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Motion to stop judge from hearing
Tsatsu’s bail application adjourned
Accra, July 3, Ghanadot/GNA - A motion on
notice which seeks to disqualify Mrs Justice Henrietta Abban,
a Court of Appeal judge, from hearing the bail application
filed by Tsatsu Tsikata was on Thursday adjourned to July
10.
This was after Mr. Gyimah Boadi, Registrar of the Fast Track
High
Court, announced to the packed court that the trial judge
who was to hear the motion was indisposed.
When lawyers asked who the trial judge was, it turned out to
be Mrs Justice Abban.
Mr Boadi explained that Mrs Abban was indisposed and was on
June 30 given two weeks excuse duty to resume on July 9.
Tsikata, who represented himself, stated that his motion was
a new one and wondered why it should be put before a judge
who was indisposed.
Tsikata, in the midst of other counsel who were in court in
solidarity with him, asked the Registrar who gave him the
instructions and what happened if the trial judge could not
recover on the date fixed.
He, however, declined to mention who instructed him.
Meanwhile, Mr Fui Tsikata, brother of Tsatsu, who spoke to
the press after the court processes questioned why the trial
Judge (Mrs. Abban) should be the judge assigned to hear the
motion.
He said the motion should have been put before “someone else
because Mrs Abban had shown so much bias”.
Mr Fui Tsikata said they had quoted the relevant portions of
the law which stated that the trial judge could not hear her
own case, adding that, Tsatsu had filed another petition to
the Chief Justice on the matter.
He further accused the Police of planting one Prosper
Tsikata to
infiltrate their ranks through to the Nsawam Medium Security
Prisons.
He admitted one of their cousins was known as Prosper
Tsikata but stressed that the fake one was going round
defrauding many people.
Mr Fui Tsikata stated that the said Prosper Tsikata had
visited Tsatsu at the Nsawam Prisons acting as a relative
although “he is not a relative”.
GNA
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