Chief Justice defends expediated hearing of Dafeamekpor’s injunction application

The Chief Justice has defended her decision to grant the Attorney General’s request to expedite the hearing of a case filed by National Democratic Congress (NDC) MP, Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor against the approval of some ministerial nominees.

Now give or take another two, three days for service, … so the instruction was that, wait for a minimum of 25 days, if no process is filed, then serve hearing notice, so that the court will sit.

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In this particular case, as soon as the case was filed, the Attorney General filed his response, he filed his affidavit in position, so the case was ripe for hearing.

So could the court issue hearing notice for the case to be heard and the court was going to sit on the Wednesday

And so hearing notices were issued so that the applicant who filed the case himself, who should be interested in his case himself, will come to court, and all the two other respondents will also come to court

However, the Supreme Court concluded that the MP’s case lacked direct relevance to the nominees under consideration in Parliament, as it primarily pertained to reassigned Ministers.

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