The minority in Parliament has served notice it will resist any attempt to remove MP for Kpandai Matthew Nyindam from the chamber following a judgment from the High Court in Tamale ordering rerun of Kpandai parliamentary election.
The minority has also slammed the judgment from the High Court describing as flawed and animal farm-like. Justice Emmanue Brew Plange in deciding on the petition filed by the NDC parliamentary candidate Daniel Nsala alleging massive irregularities during collation directed the EC to conduct fresh elections within 30 days.
“What kind of kangaroo judicial system are we having now in Ghana? The judiciary must know that their actions and indeed inactions to serve the interest of whoever their paymaster is, has the tendency of destroying our peaceful Republic,” Afenyo-Mrkin charged.
“The sad part of it is that the NDC candidate and his supporters were aware of the judgment before the day, to the extent that on the day of the said judgment the Regional Minister led a team of NDC party faithful into the courtroom anticipating the expected result,” he said.
The incumbent MP Matthew Nyindam however through his lawyers has filed an appeal and stay of execution. Addressing the media in parliament minority leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin insisted the incumbent MP remain at post until the appellate processes are exhausted warning any attempt to physically remove him from the chamber will be resisted.
The Effutu MP further described the judgment as shameful and a travesty of justice.
“We will not mince words. They can conspire to call us one by one for so-called contempt of court. We are criticising their shameful conduct. We are not afraid. We are ready to be in Nsawam for their so-called contempt. The world will see their disgraceful conduct,” He stated.
He argued Matthew Nyindam remains the legitimate representative of the people despite the court order for a full rerun.
“To the people of Kpandai: your Member of Parliament, Matthew Nyindam, remains the sitting Member of Parliament for the Kpandai Constituency. He remains a full Member of Parliament. No person, no institution, and certainly no flawed judicial order can suspend the mandate you freely and lawfully conferred upon him unless and until the appellate process, properly invoked and fully exhausted, runs its lawful course,”.
Afenyo-Markin accused Justice Emmanuel Bart-Plange Brew of the Tamale High Court of engaging in “judicial carpet-bombing” for ordering a complete rerun of the election in all 152 polling stations, far beyond the limited rerun in 41 polling stations originally sought by the petitioner.
The Minority Leader described the absence of a written judgment as unprecedented and reckless.
“This order, an order with massive political, legal, and democratic consequences, was pronounced without the court’s full judgment. There were no written reasons, no factual findings, no legal analysis — just a naked directive issued into the public domain,” he stated
