Nii Kpakpo Samoa Addo, the lawyer for the South Dayi Member of Parliament (MP) and plaintiff, Rockson-Nelson Etse Dafeamekpor, has discredited the account of a court docket bailiff who instructed the Supreme Court that the authorized crew for Defeamekpor did not obtain a course of from the court docket.
According to TV3’s court docket correspondent, Joseph Ackah Blay, the court docket bailiff who assumed the witness field below oath instructed the justices of the Supreme Court that Mr. Samoa Addo had instructed workers at his authorized workplace to not obtain the court docket paperwork being served on the plaintiff.
However, Samoa Addo, in an interview with Alfred Ocansey on 3FM’s Prime News, mentioned the bailiff lied to the Supreme Court, therefore his determination to launch CCTV footage from his workplace detailing how issues occurred.
“This bailiff called in the morning at exactly 10:50 am yesterday [March 26]. At that time, I was not in the office…so I sent him the number of Mr. Rockson and said, Call Mr. Rockson and serve him with whatever process you have. He received the message at 10:57 am, acknowledged and said received with thanks,” Samoa Addo defined.
“That was the last I heard from the said bailiff,” he mentioned, including that the bailiff got here to his workplace however he was not conscious that he was [being] filmed by the CCTV cameras.
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“I have released the CCTV recording of his entire period within our office, including the voice audio for you to listen to exactly the interaction between himself and my front desk staff.”
According to Samoa Addo, the interplay between the bailiff and the workers was easy, including that the bailiff put the court docket doc on a desk and left with out correct discover.
“My front desk people told him that they have seen my name on it, he should wait for me to come because I was not in the office at that particular time. Then he told them he was making a phone and then he was going to return…nobody had signed the process…he left the process there and never came back,” he defined.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court yesterday, March 27, dismissed the injunction utility filed by Dafeamekpor in opposition to Parliament’s approval of ministerial nominees by President Akufo-Addo.
In a unanimous determination, the apex court docket mentioned the injunction utility was frivolous and an abuse of the court docket course of.