Stop wasting court’s time: Polye

FORMER Kandep MP Don Polye is calling on incumbent Alfred Manase not to frustrate due processes and waste court’s time with the slip rule application which has already exhausted its use.
He was responding to a news article in which Manase said there was no urgency in the judicial recount set to be staged in Kundiawa this month.
Polye said a precedent had been set in the previous Kandep judicial recount in 2016 when the Supreme Court refused leave for a slip rule application Manase was seeking to challenge the lower court’s ruling. Polye said the recount would verify who was the true leader mandated by the Kandep people through the ballots, adding the recount was not an exhaustive court process.
“If Manase or any other party is aggrieved with the outcome of the much-anticipated recount, there are still opportunities to challenge it,” he said.
“Manase’s application seeking leave for a slip rule highly questions the integrity of the three-man bench Supreme Court which upheld the decision of the lower court.”