'Number 12': Ace Investigative Journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas to Testify Without Mask - Supreme Court Orders | Football/Soccer

The Supreme Court has rejected an Accra High Court order for investigative Journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, to testify in-camera towards Former Ghana Football Association (GFA) President, Kwesi Nyantakyi for his documentary dubbed 'Number 12' which was premiered on sixth June 2018 .

According to the ruling, the ace investigative Journalist has to seem in courtroom with out his commerce mark masks.

In March 2022, throughout Case Management Conference, the High Court 2, Criminal Division presided over by her ladyship Elfreda Dankyi peremptorily granted an ORAL utility by the prosecution for Anas Aremeyaw Anas to offer proof in digital camera as a prosecution witness within the case of Republic v Kwesi Nyantakyi and Another.

Dissatisfied with the choice given of the High Court 2, Kwesi Nyantakyi by way of his lead counsel, Thaddeus Sory utilized to the Supreme Court for an order of certiorari to quash the dispensation given to Anas Aremeyaw Anas by the High Court.

The utility was premised on three grounds; that the order of the High Court offended the human rights of the applicant as assured beneath the 1992 Constitution, that the order was made with out regard to the procedures and guidelines of courtroom which required {that a} formal and never an oral utility be made in such circumstances ; and the order of the courtroom was made in extra of jurisdiction of the courtroom.

Presided over by Justice Baffoe-Bonnie on Tuesday, November 8, 2022, the Judge granted an utility for certiorari filed by Kwesi Nyantakyi quashing the order of High Court 2, Criminal Division, Accra granting a dispensation to Anas Aremeyaw Anas to testify in digital camera as a prosecution witness within the felony case entitled Republic v Kwesi Nyantakyi Another.

The Supreme Court upheld the appliance and quashed the order of the High Court as having been made with out the requisite authorized foundation.