By Beatrice Oppong
The Supreme Court has directed the Registrar of the Court to submit a report on an alleged manhandling of a bailiff by the personal assistant of the MP for Assin North, James Gyakye Quayson, to the Chief Justice for investigation. This was after the Registrar of the Supreme Court, Matthew Antianye, informed the seven-member panel of Judges, that a bailiff who was to serve the MP with the writ to appear before the court over a pending interlocutory injunction to restrain him from performing his Parliamentary functions, was manhandled on his orders. Court officials have been unsuccessful at attempts to serve Mr. Quayson with the writ. The Registrar said two other separate attempts to serve the MP have all proved futile.
He said on the first attempt, the MP refused to see the bailiff after he introduced himself at his office reception.
Following that, the MP ordered his bodyguard to throw him out of his office. In the second instance, the application was sent through the High Court at Assin to be served on the MP but that too was unsuccessful.
The Court has adjourned the case to March 1, 2022.
