Outspoken
NDP Communicator, Ernest Owusu Bempah claims he has substantial
evidence to support suspicions that Lawyer Tsatsu Tsikata was treated
with kid gloves by the country's Judiciary.
It would be recalled
that prior to the verdict by the nine-member panel who heard the
Presidential Petition case filed against the Electoral Commission by
leaders of the New Patriotic Party, several political figures,
particularly on the opposition bench, wondered why Lawyer Tsikata was a
couple of times left off-the-hook by the Judges.
This concern
might have since seemed irrelevant after the Judges delivered their
verdict on the case, leading to President John Mahama being declared a
"validly elected" Head of State.
Several months later, Ernest Owusu Bempah appears to have something that can re-ignite the debate.
He dared to offer proof that Lawyer Tsatsu Tsikata was pampered by the Judges.
To him, some Judges in the country owe allegiance to him (Tsatsu Tsikata), thus they dread to reprimand him when he errs.
Contributing
to a panel discussion programme on Oman FM, he said; “There are some
Judges in this country who, upon hearing the name Tsatsu Tsikata, tend
to search for an escape route. And I will tell Ghanaians why, at the
appropriate time. Tsatsu Tsikata is only person in this country who has
turned himself into a pampered child...He can vilify Judges and disgrace
them but all we hear is; ‘Tsatsu, are you angry’?
“The secret is
that some Judges feel they owe their allegiance to Tsatsu, in becoming
who they are; in their rise to the Supreme Court...this will end because
it’s jeopardizing the Ghana’s justice system,” Owusu Bempah stressed.
The
NDP Deputy Communications Director also questioned the basis for the
establishment of a Commission to investigate Judgment debts paid
illegally to companies and individuals by the State.
He posits
President John Mahama has no ''moral authority'' to have set up a
Commission to look into Judgment debts in the country.
According
to him, under his (Mahama’s) administration, there have been a record of
numerous entities embezzling funds and others being declared guilty by
the Supreme Court in the Judgment debt saga, but government has thus
failed to retrieve such monies.
He also disclosed that the
Presidency has employed the services of some South African Public
Relations experts to provide 'diabolic' counsel to the President.
The experts, he stated, are offered 1 million dollars for their services rendered to the nation.
Summing
up his point, he believed the Mahama-led government is judged by their
lack of moral grounds and so, stated emphatically that "they should cut
that unnecessary cock and bull nonsense…Are we doing an animal
farm?...That we have gone for South African PR experts to Ghana who are
now doing diabolic PR for President. So, they want to push this agenda
because corruption is becoming endemic.”
“What moral authority
does he have to set up such Commission that some people have embezzled
funds so we should go after it?” he queried |
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