Ken Kurankye: Supreme Court should have sent a written notification

Publisher of the Daily Searchlight newspaper, Ken Kurankye, has told Joy News although he will honour the Supreme Court’s invitation on Tuesday July 2, he would rather prefer if he was served a formal, written notification.

According to Mr. Korankye, a written notification would have given him a chance to prepare an appropriate defence before appearing before the panel of Judges hearing the election petition case.

“Unfortunately in this particular instance what you have is a verbal invitation and a reference to the front-page comment [on the Daily Searchlight]”, said Ken Kurankye.

He said as it stands now, he has been left groping in the dark on the defence to mount, but he was hopeful there would be "light at the end of the tunnel" on Tuesday.

Ken Kurankye and two others are wanted by the court for their contemptuous comments on the ongoing election petition hearing.

Steven Atubiga, Member of Government communications team and Kwaku Boahen, NDC Ashanti Regional Youth Organiser would also have to appear before the court on Tuesday.

However, Stephen Atubiga has rendered an apology from “the bottom of his heart” to the Justices of the Supreme Court via Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen in an attempt to purge himself of the contemptuous comment he made in respect of the ongoing petition.