High Court halts swearing-in of Akwatia MP-elect Ernest Kumi

The Koforidua High Court in Eastern Region has issued an interim injunction blocking the swearing-in of Ernest Kumi because the Member of Parliament-elect for the Akwatia constituency.

The choice stems from ongoing authorized disputes surrounding the outcomes of the parliamentary elections.

Ernest Kumi, representing the New Patriotic Party (NPP), was declared the winner by the Electoral Commission (EC) three weeks in the past after securing 19,269 votes. His foremost contender, Henry Boakye-Yiadom of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), acquired 17,206 votes.

The declaration was made on the National Police Training School in Tesano, Accra, after a number of failed makes an attempt to finalise the leads to the Eastern Region.

The NDC’s parliamentary candidate, Henry Boakye-Yiadom, has filed a lawsuit towards the EC, Ernest Kumi, and the Clerk to Parliament.

In his go well with, he seeks an injunction to stop Mr Kumi from assuming workplace, alleging irregularities within the collation of outcomes.

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After listening to the case, the Koforidua High Court granted the interim injunction, prohibiting Ernest Kumi from being sworn in or recognised because the MP-elect. The court docket’s ruling states:

“The respondents, their representatives, agents, servants, and all privies are restrained from proceeding to call, admit, register, swear in, recognise, or gazette the 1st respondent (Ernest Kumi) as the elected Member of Parliament for the Akwatia constituency.”

Additionally, the court docket instructed Mr Kumi to chorus from presenting himself because the MP for Akwatia.