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Private legal practitioner has threatened court action against a member
of the government's Communication team for allegedly making spurious
remarks about his personality.
Lawyer Dr. Maurice Ampaw has
issued a two-week ultimatum to government Communicator, Alhaji Naziru
Mohammed to retract his disparaging remarks or else meet him in court.
It
could be recalled that Lawyer Ampaw, in a statement he issued regarding
the conduct of the Supreme Court Judges who sat on the 2012 election
petition case, stressed that majority of the Judges handled the
petitioners in an impolite manner by the use of their intemperate
language.
He concluded that, after carefully scrutinizing the
judgment written by the nine-member panel, some Judges used offensive
words and insults in writing their judgments.
He therefore advised Judges to avoid using harsh words and vituperation when delivering their verdicts.
But speaking on Okay FM's "Ghana Decides"
programme, government's Communicator, Alhaji Naziru Mohammed stated on
authority that the research by the Legal Advocacy Foundation which is
headed by Lawyer (Dr.) Maurice Ampaw was not fairly and independently
done.
He asserted that Dr. Maurice Ampaw's remarks were motivated
by the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP). He branded him (Maurice) a
liar should he deny his ( Naziru’s) assertions.
“…..I speak on
authority of what I know and that is, the work and report the lawyer has
brought is not fairly independently done...I have heard him on the same
platform that the NPP sent him to do the work; I challenge him to deny
if he did not receive any assistance from NPP Executives and used their
branded vehicles when he conducted his research in Cape Coast,” he
contended.
But Maurice Ampaw had denied receiving any form of assistance from the New Patriotic Party (NPP) on his research.
Addressing the issue in an interview with Peacefmonline.com, Dr. Maurice Ampaw expressed resentment over the comments by the NDC Communicator and threatened legal action against him.
According
to him, he only made certain relevant observations about the conduct of
the Judges in writing their judgments and toured the 10 regions of the
country educating the media and Ghanaians about some lapses he
discovered regarding the verdict which was given.
“I went on my
own voluntarily. Individually, went through all the regions…So, the
allegation by Nasiru that I was supported by NPP is false. It’s unfair
and it is malicious…I have made my opinion. I have raised legal issues
with the judgement and I am expecting the NDC legal team; that legal
team that has the legal knowledge to respond to the issues but because
they respect my opinion, none of them have responded to the issue.
“None
of them has attacked me but Naziru Mohammed who is a Communicator. Has
no knowledge about law goes out there and makes damaging remarks about
me that Dr. Maurice Ampaw is a liar without responding to the issues
that I have raised…NPP as a party, I don’t belong in that party. I will
never receive any money from any politician….Because when you receive
money from a politician, they dictate to you and then you cannot speak
your mind.”
He also strongly denied any attachment to the opposition New Patriotic Party.
“I
have not been supported by the NPP. I am not NPP; I am not NDC. I don’t
belong to any political party. I don’t hold their card. I’ve not
registered as a member."
To him, the allegations leveled against
him by Alhaji Naziru have no basis and so he's "giving Naziru two weeks
to retract this unfortunate statement because if he fails to do so, then
he’s daring me and challenging me about what he said that NPP sponsored
me. They’ve given me car; it’s true. Therefore, he will then have to go
to court and then prove that allegation and then to set the record
straight.”
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