Court orders arrest of Interim ICU Chairman
Gilbert Boyefio
13/01/09
A bench warrant for the arrest of Gilbert Awinongya, Interim Management Committee Chairman of the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union of the Trades Union Congress, has been issued by an Accra Fast Track High Court presided over by Justice Edward Amoako Asante.
The bench warrant was as a result of the failure of Mr Awinongya to appear in court on Tuesday for a contempt of court case against him and two others, namely Solomon Kotei and Theophilus Tenkorang, all members of the IMC of the ICU.
The application for contempt of court was scheduled to be moved Tuesday. It was filed on January 7 by Napoleon Kpo, National Chairman of the ICU and A Y B Salifu against the three for disregarding the court by preparing to undertake a delegates’ conference from January 13 to 15 at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, and for which publications and nominations had been issued and received while a suit on the matter is still pending before the court. The applicants also pointed out that there was an interlocutory appeal on the injunction pending before the Appeal Court of justice.
They recalled that at the court’s sitting on July 11, 2008, lawyers for the defendants orally prayed the court to conduct a quadrennial delegates’ conference upon which the judge directed that they should bring an application to that effect for consideration. According to them, since then they (applicants) had not been served notice of any application by the defendants or their counsel for an order to prepare for the 8th quadrennial delegates conference.
The applicants held that the defendants had indeed ignored the directive of the court and wee bent on holding the 8th quadrennial delegates’ conference, having taken steps to convene meetings to discuss it, request for nominations and also convene same. To the applicants, the action amounted to contempt of court, once the suit was pending without a valid court order to do so.
“Their conduct seriously undermines the administration of justice of the court. We are advised by our counsel and verily believe same to be true that the defendants’ conduct has put the integrity of the court into public ridicule, odium and contempt,” they argued.
According to them, “the conduct of the defendants is calculated to bring the administration of justice and law into disregard or disrepute, since their conduct is willful in the sense that it is not accidental and unintentional.”
13/01/09
A bench warrant for the arrest of Gilbert Awinongya, Interim Management Committee Chairman of the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union of the Trades Union Congress, has been issued by an Accra Fast Track High Court presided over by Justice Edward Amoako Asante.
The bench warrant was as a result of the failure of Mr Awinongya to appear in court on Tuesday for a contempt of court case against him and two others, namely Solomon Kotei and Theophilus Tenkorang, all members of the IMC of the ICU.
The application for contempt of court was scheduled to be moved Tuesday. It was filed on January 7 by Napoleon Kpo, National Chairman of the ICU and A Y B Salifu against the three for disregarding the court by preparing to undertake a delegates’ conference from January 13 to 15 at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, and for which publications and nominations had been issued and received while a suit on the matter is still pending before the court. The applicants also pointed out that there was an interlocutory appeal on the injunction pending before the Appeal Court of justice.
They recalled that at the court’s sitting on July 11, 2008, lawyers for the defendants orally prayed the court to conduct a quadrennial delegates’ conference upon which the judge directed that they should bring an application to that effect for consideration. According to them, since then they (applicants) had not been served notice of any application by the defendants or their counsel for an order to prepare for the 8th quadrennial delegates conference.
The applicants held that the defendants had indeed ignored the directive of the court and wee bent on holding the 8th quadrennial delegates’ conference, having taken steps to convene meetings to discuss it, request for nominations and also convene same. To the applicants, the action amounted to contempt of court, once the suit was pending without a valid court order to do so.
“Their conduct seriously undermines the administration of justice of the court. We are advised by our counsel and verily believe same to be true that the defendants’ conduct has put the integrity of the court into public ridicule, odium and contempt,” they argued.
According to them, “the conduct of the defendants is calculated to bring the administration of justice and law into disregard or disrepute, since their conduct is willful in the sense that it is not accidental and unintentional.”
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