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Mahama Ayariga, a Bawku MP, arrived in Accra on Tuesday afternoon at 12:50, beating the 13-hour threshold set by the judge.
The NDC MP had sought to badert his parliamentary privileges, which he said did not allow the state to sue him when he was on a parliamentary mission.
Judge Afia Serwaa Asare Botwe, not wishing to invoke the privilege of deputies, ordered the legislator to appear in court after his lawyers had declared to the court that he was involved in parliamentary proceedings.
Earlier, the MP stated that no court order had been served, which precluded him from honoring an invitation to appear.
Context
A high court in Accra asked lawyers for Bawku Central MP Mahama Ayariga to present the legislator in court.
The Special Prosecutor's Office is trying the parliamentarian for presumption of tax evasion and the purchase of certain ambulances.
However, Ayariga responded to the Special Prosecutor that he could not be present in court on Tuesday because he is a member of parliament and will sit in parliament.
"I can come to court another day when Parliament is not sitting," Ayariga wrote. Taking the floor, Ayariga did not appear in court when both cases were called on Tuesday morning.
However, Judge Afia Serwaa Asare Botwe, who chaired the meeting, asked the legislator to appear before the court to insist that "whatever you do, you come back today, so agree that you can all be present .
JoyNews' Joseph Ackah-Blay said the judge had asked the MP to appear in court by 1 pm The case is a criminal case and can not be heard without his presence, said the judge.
In the parliament
The central Bawku MP, who sat in Parliament at the time of the hearings, said that his lawyers had informed him of the situation.
Mahama Ayariga intends to take advantage of the opportunity to inform the judge of the privileges of the deputies.
Meanwhile, in Parliament, he asked the Speaker to decide whether a Member could be compelled to answer the charges in court while the House was sitting.
The President announced a 30-minute break to consult on this issue and come back with a decision.
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