Counsel for Alfred Agbesi Woyome, Mr David Annan, has filed a contempt suit seeking the Accra High Court to commit five officials of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for willfully and gleefully interfering with the administration of justice and scandalising the court in the case involving his client.
The respondents are Mr Kennedy Agyapong, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin North; Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, the Minority Leader in Parliament and MP for Suame; Nana Akomea, the MP for Okaikoi South and Director of Communications of the NPP; Mr Samuel Awuku, a Deputy Director of Communications, and Mr Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey, the National Chairman of the NPP.
Also joined in the suit are Mr Rockson Adofo and Mr Kofi Akosah Sarpong for writing contemptuous articles about the case in which Woyome is standing trial for the payment of GH�51.2 million judgement debt to him.
The Proprietor/Director of Peace FM online, Mr Osei Kwame Despite; Nana Kwadwo Asante, the Online Editor of Peace FM online, and Mr Kwesi Twum, the Chief Executive Officer of Multimedia Limited, have also been added to the suit for offering their media to the respondents to make the alleged contemptuous statements.
The suit is scheduled to be heard on April 5, 2012.
A writ dated March 9, 2012 and filed by Mr Annan said the respondents had, over a long period of time, made constant pernicious statements and pronounced the accused and defendant in the criminal and civil matters which were pending before the court as a criminal, a thief, corrupt and fraudulent.
�That by pronouncing on the ultimate verdict and other matters subject to the jurisdiction and determination of the High Court, the respondents have prejudged the matters in contention and matters in dispute before courts of competent jurisdiction,� it said.
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