The tribunal handling a complaint against the Vanimo Green member of parliament Belden Namah has been adjourned to February 9th next year.
This is to allow time for the public prosecutors to sort through the Ombudsman Commissions 892 paged statement of reasons into the allegations laid against Namah.
After postponing the hearing from this morning to allow Public Prosecutor Pondros Kaluwin and his team to sort through the statements and arrange an index, the Chairman of the Leadership Tribunal Justice Goodwin Poole still was not satisfied when he was presented with a summary of the statement of reasons this afternoon.
Justice Poole says that even with the summary index it would be difficult for the tribunal to sort through the statements which contained some irrelevant documents as well.
He ordered all the copies of the statements to be rearranged into an ordered layout with any irrelevant material to be excluded.
Also Judge Poole said that Namah’s lawyers must be given all statements of all witnesses by mid-December, adding that the tribunal cannot lead litigation by ambush and saying that the leader and his legal team need to made aware of the witnesses and the nature of their evidence to allow them time to take notice.