Supreme Court vs. Sammy Awuku, can anybody confirm what I heard? Supreme Court Ruling on Supreme Court vs. Sammy Awuku_26 June 2013 “…We have considered the candid admission of Mr. Sammy Awuku’s utterances on Peace FM on the 25th day of June 2013 in reaction to the final warning of the Court with regard to improper reportage and the previous warnings of this court concerning contemptuous comments, utterance and attitudes towards this apex court of Ghana, issued just on the 24th day of June 2013. He has apologised and withdrawn the same before this court and has further undertaken to repeat the retraction by 6pm today. We have also considered with admiration the pleas put in on his behalf both in chambers and in open court by lead counsel for the parties on both sides of this case. We have however noted with great concern the steady decline of respect for the authority of the judiciary, the third arm of government of this country over the past years. It appears that the warnings of this court particularly that of the 24th day of June 2013 has not been taken seriously. It is quite apparent that the pompous show of private power in the pursuit of the right to engage in political organisation and activity by which the passions of the humble members of society are stirred up on deliberately false political propaganda is a recipe for chaos and conflict in this country. We have seen the Kenyan precedent in this context and much as we are concerned not to exercise our undoubted powers as a court of law with iron fist, we cannot allow the emergence of over mighty subjects in this country as he said on the 24th day of June 2013. However, in order to show that we mean well for this country with regard to the exercise of our awesome powers we have decided to stop short of invoking our powers of contempt and invoke in the alternative, our power to control the attendance of our proceedings as a public court by members of the public. We take judicial notice of the fact that Mr. Sammy Awuku has been attending the proceedings of this court in this ongoing case. We think that the exclusion of Mr. Sammy Awuku from attending the proceedings of this court for the rest of the duration of this case should suffice for a start in this direction. That is our ruling.”
Posted on: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 01:38:24 +0000
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