[ 2016-07-27 ]

Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong, Attorney General & Minister for Justice

Supreme Court not happy with Attorney General in Montie FM saga
The Supreme Court appears not happy with the
posture of the Attorney General after two
panellists of Montie FM recently threatened to
murder five justices.

The panellists, Alistair Tairo Nelson and Godwin
Ako Gunn, on June 24th and June 29th severally
threatened to replicate the 34-year-ago murder of
three high court judges if judgement in the Abu
Ramadan/Evans Nimako Vrs EC/AG case does not
favour the defendants.

The Supreme Court on July 18 convicted the two
panellists and Salifu Maase, popularly known on
radio as Mugaabe, the host of Pampaso, the
programme on which the threats were spued.

The owners were also convicted. Reading the
judgement on Wednesday, July 27, presiding judge
Sophia Akuffo said the Attorney General should
have noticed the criminality in the threat and
acted upon it.

“There is an element of criminality in their
utterances which the Attorney-General should have
noticed and acted upon,” Justice Sophia Akuffo
observed.

“There are constitutional provisions that
establish the independence of the judiciary and
that even the president cannot control judges.”

She called for “utmost” respect for the
judiciary if the country’s democracy is to be
safeguarded. “Any conduct that seeks to
interfere with the judiciary is an act against the
community.”

The two panellists and the host were slapped with
a four-month jail term each plus a total of
GH¢30,000 fine while the owners were to pay
GH¢30,000 by close of day Thursday, July 28.
Defaulting in payment of the fine by the
panellists and host will see them serving an
additional one month in gaol.

Source - 3news.com

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