Dery petitions Mahama over 'death threats' on his life

One of the High Court judges indicted in the Judicial corruption scandal, Justice Uuter Dery has asked President John Mahama to direct investigation into what he describes as death threats on his life.

According to the embattled judge, after he petitioned the president to investigate the true identity of Tiger Eye PI, someone made comments about him on February 9, on the Facebook page of the Daily Graphic.

“This man’s intransigence is making some of us revise our notes on Amartei Kwei and Co’s killing of the three High Court Judges and the retired Army Officer. For how long will these legal gymnastics last?,” one Cephas Kumah quoted on facebook.

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Justice Dery has subsequently explained that he feels threatened by the above comment.

“I am therefore requesting that you use your esteemed office to cause investigations to be conducted into that threat. I hope and pray that you would expeditiously act on this petition as I fear for my life,” Justice Dery petitioned.

Ghana was hit with a massive bribery scandal in September 2015, when it was revealed in an expose by Anas Aremeyaw Anas and his Tiger Eye team, that Superior and lower court judges took bribes from litigants whose cases come before them.

Twenty of the Magistrate and Circuit Court judges implicated in the judicial scandal have been removed from office so far.

Two High Court judges John Ajet-Nasam and Ernest Obimpeh have been subsequently sacked after being implicated in the judicial scandal.