Physician and political activist, Dr. Arthur Kennedy, has expressed worry over the Supreme Court’s stay of execution order on the four parliamentary seats declared vacant.
The application to stay the Speaker’s decision was filed by New Patriotic Party (NPP) Members of Parliament (MPs).
Led by Majority Leader and Effutu MP, they sought the Court’s intervention to halt the enforcement of the ruling that would have affected three of their colleagues and one from the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
The application was filed ex parte, meaning that neither Speaker Bagbin nor Parliament was joined to the case.
This allowed the Court to consider the NPP MPs’ request without requiring the participation or response of the Speaker or other parliamentary authorities at this stage.
But Dr Arthur said the Apex Court was wrong in not hearing from the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin’s lawyers or parliament at large.
The Political activist said this in an interview on Adom FM’s morning show Dwaso Nsem, on Monday.
He asserted that, the Supreme Court in recent times has been involved in politics and accommodating to President Akufo-Addo and the New Patriotic Party(NPP).
“Everyone knows that with the time left, a by election wasn’t possible so it means that if the ruling of the Speaker had been enforced, it would altered Parliament but there were the Supreme Court could have handled the issue out of respect.
“The court is dealing with parliament and not an individual so they could have scheduled a hearing for Monday for the lawyers of both parties to make their case,” he said.
The case was heard by a panel of Supreme Court justices presided over by Chief Justice Gertrude Torkonoo.
Other members of the panel included Justice Mariama Owusu, Justice Kwame Adibu Asiedu, Justice Ernest Yao Gaewu, and Justice Yaw Darko Asare, who together delivered the ruling to stay the Speaker’s decision.
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