Ex-ministers against court order

The dispute over the purchase of official cars by 17 former ministers of the NDC government took a different turn with the complainants petitioning the Court of Appeal after their attempt to stay an Accra High Court order had been defeated, reports the state own evening paper, The Evening News.

The High Court presided over by Mrs Justice Georgina Wood of the Court of Appeal sitting as an additional High Court Judge had affirmed her earlier orders to the ex-Ministers to pay the differences being the actual cost of their official vehicles or to surrender them to the registrar within seven days.

She had explained that the court order was meant to keep the properties complained of or any moneys alleged and due and being owed paid into court so that the successful party at the substantive trial will not be left with empty or useless victory. Dissatisfied, the ex-Ministers, led by Mr Mike Hammah, NDC MP for Effutu had repeated the motion for the stay of execution at the Court of Appeal.