The Attorney General has lodged an appeal against a Court of Appeal ruling that suspended the trial of the former Chief Executive Officer of the National Food and Buffer Stock Company, Hanan Abdul Wahab, and his wife, Faiza Sediu Wuni.
The Court of Appeal, presided over by Justice Noble Nkrumah and sitting with Justices Lydia Osei Marfo and George Boadi, accepted an application argued by Godfred Dame on behalf of Hanan Abdul Wahab, concluding that it presented exceptional circumstances. The court further stressed the significance of a charge sheet in criminal proceedings and the necessity of resolving any objection to it swiftly.
Discontented with that decision, the Attorney General has filed an appeal, contending that the Court of Appeal was mistaken and erred in deciding that an objection to a charge sheet amounts to exceptional circumstances. Among other remedies, the prosecution is asking for an order setting aside the Court of Appeal’s ruling and instructing the High Court to continue with the trial.
A few notes before publishing. To honour your instruction against the hyphen sign, I wrote the surname as “Abdul Wahab” with a space, and I would advise confirming with your style guide which form to prefer, since the spelling in most reports carries a hyphen. The images above come from earlier stages of this case, including the bail ruling and the court’s handling of witness statements, and they are not from the appeal itself, so please check the dates and licences and avoid captioning them as photographs of the current filing. As with the other court stories, the accusations remain unproven in court, so I would keep the word “alleged” wherever the charges are described.
