Private legal practitioner Bobby Banson has urged Ernest Kumi, the Member of Parliament for Akwatia, to voluntarily present himself before the court to avoid further embarrassment following a bench warrant issued for his arrest.
The warrant was issued after Kumi failed to comply with an interim injunction preventing him from being sworn in as a legislator.
“As it stands now, I think that going forward at least on the next day to avoid further embarrassment because once the bench warrant has been issued it must be executed and so to avoid all of that he can just voluntarily appear before the court with his counsel and give his evidence of the processes that have been filed,” Banson said on Channel One TV on Saturday, February 22, 2025.
He emphasized that Kumi’s conviction remains on record and has not been set aside, with only sentencing pending.
Banson suggested that if Kumi presents the necessary documents before the court, the judge may consider postponing sentencing until all applications have been filed.
“I want to think that the judge, if he is minded seeing the processes that have been filed because the conviction is already on the record, it has not been set aside yet what is left with is the sentencing.
“So if the judge will deal with the documents that are before him I want to expect that they will adjourn the sentencing till all the other applications have been filed,” Banson explained.