Attorney General and Minister of Justice Godfred Yeboah Dame, has asked the Supreme Court to correct what he described as fundamental errors in an earlier ruling that sought to remove Justice Clemence Jackson Honyenuga as one of the trial judges hearing case involving former COCOBOD Chief Executive Officer Dr. Stephen Opuni and businessman Seidu Agongo.
The apex court had ruled a 3:2 majority decision that prohibited Justice Clemence Jackson Honyenuga, from continuing with the case of the Republic versus Stephen Kwabena Opuni, Seidu Agongo, and Agricult Ghana Limited.
But the AG at who filed to challenge the decision, on Monday October 11, 2021, argued that the ruling “contained fundamental errors that occasioned a miscarriage of justice, and therefore ought to be reviewed”.
In his statement of case filed at the Supreme Court registry on August 18 2021, Mr. Dame invited the Supreme Court review panel “to make a deep introspection into the soundness of the decision of the Court dated 28 July 2021 and correct the errors contained therein”.
He argued further that “The Court ought to be guided by the simple question whether the impugned decision, on account of the multiple legal flaws, leads to a miscarriage of justice in the case pending at the High Court” the AG’s statement of Case read.
The Supreme Court is expected to hear the case on Tuesday, October 12, 2021.
Meanwhile ,the Chief Justice Kwasi Anin-Yeboah is reported to have empaneled two new judges to join the Supreme Court’s ordinary bench for the hearing of the attorney general’s review application to overturn earlier ruling.
The state is praying the apex court to overturn its own earlier decision to remove one of its colleagues, Justice Clemence Jackson Honyenuga, from the Stephen Opuni-Seidu Agongo criminal case.
The two new judges, according to the Herald newspaper are Nene Abayaateye Ofoe Amegatcher and Prof Emmanuel Nii Ashie Kotey.
They are to join their five colleagues to hear arguments from state prosecutors and the defence teams of Dr. Opuni and businessman Agongo, to ascertain whether or not Justice Honyenuga had, indeed, been biased, as declared in the 3:2 majority decision of the ordinary bench some weeks ago.
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