Calling the Chief Justice’s ruling upholding the President’s appointment of Clifton Hicken to act as Commissioner of Police “too grave to be left standing,” the APNU+AFC opposition has said it will appeal.
In a press statement issued on Thursday evening, hours after the ruling was delivered, attorney Roysdale Forde SC, who represented Opposition Chief Whip, Christopher Jones, in whose name the challenge was mounted, said they will be moving to have the entire decision set aside.
According to Forde, who is also the APNU+AFC Shadow Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, “the decision must be cause for great concern and it is regrettable that it is to be considered as a judicial green light” to what he said are “unilateral appointments by the Presidency.”
