A-G asks Supreme Court to allow Amewu to be gazetted

The Attorney-General (A-G) has asked the Supreme Court to quash a decision by the Ho High Court to put an injunction on the gazetting of Member of Parliament-elect of Hohoe, Mr John Peter Amewu.

In an application invoking the supervisory jurisdiction of the apex court, the A-G contends that the Ho High Court had no jurisdiction to make that decision because the entire legal action leading to the decision was a nullity.

According to the A-G, the action before the Ho High Court, although couched as a Human rights action under Article 33 of the 1992 Constitution, was a clearly a parliamentary election petition, which could not be instituted under Article 33 of the 1992 Constitution.

“The entire proceedings at the High Court, Ho, together with the orders emanating from there is a nullity.

The High Court has no jurisdiction under article 33 of the Constitution to entertain a matter in the nature of a parliamentary election petition and to grant any reliefs(s) interim, interlocutory or final, available in any parliamentary election commended under article 99 and section 16 of the Representation of the People’s Law, 1992 (PNDC 284), the A-G argued,” the A-G argued in the application filed Tuesday, December 29, 2020.