n<p>The reconstitution of the<br \/>\npanel was occasioned by the impending compulsory retirement of one of the panel<br \/>\nmembers, Justice Sophia Adinyira which is due on July 31 this year. <\/p>\n<p>The panel has indicated that<br \/>\nthey may not be able to see the case to its logical conclusion before their<br \/>\ncolleague judge proceeds on her retirement hence the need for the panel to be<br \/>\nreconstituted. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Order <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The court at its last sitting<br \/>\nhad ordered the Office of the Attorney General and NDC Member of Parliament<br \/>\n(MP) for Bolgatanga, Dr. Dominic Ayine, who is challenging Mr. Amidu\u2019s<br \/>\nappointment based on age, to file further legal arguments within three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The order of the court<br \/>\nfollowed the filling of the memorandum of issues by both parties in the case as<br \/>\ndirected by the court in February this year. <\/p>\n<p>Tony Lithur, who is counsel<br \/>\nfor Dr. Ayine, told the court that he had met the Deputy Attorney General<br \/>\nGodfred Yeboah Dame and they had agreed on the issues to consider and had<br \/>\nsubsequently filed the memorandum of issues.<\/p>\n<p>He, therefore, asked the court<br \/>\nfor directions on the way forward.<\/p>\n<p>The seven-member panel of the<br \/>\ncourt presided over by Justice Julius Ansah, with Justices Sophia Adinyira,<br \/>\nAnin Yeboah, Baffoe-Bonnie, Sulemana Gbadegbe, Samuel Marful Siau and Agnes<br \/>\nDordzie, as members directed the parties to file legal arguments in three<br \/>\nweeks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Case<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ayine filed a suit at the<br \/>\nSupreme Court challenging Mr. Amidu\u2019s age to be appointed as Ghana\u2019s first Special<br \/>\nProsecutor.<\/p>\n<p>The NDC MP, who was the Deputy<br \/>\nAttorney General under the previous Mahama administration, is seeking a relief,<br \/>\nincluding \u201ca declaration that by a true and proper interpretation of Articles<br \/>\n190 (1) (d), 199 (1) (4) and 295 of the 1992 Constitution, the required age of<br \/>\nall holders of public offices created pursuant to Article 190 (1) (d), is 60<br \/>\nyears, anyhow not beyond 65 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Attorney General\u2019s Office,<br \/>\nin its response to the suit, prayed the Supreme Court to dismiss the suit,<br \/>\nsaying the suit is being \u201cborne out of narrow, inadequate and literal<br \/>\nconstruction of the scope of the application of Article 199 of the<br \/>\nConstitution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He averred that Mr. Amidu is<br \/>\nnot \u201ca proper party to the suit\u201d as the action seeks to challenge the Attorney<br \/>\nGeneral\u2019s decision to nominate Mr. Amidu as the Special Prosecutor, as well as<br \/>\nhis presentation by the President for Parliament to approve.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that the decision to<br \/>\nappoint Mr. Amidu was taken in the course of the official duties of the<br \/>\nPresident and AG and Mr. Amidu can therefore not be a party to the suit.<\/p>\n<p>He prayed the court to dismiss the suit and the court agreed with the Deputy AG and subsequently struck out the name of Mr. Amidu as defendant in the suit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BY Gibril Abdul Razak<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Amidu The Supreme Court has indefinitely adjourned proceedings in the suit challenging the appointment of Martin A.B.K. Amidu as Special Prosecutor by President Akufo-Addo. This is to allow the Chief Justice, Justice Sophia Akuffo to reconstitute the seven-member panel hearing the matter. The reconstitution of the panel was occasioned by the impending compulsory retirement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":655400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Amidu Age Case Adjourned Indefinitely - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/12\/amidu-age-case-adjourned-indefinitely\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Amidu Age Case Adjourned Indefinitely - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Martin Amidu The Supreme Court has indefinitely adjourned proceedings in the suit challenging the appointment of Martin A.B.K. 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