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I didn’t instruct my officer to reject Supreme Court documents – Dafeamekpor’s lawyer

I didn’t instruct my officer to reject Supreme Court documents – Dafeamekpor’s lawyer

Nii Kpappo Addo, lawyer for Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor, the South Dayi Member of Parliament (MP), has denied allegations that he directed a staff in his office to decline documents from the Supreme Court regarding the case against approval of President Nana Akufo-Addo’s new ministerial nominees.

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In court, it was disclosed that the South Dayi MP’s attorney did not receive certain court documents, including the notice of hearing and the Attorney General’s opposition to a temporary court order.

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The bailiff claimed that he was forced to leave with the notice of hearing and the Attorney General’s opposition to the temporary court order after the staff member of the South Dayi MP’s attorney informed him of the directive.

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We are supposed to be served with a hearing notice on the date that has been called by the court.

So, I received a call from the bailiff of the court that he had a process for me.

So, I informed him that I wasn’t around, but I was going to give him the number of the plaintiff so that he could serve the plaintiff with the hearing notice or whatever document that he had!

“I was therefore very surprised to hear on Wednesday that this bailiff alleged that he walked into my office, and I had left an instruction that no process was to be received…Perhaps he didn’t know

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