Kennedy Agyapong’s Contempt Case Adjourned

Kennedy Agyapong’s Contempt Case Adjourned
Hon. Kennedy Agyapong

High Court Judge, Justice Amos Wuntah Wuni of the Land Court division has adjourned the contempt proceedings against the Assin Central Member of Parliament, Kennedy Agyapong.

The case was adjourned to Friday, October 25, to allow the legislators lawyers respond to the charges against him and to further deliberate on questions of jurisdiction and procedure for the case.

This comes on the back of objections Mr. Agyapong’s lawyers raised against the court hearing today based on an invocation at the Supreme Court yesterday.

“In the circumstance, we are praying for an adjournment so we could pursue the matter, which is now pending before the highest appellate court of the land. We believe that by the time the Supreme Court delivers its ruling, we may not even have to return to this Court.”

The lawyers are seeking the Supreme Court to exercise its Supervisory Jurisdiction over the High Court and quash the High Court’s attempt to try and punish Kennedy Agyapong.

Justice Wuni conceded knowledge of the process filed against his court on the matter.

“I have sighted the application filed in the Supreme Court by the respondent in this contempt case”.

He, however, maintained that he could go ahead and hear the case until the Supreme Court directed otherwise.

The insistence of Mr. Agyapong’s lawyers, however, swayed the Judge into adjourning the matter.

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Background

The Assin Central MP was summoned by the Judge, Amos Wuntah Wuni, after he was seen in a video uttering unsavory comments about the judge over a land case still before the court.

In a summon addressed to the MP, the judge asked the MP to show: “cause why he should not be severely punished for contempt if the matters are proven against him to the satisfaction of the Court.”

A group calling itself the Progressive Intellectuals, prior to the hearing called on the judiciary to punish the Assin Central MP Kennedy Agyapong as it was done in the case of ‘Montie 3’.

According to the group, the apology from the lawmaker does not atone for his televised attack on a judge.