The Supreme Court justices hearing the contempt suit against the owners of Accra based radio station Montie FM and four others have expressed their displeasure about the failure of all the owners of the station to show up before them.
The Supreme Court has adjourned the case to July 18.
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A Ghanian citizen Edward Addo appeared in court today indicating that he was representing the rest of the owners of the company.
His announcement did not sit well with the apex court justices leading to the presiding judge Sophia Akuffo indicating that the case was a quasi criminal case.
Responding to the concerns of the justices, lawyer for the owners of Montie FM, Nana Ato Dadzie explained to the court that the owners of the station were all out of the country.
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The court therefore adjourned the case to July 18, 2016 for the rest of the directors to appear before them for hearing.
The court in a letter last Thursday, asked the owners to explain why they should not be “committed to prison for contempt of court, for scandalising the court, defying and lowering the authority of the court, and bringing the authority of the court into disrepute.”
Meanwhile, the Chief Justice, Georgina Theodora Wood, and another judge of the Supreme Court, Sulley Gbadegbe, have stepped down from the panel hearing the contempt case against owners of Accra-based Montie FM, the host of the station’s ‘Pampaso’ programme, and the two panelists, who threatened to kill judges over their handling of the Abu Ramadan suit on the credibility of the voters’ register.
According to them, they did so because their names were specifically mentioned in the comments of the three people facing the contempt charges.
