Court strikes out former Gov Numu’s case

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Court strikes out former Gov Numu’s case

PORT MORESBY: A district court in Goroka has struck out the case involving former Eastern Highlands Governor Peter Numu and others for improper wording and the lack of clarity of the charges.

Numu and the others were charged in relation to interrupting the Eastern Highlands provincial seat counting during General Election 2022.

Police alleged that on Aug 7, 2022, between 10am and 11am, Numu and others disrupted counting in the National Sports Institute.

The court proceedings were reported by The National:

Court strikes out Numu’s case

November 21, 2022The NationalMain Stories

THE Goroka District Court has struck out a case involving former Eastern Highlands Governor Peter Numu and others for improper wording and the lack of clarity of the charges.
Numu and the others were charged in relation to interrupting the Eastern Highlands regional seat counting during the 2022 General Election. Police alleged that on Sunday, Aug 7, 2022, between 10am and 11am, Numu and others disrupted counting at the National Sports Institute counting venue.
Goroka District Court Magistrate Cosmos Inkisopo ruled that:

  • INFORMATION against the defendants legally defective;
  • INFORMATION charging the 137 defendants to be struck out;
  • BAIL money be refunded to the defendants; and,
  • THE 137 defendants be discharged of the charges.

Numu had filed an application through lawyer Samuel Efiua to dismiss the case for want of people descriptions and lack of clarity in the summary of facts.
“To my humble mind, it may be quite sufficient to set out in brief only the alleged facts that support the charge.
“But in my view, what is important and essential to render any information valid and effective is to frame the wording of the charge in such a way as to be setting out in clear descriptive terms the acts and omissions that are alleged to have been committed that constitute the offence.
“Copying the exact wording of the offence creating provision of the law without clarifying or articulating the alleged act and omission allegedly done constituting that very offence as alleged is that bad at law, in my humble view.”

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