E-Levy suit: Supreme Court orders AG to file Statement of case within 14 days.
The Supreme Court has given the Attorney General's Department 14 days to file their Statement of Case and respond to the lawsuit filed against the passage of the Electronic Transfer Transaction Levy (E-Levy).
The Supreme Court granted the AG department's motion for an extension of time to file their statement and reply to the suit.
After lawyers for Haruna Iddrisu, Mahama Ayariga, and Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa did not object, a single Supreme Court judge, Justice Clemence Jackson Honyenuga, granted the motion.
While moving the application, a Principal State Attorney representing the AG's Department stated that they rely entirely on their processes filed with the court.
Even though Godwin Tamakloe did not object to the application being granted, he told the court that they would not waive their right to respond.
After hearing from the parties, the court directed the AG to file their case statement and response within 14 days of today, Thursday, May 26.
The three NDC MPs were not present in court, according to EIB Network's Court Correspondent Murtala Inusah.
Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu and two colleagues filed an application in the Supreme Court on April 19 to prevent the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) from collecting the contentious E-levy, which began on May 1, 2022.
Mahama Ayariga of Tamale Central Constituency and Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa of North Tongue Constituency are the other two MPs.
On May 4, the Supreme Court dismissed an interlocutory injunction filed against the Electronic Transaction Transfer Levy's implementation (E-Levy).
In a unanimous ruling, the apex court panel of seven, presided over by Justice Nene Amegatcher, stated that if the E-Levy is injuncted, Ghanaians will face "greater hardship."
read also: A Nigerian attack killed a pregnant woman and two children.
According to police in Nigeria, gunmen killed at least 12 people in the south-eastern state of Anambra, including a pregnant woman and her four children.
The police have blamed rising violence in the region on Biafra separatists.
According to a community leader, the pregnant woman and her children were riding a motorcycle taxi home when they were ambushed by gunmen in the Orumba area.
On Sunday evening, several other people were killed in separate shootings. Police are investigating the incident.
On social media, the murders sparked outrage.
They happened just one day after the mutilated bodies of a local politician and his aide were discovered a week after they had been kidnapped.
The Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob), a banned separatist group advocating for a breakaway state in the region, is being blamed for the escalation of violence in south-eastern Nigeria.
The group has denied some of the attacks.
In other parts of Nigeria, security forces are dealing with armed groups that are carrying out murders and kidnappings.
Last Sunday, more than 30 people were reported killed or kidnapped in an attack in Borno state in the country's north-east.
Boko Haram and an IS-linked group are active in that region.
The widespread insecurity is a major source of concern ahead of the elections in February of next year.
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