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Stop judges from injuncting MPs-elect – Cletus Avoka advises Chief Justice
Jan 7, 2021
The Member of Parliament for Zebilla, Cletus Avoka has urged the Chief Justice, Kwasi Anin-Yeboah, to direct high courts hearing various election petition cases to desist from granting injunctions against Members of Parliament-elect.
He said this in an interview on The Point of View on Citi TV in reaction to an injunction slapped on the MP-elect for Assin North, James Gyakye Quayson, by the High Court in Cape Coast.
“The courts are advised to allow the MPs elected to stay in Parliament till the cases are over. For how long can they not be represented in Parliament? I think it behoves on the Chief Justice to give a practice directive that as far as these cases are concerned, high court judges should restrain themselves from granting these injunctions and allow the MPs to stay in parliament until the final determination of the case,” Mr. Avoka said.
The Cape Coast High Court on Wednesday, January 6, 2021, granted an injunction restraining the Member of Parliament-elect for Assin North, Mr. Quayson, from being sworn-in into the 8th Parliament.
The injunction was granted in a case filed by one Michael Ankomah-Nimfa of Assin Bereku who claims Mr. Quayson holds dual citizenship of Ghana and Canada.
In the substantive case, Mr. Ankomah-Nimfa is seeking to annul the declaration of Mr. Quayson as the winner of the December 7 polls because of the dual citizenship claims.
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