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Election Petition: Supreme Court discharges Dr. Ayine of contempt charge

February 25, 2021 2:13 PM

The Supreme Court of Ghana on Thursday, February 25, 2021, discharged former deputy Attorney General Dr. Dominic Ayine over the contempt charge.

Dr Dominic Ayine with some colleague lawyers

This was after the court met on Thursday to weigh his execution of its directive to purge himself of contempt.

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Dr Ayine was hauled before the apex court on Monday, February 22, for scandalizing it in a post-election petition court hearing address to the media on February 17.

The court while deciding against slapping him with punitive sanctions, ordered the contemnor to purge himself by apologizing and retracting his comments through the same medium.

Dr Ayine has since his discharged on Monday, apologized to the bench, the entire judicial service through the same medium he made those scandalous comments.

“I have looked at what I said that day and I have come to the conclusion that I went overboard. I crossed the lines with respect to the remarks that I made in terms of attributing impropriety to the Supreme Court of the Republic of Ghana.

“This morning, I delivered a letter to His Lordship the Chief Justice, offering an unqualified apology to the court,” the lawmaker said.