With Criminal Issues, We Don’t Beg...Law Must Deal With Montie FM Panelists

NPP Communicator, Nana Boakye says the three men sued for contempt of court over comments they allegedly made against Judges should face a jail term if found guilty. According to him, the men, Salifu Maase, popularly known as Mugabe, of Montie FM, Godwin Ako Gunn and Alistair Tairo Nelson, both National Democratic Congress (NDC) activists should be made to face the law squarely. He told host Kwami Sefa Kayi that their comments borders on criminality and so the court should serve justice to them for undermining the Judges. The trio has been sued by one Richard Asante Yeboah for contempt of court for making disparaging remarks on the pro-NDC radio station and a sister station of Radio Gold. They are quoted to have threatened to kill Judges if the Supreme Court doesn't leave the Electoral Commission to do her work. “I have told you that if this country should collapse, those who caused it will face our wrath. We shall start from their homes. “Those judges who are trying to stoke the fire, I know where all of them live. I know where the judges live in Accra, I know their quarters; I mean the Supreme Court judges. “I also know the High Court judges. Yes, I am telling you. God has a way of… If they like they should bring on something and it will start in their residences; I am telling you, in their neighbourhoods," Alistair Nelson, one of the respondents in the case is reported to have said. Speaking on 'Kokrokoo' on Peace FM, Nana Boakye said "they should face the law. If they have to be jailed, they deserve to go to serve as a deterrent" to other people likely to make similar remarks about the judiciary. He noted that their apology should not be a panacea for justice. “I’ve heard that they’ve apologized, so the case should be closed. If that were so, then Kumasi Prison should be empty. Nsawam would have been empty. Because when you commit a crime and you have to apologize, [Chairman] every criminal person apologizes . . . When it comes to criminal issues, we don’t beg. The law deals with the person accordingly,” he said.

Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi /Peacefmonline.com/Ghana