[ 2016-01-27 ]

Sammy Crabbe’s suit against NPP suffers hold up
An Accra Human rights court hearing the suit
brought against the opposition New Patriotic Party
by its suspended second vice chairman Sammy Crabbe
has put the matter on hold following
misunderstanding over filing procedures.

Lawyers for the NPP led by Godfred Dame Wednesday
argued that the applicant failed to comply with
ACT 55 of the filing rules of the court, a
position the trial judge Justice Dennis Adjei
agreed with.

The Judge has therefore asked Mr. Crabbe and his
legal team to “put their house in order” and
come back to the court.

Mr. Crabbe is praying the court to quash the
decision by the NPP to suspend him.

“Since there is no written notice for the
Applicant’s removal from office, in consonance
with Article 10 (4) of the NPP Constitution, the
Disciplinary Committee lacked jurisdiction to have
recommended the Applicant’s suspension and the
National Executive Committee had no jurisdiction
to have affirmed the said decision to suspend the
Applicant let alone indefinitely.

“It is respectfully submitted therefore My Lord,
that on the basis of the grounds argued above, of
Lack of, or Excess of Jurisdiction, Procedural
Irregularity and breach of the rules of natural
justice it is submitted that the decision of the
National Disciplinary Committee dated 2nd
December, 2015 and endorsed by the National
Executive Committee on 10th December 2015 be
brought up to this court for purposes of having
same quashed,” portions of his writ to the court
stated.

Source - Starrfm

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