Justice Dery petitions President over true identity of Tiger Eye PI
Lawyers for Mr Justice Paul Uuter Dery, the embattled Justice of the High Court, have called on the President to cause an investigation into the true identity of Tiger Eye PI, the company that petitioned the Chief Justice for the removal of their client from the bench.
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According to them, events and statements after the filing of the petition for the removal of the judge indicated that there was confusion as to the true identity of the petitioner.
This was contained in a petition filed by the lawyers to the office of the President on February 8, 2016, a copy of which has been made available to the Daily Graphic.
Confused identities
According to the petition, it was on record that the Chief Executive Officer of Tiger Eye PI was Anas Aremeyaw Anas and that same person was one of the two directors of Tiger Eye PI Media Limited and the sole shareholder and one of the two directors of Stallion Tiger Company Limited and the sole shareholder.
“On the face of the petition, the petitioner is Tiger Eye PI. However, statements put on social media by the Chief Executive Officer of Tiger Eye PI, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, and the company lawyer, Mr Kissi Agyebeng, indicate otherwise.
“This change of identity again does not end the identity problems of the petitioner. If one was asked what the identity of the petitioner was, the answer would be problematic. Is the petitioner Tiger Eye PI as appears on the petition? Is it Tiger Eye PI Ltd or Tiger Eye PI Media Limited or Stallion Tiger Limited?”
“Your Excellency, we have the instructions of our client to draw your attention to these serious identity problems of the petitioner for in our view, the identity of the petitioner is paramount to any petition for the removal of Justices of the Superior Court pursuant to Article 146 of the 1992 Constitution,” the petition added.
Searches
According to the petition, Mr Justice Dery had caused his lawyers to file various searches at the relevant statutory institutions to determine the identity of the petitioner, Tiger Eye PI, pointing out that the revelations from the searches appeared to show that there was no company in Ghana by the name Tiger Eye PI.
“Your Excellency, the search report from the Registrar of Companies of Ghana, who is the legitimate statutory body who registers companies limited by shares, on its search report dated 3rd November, 2015 significantly states thus: We do not have any company on record called Tiger Eye PI. We have on record Tiger Eye PI Media Limited,” it stated.
Search at SSNIT
It said the petitioner must register with the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) and pay the social security contributions of its employees and that prompted the lawyers to file a search with SSNIT.
According to the petition, the lawyers were informed by SSNIT after the search that the name on its records was Tiger Eye Consult Limited, which was registered on June 13, 2013 and not Tiger Eye PI.
Search at Ministry of the Interior
It said the petitioner claimed to be a private security organisation licensed by the Ministry of the Interior pursuant to the Police Service (Private Security Organisations) Instrument, 1992 (L.I.1571) to carry out its operations.
“We, therefore, filed a search with the Ministry of the Interior and this is what the report says: ‘Records available in this Ministry indicate that Tiger Eye PI Media Limited was licensed as a private security company by this Ministry in 2010 but later the name was changed to Stallion Tiger Limited in 2012’,” the petition indicated.
According to the petition, throughout all the happenings in respect of the petition of Tiger Eye PI, the lawyers had never heard of Stallion Tiger Limited.
“Since the regulator of private security organisations, that is the Ministry of the Interior, has come out with a company by name Stallion Tiger Limited, we became curious and did an informal search online about Stallion Tiger Limited and found that it was incorporated on September 12, 2012,” it stated.
