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[ 2016-07-31 ]
Egbert Faibille - Lawyer The hypocrisy must stop - Egbert Faibille Legal practitioner Egbert Faibille Jnr has
disagreed with the claim that the sentence given
to the ‘Montie 3’ was too harsh.
Pressure is currently being mounted on President
John Mahama from members of his party, the
National Democratic Congress (NDC), to invoke
Article 72 of the Constitution to grant a
presidential pardon to Alistair Nelson, Godwin Ako
Gunn, and Salifu Maase, alias Mugabe, who were
sentenced to imprisonment for contempt.
Research and Advocacy Platform (RAP), a think
tank, is pooling signatures to support a petition
to that end.
Lawyers for the contemnors have also petitioned
the president to fall on his constitutional powers
to free the three.
Speaking on Joy FM’s Saturday news analysis
show, ‘Newsfile’, Lawyer Faibille wondered why
other people who were sentenced in the past on
similar charges were not defended.
"I don’t think the judgement was wrong or
harsh…the hypocrisy is too much. Those on the
rooftop shouting the most; in 1998 a similar thing
happened; so what has changed? Is it because the
people involved are party apparatchiks? We need to
stop the hypocrisy in this country and respect the
institutions of state," he said. Source - peacefmonline.com
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