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Prez Mahama has exhibited fairness by exercising the prerogative of mercy - Lawyers

“The President’s power is a constitutional one. If anybody wants to challenge it, it may not fly.”

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One of the lawyers for the three George Loh said the President only exercised his constitutional powers.

Backing his colleague, Edudzi Tamakloe who spoke to Accra-based Citi FM said

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He further argued that he does not believe President Mahama has erred by granting pardon to the three even though a Ghanaian citizen, Elikplim L. Agbemava, filed a suit seeking an interlocutory injunction to restrain the President from exercising his prerogative of mercy to free the three contemnors.

He said the contemnors have shown remorse for their actions even before they were sentenced. He encouraged that everybody learns from the case of the three.

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