Why the Court of Appeal is unable to rule on AG’s stay application

A newly constituted Court of Appeal panel that sat on an emergency basis Friday morning to hear the Attorney-General's application for a stay of execution in the Sedina Tamakloe Attionu case has failed to reach a decision, leaving the former MASLOC Chief Executive Officer behind bars as the courts head into a two-month vacation.

The court has now indicated it will seek a warrant from the Chief Justice to sit during the legal vacation, a move that could leave Ms Tamakloe Attionu at Nsawam Prison for weeks longer, despite her acquittal and discharge by a previous panel just a day earlier.

Hours later, the Attorney-General's office filed an urgent application for a stay of execution pending an appeal to the Supreme Court.