5 Supreme Court Justices to determine Woyome’s fate on oral examination

A five-member panel of Supreme Court Justices will determine whether businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome should continue the oral examination or not.

The Deputy Attorney General and Minister of Justice has described an application by embattled Alfred Woyome to the Supreme Court seeking a stay of proceedings at the Supreme Court due to the Pendency of a case he has submitted to the African Court of People and Human Rights (ACoPHR) as an affront to the 1992 Constitution of the Republic of Ghana.

Lawyer for Mr. Woyome, Osafo Boaben argued that the Supreme Court ought to rule that all proceedings in Ghana should cease until the African Court For People and Human Rights has given its ruling in respect of the Application before them.

Kasapa FM’s Court Correspondent, Daakyehene Ofosu Agyeman reported that in the Deputy Attorney General, Godfred Yeboah Dame’s oral submissions before the Supreme Court to oppose the application, he submitted that the African Court of People and Human Rights cannot exercise jurisdiction over the Supreme Court of Ghana.

To that end, Lawyer Dame prayed the five-member Supreme Court panel presided over by Justice Jones Dotse to dismiss the Application and order the applicant to avail himself for his oral examination to continue.

The panel has subsequently set the 28th of November 2017 as the date for its ruling on the Application.