Private legal practitioner Bobby Banson has urged Ernest Kumi, the Member of Parliament for Akwatia, to voluntarily appear before the court to avoid further embarrassment following the issuance of a bench warrant for his arrest.
The warrant was issued after Kumi failed to comply with an interim injunction barring him from being sworn in as a legislator.
“As it stands now, I think that going forward at least on the next day to avoid further embarrassment because once the bench warrant has been issued it must be executed and so to avoid all of that he can just voluntarily appear before the court with his counsel and give his evidence of the processes that have been filed,” Banson stated on The Big Issue on Channel One TV on Saturday 22, 2025.
He emphasised that the conviction is already on the record and has not been set aside, with only the sentencing remaining.
Banson suggested that if Kumi appears before the court with the necessary documents, the judge may consider adjourning the sentencing until all applications have been filed.
“I want to think that the judge, if he is minded seeing the processes that have been filed because the conviction is already on the record, it has not been set aside yet what is left with is the sentencing.
“So if the judge will deal with the documents that are before him I want to expect that they will adjourn the sentencing till all the other applications have been filed,” Banson explained.
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