[ 2016-07-28 ]

Scrutinize Montie FM management – Attah Akyea
New Patriotic Party (NPP), Member of Parliament
(MP) for Abuakwa South, Samuel Atta Akyea, has
said the managers of Montie FM should be
scrutinized for employing the services of the two
panelists, and the host of the ‘Pampaso’ show,
who have been convicted for contempt by the
Supreme Court.

Alistair Nelson, Godwin Ako Gunn and Salifu Maase,
alias Mugabe, were sentenced to serve four months
in jail on Wednesday, after being found guilty by
the apex court for threatening the lives of the
judges who were presiding over a case on the
credibility of the voters’ register.

The pro-government radio station, has earned some
notoriety for reportedly attacking opposition
figures and has been often described as the
NDC’s response to the opposition-linked Oman
FM.

Samuel Atta Akyea noted that, while the sentence
given to the perpetrators was deserved, more focus
needs to be given to the political figures who
hire people for such stations just to tarnish the
image of others.

According to the private legal practitioner, the
owners of Montie FM must be held accountable for
allowing such characters on their platform.

“What I believe should be the case in Ghana is
that, we should watch the people who hire them to
do these things. These are hirelings; there’s no
way any serious journalist would do what they did.
I’m tempted to believe that there are some
people who are politically strong who take
pleasure in the fact that somebody’s reputation
and the career he’s built is being destroyed and
that we could let these young men do their
bidding. This is what is more serious and we
should look at,” he told Citi News.

“If the owners glorify in the fact that others
are being destroyed and their reputations are
being torn into pieces, then they are worse off
than those going to jail.”


The trio, were also ordered to pay an amount of
10, 000 cedis each by the close of day Thursday,
July 28, or risk serving an extra month in jail.

The directors of the station, were also fined by
the court for failing to prevent the incident on
their platform.

Network Broadcasting Limited, and Zeze Media,
which owns the frequency on which Montie FM is
broadcast, were ordered to pay Ghc30,000 each.

In presenting the sentences, the Presiding judge,
Sophia Akuffo, stated that the two panelists had
willfully attacked the Chief Justice and lowered
the authority of the court by insisting that they
will not accept its judgment on a controversial
matter of the voter’s register.

She lamented the fact that judges had consistently
suffered verbal abuse which would not be tolerated
any longer.

Source - citifmonline.com

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