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Supreme Court finds alleged contemnors guilty; adjourns case for sentencing on July 27
The contemnors include two panellists, Godwin Ako Gunn and Alistair Nelson and a host of Montie FM based in Accra.
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The alleged contemnors include two panellists, Godwin Ako Gunn and Alistair Nelson, talk show host Mugabe, as well as owners of Montie FM based in Accra.
The accused were found guilty for scandalizing the court, defying and lowering the authority of the court and bringing it into disrepute by the court presided over by Justice Sophia Akuffo.
Lawyers for the three however pleaded with the court to temper justice with mercy.
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The case has been adjourned to July 27 for sentencing.
Meanwhile, one of the Montie FM panellists blamed his comments in which he and another panelist threatened to kill the judges to a disease called “kpokpogbligbli.”
According to Alistair Nelson, “kpokpogbligbli is an unknown disease that takes over a person’s body and controls what he says and does."
He made this known when he appeared before the Supreme Court to explain why he and others should not be “committed to prison for contempt of court, for scandalizing the court, defying and lowering the authority of the court, and bringing the authority of the court into disrepute.”
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The Supreme Court also played in open court, audiotapes which contained alleged threats issued by two radio pundits Godwin Ako Gunn and Alistair Nelson against justices of the apex court.
The tapes were played on the insistence of presiding judge Justice Sophia Akuffo, despite pleas from counsel for the alleged contemnors' tapes not to be played.
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.
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.”
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The Chief Justice, Georgina Theodora Wood, and another judge of the Supreme Court, Sulley Gbadegbe 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.
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