Cattle dealer dazes Court

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By:  Ivy Benson

MP for Bawku Central, Adamu Daramani Sakande

The Cattle dealer, who challenged the status of the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bawku Central, Adamu Daramani Sakande in the law-making body at the Supreme Court (SC), pulled a surprise yesterday on both the bench and the bar.
Sumaila Bielbiel, who was given the last chance at securing the services of a legal counsel on the last adjourned date, due to the technicalities of the SC procedures and rules, appeared in court without a lawyer.
“I have not got a lawyer. My Lords, I have already submitted my evidence to the court so I do not have anything to say again”, Bielbiel, who was expected to give his verbal evidence-in-chief in the case, told the court presided over by  Justice Date-Baah.
Other members of the panel include Justices Julius Ansah, Sophia Adinyira, Rose Owusu, Jones Dotse, Anin Yeboah, Paul Baffoe-Bonnie, Sule Gbadegbe and Vida Akoto-Bamfo.
Plaintiff’s action put the entire court room in silence, as counsel for the embattled MP, Mr. Yoni Kulendi, who was called upon to cross-examine the plaintiff, appeared stunned and confused in the process.
“I have been taken by surprise. I honestly need some time since I was not expecting things to go this way”, Mr. Kulendi explained, when he was asked to cross-examine Bielbiel, who was already seated in the witness box.
The court, therefore, adjourned hearing to March 2, this year, for continuation.
The plaintiff had in a suit citing the Attorney-General as a co-defendant, challenged the continuous stay in Parliament of the MP for Bawku Central, Adamu Daramani Sakande and seeking to bar the MP from staying in Parliament.
He is invoking the original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court to determine the constitutionality of the continuous presence of Adamu Daramani Sankande in Parliament as MP for Bawku Central.

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