Labianca Case: I Would Have ‘Insulted’ You If . . . - Kissi Agyebeng 'Lashed' for Disrespecting Court
Private Legal Practitioner, Lawyer Kwame Adofo says the Office of the Special Prosecutor has been over-tolerated for its discourteous attitude towards court for some time now.
He cautioned the office leader, Kissi Agyebeng to be mindful of his utterances or face his wrath.
“If not on radio, I would have insulted this man,” he said in an interview with NEAT FM’s morning show, 'Ghana Montie'.
Lawyer Kwame Adofo’s comment follows the Office of the Special Prosecutor’s rejection of the Accra High Court's judgment on Labianca case.
According to the OSP, the court erred in its reasoning that it had no power to make the determination it made on the matter.
It argued that it is mandated by the law that establishes it to carry out such an investigation.
“The Court concluded that the OSP is not a court of competent jurisdiction or a Commission of Enquiry to make adverse findings. The court also prohibited the OSP from further investigating Col. Damoah (Rtd) and Joseph Adu-Kyei in respect of the adverse findings. “The OSP rejects the decision of the court in its entirety. In arriving at the findings of the matter, the OSP did not constitute itself into a court or a Commission of Enquiry. The findings were based on investigations carried out by the OSP and the OSP is mandated by law to publish detected acts of corruption and its publication of the investigation report is in accordance with its statutory mandate,” the OSP wrote.
The OSP added, “... the decision of the court is extremely inimical to the fight against corruption and the administration of justice for a court to prohibit investigations”.
However, Lawyer Kwame Adofo has described the OSP comment to the court as “unfortunate” and “unacceptable”.
“What is this, you can’t tell the court its decision is inimical if you don’t agree with its decision. You don’t talk like that as an officer of the court. I will not speak like that against the court in the worst case.”
“Elsewhere, he would have been summoned,” Lawyer Kwame Adofo said.
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