Court awards costs against Ho NPP Executive

Ho (Volta Region) - Justice Paul Gyaesayor, a High Court Judge at Ho, on Monday awarded 400,000 cedis costs against Van Seshie Torblu and eight others in a case in which the New Patriotic Party (NPP) executive at Ho Central Constituency and Seth Anyadi and another eight others as plaintiffs.

The costs were awarded against the defendants because of the late filing of their affidavit in opposition to a motion asking for an order of interlocutory injunction to restrain the defendants against holding themselves out as newly elected NPP Executive at the Constituency.

The case was adjourned to Thursday 26 June for hearing. On 12 April, a constituency delegates' conference elected a nine-member Executive under the chairmanship of Anyadi to replace the old executive headed by Torblu.

The election of Anyadi's group was nullified by the Regional Executive of the Party who alleged that the election was procedurally and constitutionally wrong.

It organised a new election on 31 May, which re-elected Torblu as chairman together with eight others despite of an attempt by the Anyadi faction to restrain the Regional Executive through a Court injunction from conducting the second election.