Justice Clemence Honyenuga, yesterday, stunned his courtroom when he described the ex-COCOBOD Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Stephen Kwabena Opuni, as a man who is only hallucinating.
According to the trial judge, Dr Opuni is telling blatant lies calculated to cause public disaffection for him (trial judge), and must learn to speak the truth, adding that Dr Opuni is only looking for an opportunity to delay his trial.
Justice Honyenuga, who sounded rather angry, took on the application to have him vacate the case, saying “this motion is malicious and an attempts by first accused to catch public sympathy”, adding “it seems the first accused was hallucinating when I was speaking on the 2nd of December”.
“This motion is an attempt to delay this trial” and “the application is accordingly dismissed”.
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Justice Honyenuga Angrily Bursts Out At Opuni In Court ..Says He Is “Hallucinating”
December 17, 2021 Reading Time: 6 mins read
Justice Clemence Honyenuga, yesterday, stunned his courtroom when he described the ex-COCOBOD Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Stephen Kwabena Opuni, as a man who is only hallucinating.
According to the trial judge, Dr Opuni is telling blatant lies calculated to cause public disaffection for him (trial judge), and must learn to speak the truth, adding that Dr Opuni is only looking for an opportunity to delay his trial.
Justice Honyenuga, who sounded rather angry, took on the application to have him vacate the case, saying “this motion is malicious and an attempts by first accused to catch public sympathy”, adding “it seems the first accused was hallucinating when I was speaking on the 2nd of December”.
“This motion is an attempt to delay this trial” and “the application is accordingly dismissed”.
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This was after the Chief Justice Kwasi Anin Yeboah, rejected a petition from Dr Opuni for Justice Honyenuga to recuse himself, following what the ex-COCOBOD boss, said was about the judge’s “bias and hostile” conduct against him.
Chief Justice Anin Yeboah’s rejection of Dr Opuni’s petition, thus allowed Justice Honyenuga to sit over the application, asking him to recuse himself from the case, although a case decided by retired Justice Georgian Wood, was cited by Dr Opuni’s lawyers led by Samuel Codjoe that doing so frowns on natural justice, because it meant one was sitting on his own case.
After angrily throwing the application, Justice Honyenuga, further ordered Dr Opuni and the other accused persons, to file the witness statements of their witnesses. This is irrespective of the fact that the prosecution was at no point before or during trial ordered to file witness statements for its witnesses.
The witness statements must be filed together with any documents before January 10, 2022.
The court also indicated that cross-examination of the accused persons would not exceed two days.
But what is strange about Justice Honyenuga’s sitting on the case against him and dismissing it was that the same Chief Justice AninYeboah, had come under criticism over a case involving the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Assin North, Kennedy Agyapong, where a judge was asked to return to the case he had earlier been taken away from.
