Gang Of 4 MPs’ Case Not A Political Issue- SC Tells Speaker

How the Supreme Court heard the Speaker’s objection to Justice Ernest Yao Gaewu and dismissed an application asking the court to vacate its ruling that held the Speaker’s declaration of four seats in Parliament vacant.

The Speaker of Parliament had asked the court to vacate its ruling that hold the Speaker’s declaration of four seats in Parliament vacant.

In a ruling Wednesday, a five-member panel of the court held that the Speaker’s application amounted to a “misinformation and misapprehension of the law.”

According to the court, the Speaker’s submission that the court had no jurisdiction in the matter was misconceived because the matter in question was clear case of constitutional interpretation.

“It is therefore misinformation and mis-apprehension of law for the applicant to represent that the Supreme Court has no jurisdiction to give interpretation on a provision of the constitution that has attracted two different meanings,” the court held.