General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia has condemned the letter written by the lawyers for the Ghana Judicial Service to all media houses.
Lawyers for the Ghana Judicial Service says it is
unacceptable for media houses to
publish on your platforms, speeches and statements and publications which excite anger, hate and passion against the Justices presiding over the election petition .
A statement addressed to all media houses in the country, indicated that such
statements and speeches interfere with the due administration of justice as Justices of our client are threatened with ominous consequences following their decisions which do not meet the expectations of some members of the society .
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We Must Not Turn This Jurisdiction Of Contempt Into A Fetish - Mahama s Aide On Judicial Service Statement
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Madam Joyce Bawa Mogtari, a lawyer and Special Aide to former President John Dramani Mahama has reacted to a statement released by the lawyers for the Ghana Judicial Service.
The statement had asked media houses with damaging stories against the Justices of the Supreme Court to pull it down.
According to Madam Mogtari, the statement should have come after the ruling of the ongoing 2020 election petition. Maybe if this had come after the ruling; considering the timing in terms of the context, even reading the content of that correspondent leave enormous room and cause for worry . . . she intimated. They might have very good reason why they have taken this step but as a practitioner and a student of the law, I would like to just state without any fear of equivocation that I would expect that we do not turn this jurisdiction of contempt into a fetish but that we should seek to legislate accordingly and give clear guidelines and in that sense people will understand and people