Hohoe: Amewu supporters clash with NDC, many injured

Aggrieved supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) have clashed with a certain youth group believed to be supporters of the MP-elect Peter Amewu in Hohoe in the Volta Region. 

Thepublisheronline.com understands the situation left the security men [soldiers and police] stranded, finding it difficult to control the two groups.

The NDC protesters who started their protest march from Atabu as part of the party’s nationwide resistance protest against the Electoral Commission were halted along the route by the armed-group who prevented them from moving further into the main Hohoe township.

Meanwhile the Supreme Court is on Monday, January 4, 2021, set to hear the State’s suit challenging the order of the Ho High Court granting an injunction against the swearing-in of John Peter Amewu as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hohoe.

This was after the State through a Deputy Attorney General, Godfred Yeboa-Dame, filed a motion today, Wednesday, December 30, 2020, for an abridgement of time for the expeditious handling of the case.

The court granted the request and ordered both the state and the interested parties represented by Tsatsu Tsikata to file their statement of claim by December 31 for the case to be heard on January 4, 2021.

In the suit, the State said the ruling from the court “constituted a patent error” since it did not have the capacity to hear the matter.

“The High Court has no jurisdiction under article 33 of the Constitution to entertain a matter in the nature of a parliamentary election petition and to grant any reliefs(s) interim, interlocutory or final, available in a parliamentary election commended under article 99 and section 16 of the Representation of the People’s Law, 1992 (PNDC 284).”

“The proceedings of the court below and the orders emanating therefrom dated 23rd December 2020 were void as same were in violation of article 99 of the Constitution,” The plaintiff noted in their application.