The tapes were played on the insistence of presiding judge Justice Sophia Akuffo, despite pleas from counsel for the contemnors George Loh, Nana Ato Dadzie and Martin Ampofo Agyei for them not to be played.
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The two panellists, Nelson and Gunn told the court they were liable to the offence and expressed regret.
The host of the said programme, Mugabe, even though admitting that he was liable to the offence, said that he had an explanation for his conduct.
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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.
