The Office of Special Prosecutor has been ordered by a court not to apply for a further warrant of arrest until the case filed by Mr. Bissue is determined.
This comes after the former Secretary of the defunct Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), Charles Bissue secured an injunction against the arrest warrant issued by the Office of the Special Prosecutor.
The prosecutor’s office had earlier declared Charles Bissue wanted after he had failed to honor invitations by the OSP, to aid in investigations on the activities of the defunct committee set up to end galamsey.
Charles Bissue’s lawyers on Thursday morning urged the High Court to injunct the OSP.
“That by failing to make available a copy of the Petition and for that matter, the particulars of the complaint forming the basis of the investigation for which the Ist Respondent (OSP) had invited the Applicant, the 1st Respondent is acting in a manner which is unfair, unreasonable and unlawful and thus, contrary to the provisions of the aforementioned L.I. 2374 and Article 23 of the Constitution 1992.
“That the Applicant was reliably informed sometime on or around the 7th of June 2023, that the 1st Respondent had applied to the 2nd Respondent and had been granted an Arrest Warrant against him, notwithstanding the fact that the aforementioned Motion for Interlocutory Injunction remained pending.”
The court granted the request barring the OSP from executing any warrant procured.
He is also barred from applying for another warrant and publishing notices until the determination of the case. This order is to last for 10 days.
