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"Do not grant pardon" – Ace Ankomah to Mahama
I hope that President Mahama will not allow himself to be pushed or tricked into writing himself unto this inglorious list by pardoning or granting any form of reprieve to the Montie Gang.
Ace Ankomah, legal practitioner
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Ako Gunn and Alistair Nelson who appeared on a show hosted by Salifu Maase aka Mugabe on Montie FM in Accra were found guilty of contempt and handed a four-month jail term. This was after the two panellists made threatening comments against the Chief Justice as the host led them on.
After their sentence, there have been people describing their sentence as harsh. Notable among them is the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hannah Tetteh. The NDC also issued a statement which said the Supreme Court was gagging media freedom with such sentences.
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A petition book has also been opened at the premises of Radio Gold and the freedom centre both in Accra to gather enough signatures to petition the president to exercise his prerogative of mercy.
However, there are those who believe the President should allow the trio serve the sentence to the fullest. Ace Ankomah is one with such views.
In a post on his facebook wall he mentions that should the President heed to the calls and grant the three pardon, it will be recorded as one of the shameful events in Ghana’s judicial history.
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Ankomah mentioned the events such as the overturning of the Tawiah Adamafio judgement by Parliament and “the murder of 3 High Court judges by government agents under Rawlings.”
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He rather urged the President to listen to the audio of the trio and take a firm stand not to kowtow to the demands being made for their release.
Find below the full opinion of Ace Ankomah as he put up on his Facebook wall
If ever the judicial history of post-independence Ghana gets written, it will record certain significant events of infamy. In chronological order:
1. When Parliament under the CPP overturned the Tawiah Adamafio judgment, judges got sacked and a new court empaneled to give the judgment Nkrumah wanted.
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2. Busia's "No Court, No Court" speech, after he lost the Apollo 568 case.
3. (And this takes the biscuit) The murder of 3 High Court judges by government agents under Rawlings.
4. This position is vacant. I hope that President Mahama will not allow himself to be pushed or tricked into writing himself unto this inglorious list by pardoning or granting any form of reprieve to the Montie Gang.
Sir, pay particular attention to Mugabe's 11-minute rant where he says he is only in Ghana, doing what he does on radio because of YOU. Please don't give any voice, life, mileage or credibility to that asinine statement.
Leave these guys to stew in their own juices, Sir. You didn't send them to do what they did, and you have no obligation to lift a finger, and thereby create the biggest constitutional crisis in the 4th Republic.
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