A Kumasi High Court has ordered the arrest of Mr Samuel Pyne, Chief Executive Officer of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA).
The order is to be effected through a Bench Warrant at the instance of the applicants through their Counsel, which was granted by His Lordship Justice Charles Kwesi Bentum.
The Kumasi Mayor is the fifth respondent in an application for contempt, but failed to appear before the court on November 7, 2024 even though Patrick Adu-Poku, Esq, Counsel for Sam Pyne, had informed him that the matter was scheduled for hearing on that day.
Counsel for the applicants, therefore, prayed at a sitting of the court last Friday for the issuance of a Bench Warrant to compel the fifth respondent to appear before the court because “his repetitive absence is indicative that he is taking the proceedings and the Honourable Court for granted”.
The order and issuance of the Bench Warrant follows the admission by Sam Pyne’s Counsel that “he did not know why he (Pyne) is not here,” even though he told him (lawyer) that he will join him later.
He was also absent when the case was called on November 7, 2024. He had been absent when the case was first called, making it a repeated offence. The case has since been adjourned to December 2, 2024 at 9 am.
