The Accra High Court has issued a bench warrant for the arrest of Kevin Ebo Taylor, a social media commentator.
The said warrant is for Taylor to appear before the court and show why he should not be imprisoned for contempt, reports Graphic Online’s Emmanuel Ebo Hawkson, who was in court on Thursday.
Justice Eric Kyei- Baffour, a Justice of the Court of Appeal, sitting as a High Court judge, issued the warrant Thursday [January 16, 2020] due to a video circulated by Taylor on Facebook.
Justice Kyei-Baffour issued the warrant before the cross examination of Eugene Baffour-Bonnie, one of the accused persons and a former Board Chairman of the National Communications Authority (NCA).
Taylor said in the video that Justice Kyei-Baffour was promoted to the Court of Appeal from the High Court because he was doing the bidding of the government in the trial of the five people accused of embezzling $4 million belonging to the National Communications Authority (NCA).
In his ruling Thursday, Justice Kyei-Baffour said the video by Taylor sought to incite people against him and the court.
He held that Taylor’s action was scandalous and an affront to the justice delivery system. “As a judge of impeccable integrity and outmost honesty, I find it necessary to invoke the powers vested in me under the constitution to proceed and cite him for contempt. ”I issue a warrant for him to be produced before the court to show cause why he should not be committed to prison,” Justice Kyei-Baffour ruled, Graphic Online’s Emmanuel Ebo Hawkson reported from the court.
The warrant was directed to the Ghana Police service and other security agencies to find Taylor who is said to be outside the country.
Source: graphic.com.gh
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Interesting! Now the ball is in the court of the Ghana Police to liaise with Interpol to get this freak arrested. When he was attacking people left right centre and impugning the hard won integrity of citizens of this country with ***barred word*** abandon, he got away with it because all you have do to get away with any crime in Ghana is to connect with either NPP or NDC. Now, it torched a Judge and bamm,ACTION. LET US ALL AS A PEOPLE DEPOLITISIZE CRIMINALITY.
Hmmmmm, our system is so rotten. come again sir! Why not go to interpol for them to search him for you. The truth always hurt...tell the American to bring him back lol. jooookers
THIS IS NOT A JUDGE IN ONE OWN CASE. NOBODY HAS MADE A CASE AGAINST THE JUDGE. HOW DO WE MAKE A CASE A AGAINST SOMEBODY OR A JUDGE? TO INSULT THE PERSON AND HIS INTEGRITY IN THE MEDIA FOR DOING HIS WORK? THE ACTION OF KEVIN IS ATTACKING THE JUDGE AND HIS COURT ON A CASE AT STAKE. THIS IS CLEAR CONTEMPT OF COURT AND THE COURT IN QUESTION MUST DEAL WITH IT. IN THE ELECTION PETITION DIDN'T THE SUPREME COURT PUNISH PEOPLE FOR DEREGATORY REMARKS AGAINST THE APEX COURT. WHO DEALT WITH THE CONTEMPT CASE. THE SAME SUPREME COURT. KEVIN MUST FACE THE LAW.
THIS GUY BELONGS TO NSAWAM PERIOD!
You can be the judge in a case involving yourself. This is the biggest conflict of interest case ever in this world. How can you same judge rule contempt in a case involving yourself? All you need to do is to sue the person and a different can charge him for contempt if he his found guilty of an offence. It's only under nana addo that a judge can act this way. He doesn't even have common sense that this is not done. Ghana police should go to america to arrest him for speaking the truth. Morons!
GOOD APPROACH BY ALL STANDARD. THERE IS NO DISCIPLINED IN THIS COUNTRY ANY ONE AT ALL CAN JUST WAKE UP AND SPEW ANY GARBAGE AND GO FREE. I THINK THIS IS THE TIME WE HAVE TO INJECT DISCIPLINE IN OUR SOCIETY.
Kevin should be very careful if he is truly living in the United States
Ah Mr. JUDGE??? How can you be a judge in your own cause??? This smacks of abuse of office!! If you feel offended, climb off your seat of office and SUE him!!!
Just because a judge is sitting on a case he should not be promoted? By the way the promotion is done by judicial service. You sit in America and malign people when they take you on you complain about human rights Ah yasua atra
IS THAT THE KIND OF JUSTICE SYSTEM WE HHAVE IN THIS COUNTRY CALLED GHANA? THAT IF I RAISE DEFAMATORY ISSUES AGAINST A PERSON, THEN BY VIRTUE OF THE FACT THAT THAT PERSON IS A JUDGE S/HE CAN JUST USE HER/HIS CONSTITUTIONAL POWERS TO CAUSE MY AREST TO HIS COURT WITHOUT REFERRING THE ISSUE (CASE) TO THE POLICE OR ANOTHER COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION? IF THIS IS HOW THINGS WILL WORK IN THIS COUNTRY THEN THE SYSTEM IS A FLAWED SYSTEM AND JUSTICE DELIVERY IS A MESS. I WISH PEOPLE COULD REFER TO SIMILAR ISSUE OF LORD HOFFMAN IN THE CASE OF AUGUSTO PINOCHET (FORMER HEAD OF STATE OF CHILE) AND AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL (AI) OF WHICH LORD HOFFMANN WAS THE UK CHAIRMAN FOR AI AND AT THE SAME TIME A JUDGE IN THE CASE. GHANA, WE MUST SIT UP BEFORE OUR RIGHTS ARE OVER TRAMPLED UPON.