Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, the North Tongu member of parliament, has finally explained why he kicked court papers delivered to him by a fictitious bailiff in February of this year.
The MP was brought before the court for the behavior, which the plaintiff, Victor Kusi Boateng, claimed amounted to contempt for the legal system.
The contempt case, which only sought a jail sentence for Ablakwa, was dismissed last Thursday with the judge awarding Ablakwa a fine of 10,000 cedis.
In an interview on Metro TV, Ablakwa provided an explanation for why he violently kicked court papers delivered to him.
According to the MP, he was provoked as the young man who was sent refused to identify himself to him.
“I was extremely provoked; I was asking the gentleman who are you and he wouldn’t tell me. He just says ‘I have documents for you,’ I say ‘which documents?’ Just let me know, then he threw it at me.
“So, I lost my cool… honestly that is not me. It was an unfortunate incident …but I felt so disrespected. I was driving myself and I thought I could just kick it out of my way and go away,” he added.
He also reiterated that in court, the plaintiff failed to provide proof of service when the judge demanded it because the supposed bailiff was not known to the court, a fact his lawyers established when they went through the court registry.
The said bailiff had gone to serve defamation suit on Ablakwa from Kusi Boateng, an official of the National Cathedral Project who Ablakwa had been publishing damning allegations about since last year.