MAYOR AGBLEZE AND OTHERS V. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL AND ELECTORAL COMMISSION AND THE REPUBLIC V. GLORIA AKUFFO AND OTHERS EX PARTE MAYOR AGBLEZE AND OTHERS

RULING

ADINYIRA (MRS), JSC

On 31^st October 2018, this Court heard an application for an order to commit for contempt of the Court four persons namely Gloria Afua Akuffo, who is the Attorney General, Jean Mensa, the Electoral Commissioner and her two Deputy Commissioners, Dr. Eric Asare Bosompem and Samuel Tettey; the 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd and 4^th Respondents respectively.

The Applicants in the contempt application are Mayor Agbleze, Destiny Awlimey and Jean- Claude Koku Amenyaoglo who had on the 12^th of September, 2018, issued a Writ No J1/28/ 2018 in the Supreme Court against the Attorney-General and the Electoral Commission as the 1^st and 2^nd Defendants respectively. In that suit the Plaintiffs are seeking inter alia a declaration that, upon a proper interpretation of Articles 4 (1) (5), (6) and (7) on the creation of new regions and Article 42 on the right to vote, all persons in the subject regions if they are not already registered are entitled to be registered and to vote in a referendum s…