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A five-member Supreme Court judge would rule Wednesday on Kennedy Agyapong’s request challenging the Supreme Court’s jurisdiction to hear a contempt case against him.
The Member of Parliament of Assin Central, on September 17, filed a request for the Supreme Court to stop the contempt proceedings against him by the Accra High Court, after allegedly describing Judge Amos Wuntah Wuni as’ stupid ‘.
He wants the Supreme Court to prohibit the High Court from hearing the contempt case and also vacate the summons to appear in court on the grounds that the particular court (12 Land Court) that summoned it did not have jurisdiction to do so . .
However, on Tuesday, the Court adjourned the matter until October 14 to allow the Attorney General’s Department to respond to the request made by the Member of Parliament.
It is alleged that Mr. Agyapong made statements deemed derogatory in a land dispute case involving Susan Bandoh and Christopher Akuetteh Kotei had sued him (Agyapong), Ibrahim Jaja, Nana Yaw Duodu alias Sledge and the Inspector General of Police.
While the case was pending, the Court’s attention was drawn to a television (NET2 TV) and radio (Oman FM) program allegedly broadcast on September 2 of this year, where the MP was said to have “scandalized and threatened” to court.
A court order, signed on September 9, by Judge Wuni, read: “I hereby quote the aforementioned Kennedy Ohene Agyapong for an order issued under my hand and seal to appear before the High Court (Land Court 12) on Monday September 14, 2020, at 1000 hours to prove the cause for which he should not be severely punished for contempt if the matters against him are proven to the satisfaction of the court. “
