Hawa Yakubu contests election results at
Supreme Court
Hawa Yakubu contests election results at
Supreme Court
Accra (Greater Accra) 11 January 2001
The Supreme Court will on Tuesday, January 16, determine whether or not to re-count the ballot papers of the Bawku Central Constituency in the December 7 parliamentary election.
This followed a motion of certiorari filed by Madam Hawa Yakubu, NPP Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency, praying the court to quash the Bolgatanga High Court's order for a re-count.
After the Electoral Commission (EC) had declared the results, Hajia Fati Seidu, NDC parliamentary candidate, filed a petition at the High Court challenging them.
When the case came up for hearing, Mr Justice Gilbert Mensah Quaye, the presiding judge, ordered the collation and re-count of the ballot papers in the presence of two agents each of the two political parties.
But at the High Court's sitting on Tuesday, Madam Yakubu's motion compelled its presiding judge, Mr Justice Quaye, to adjourn the case "sine die".
He explained that since the Supreme Court is more superior, he has no alternative than to adjourn the case indefinitely until he receives directives from the Supreme Court.
Mr Justice Quaye, however, ordered that the ballot boxes be kept at the offices of the EC under a 24-hour guard and surveillance by the Upper East Regional Police Command.
Mr Kwaku Baah is representing Hajia Seidu, a former Deputy Upper East Regional Minister, while Nana Akufo Addo is counsel for Madam Yakubu.
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Accra (Greater Accra) 11 January 2001
An Accra Circuit Tribunal Wednesday convicted a 58-year-old tourist from Austria to a year's prison term for having anal sex with a young man. Manfred Itzinger pleaded guilty to unnatural carnal knowledge.
Francis Obeng, 38, a driver, who was in the dock with Itzinger, pleaded not guilty to abetment of crime and was remanded in prison custody to reappear on January 19.
Police Inspector James K. Adu told the tribunal, chaired by Mrs Elizabeth Anderson Yebuah, that the complainant is a 26-year-old unemployed who feigned interest when the accused proposed having sex with him.
Inspector Adu said Itzinger then requested the complainant to accompany him to his house where they met Obeng who also convinced the complainant to agree to the proposal.
But the complainant suggested they rather meet at his house at Christian Village in Accra. He then hinted his friends at home who planned to take photographs when Itzinger arrived at the house and also to get him arrested.
According to the prosecutor, Itzinger bought some alcoholic beverage for the complainant to get him drunk and while in the room, stripped naked and also undressed the complainant.
Just as the convict was about to penetrate, the complainant made an unusual noise to attract his friends who entered the room, which was closed but not locked and quickly took some photographs, Inspector Adu said.
He said when Obeng had information about what happened, he gave the complainant 100,000 cedis and 50,000 cedis each to his two friends to forget the incident.
He said after collecting the money, the complainant and his friends printed the pictures and subsequently reported the matter to the Police. Itzinger and his host were arrested.
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