The Supreme Court has refused to pause the Accra High Court trial over an alleged $2 million payment linked to the proposed SkyTrain project. On Monday, 31 August 2026, Justice Senyo Dzamefe, sitting alone, dismissed an interlocutory injunction filed by the first accused, former Ghana Infrastructure Investment Fund (GIIF) chief executive Solomon Asamoah.
The order means the criminal trial can continue while a separate Supreme Court application — asking the court to quash the High Court’s refusal of Asamoah’s “no case” submission — remains undecided. It is not a finding that the alleged payment was lawful or unlawful, and it does not decide whether either accused is guilty.
What the court decided
Asamoah had asked the Supreme Court to stop the High Court from going ahead until his certiorari application was heard. Justice Dzamefe rejected that request.
According to contemporaneous court reporting, the justice held that Asamoah’s own affidavit did not show a serious case for the injunction; that the complaints belonged in an appeal rather than as grounds to freeze the trial; that the High Court judge had not acted without jurisdiction, or beyond jurisdiction, in ruling on the no-case submission; and that Asamoah had not shown what irreparable harm would follow if the trial continued.
The practical effect is limited and precise: the High Court does not have to wait for the Supreme Court to finish with the certiorari application before taking the next steps in the trial.
What remains open
The ruling does not quash the High Court’s 2 July 2026 decision dismissing the no-case submissions of Asamoah and the second accused, former GIIF board chair Professor Christopher Ameyaw-Akumfi. It does not resolve the certiorari application itself. And it does not decide the underlying allegations: that GIIF paid about $2 million toward the Accra SkyTrain project — which was never built — to Africa Investor Holdings Limited without board approval. Both accused have pleaded not guilty.
On Tuesday, 1 September 2026, the Court of Appeal separately dismissed Ameyaw-Akumfi’s application to stay the High Court proceedings pending an appeal, finding that he had not shown exceptional circumstances. That clears another attempt to pause the case, but again without judging the charges.
The next confirmed step
The Accra High Court, presided over by Justice Audrey Kocuvie-Tay, has set Wednesday, 23 September 2026, as the final extended deadline for the accused to file their defence processes if they wish to do so. Whether they open a defence, and what evidence they put forward, will shape the next phase of the trial.