The Supreme Court has adjourned to Monday July 18, the contempt hearing involving the two radio panelists and the host who threatened judges in the country on Accra-based Montie FM.
The case was adjourned after the contemnors argued that they were not served with the writ until Tuesday morning, a position which was corroborated by the court registrar. Prior to the hearing, the Chief Justice Georgina Wood and Justice Sulley Gbadegbe recused themselves paving way for Justices Sophia Akufo and Julius Ansah to join a reconstituted panel chaired by her ladyship Akufo.
According to Mrs Woode and Gbadegbe, they were directly mentioned by the contemnors in their alleged threat to kill judges sitting on the voters’ register case.
Meanwhile, the court ordered lawyers of Montie FM to ensure that all persons who own a stake in the station appear before the court on Monday, July 18, 2016.
The Accra-based station was represented by one Edward Addo but the court wants all the directors of the company to appear before it.
Background
Alistair Nelson and Godwin Ako Gunn, who were panellists on ‘Pampaso’, a political programme on Montie FM in Accra on June 29, warned judges of Ghana’s highest court to be wary of their conduct in the case involving the Electoral Commission and Mr Abu Ramadan if they did not want to suffer the fate of the three members of the bench who were shot to death and burnt on June 30, 1982 in the era of the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC).
The two panelists were represented in court by a George Loh, who is also a Member of Parliament while the owner of the station was represented by a former Chief of Staff under the erstwhile Rawlings administration, Nana Ato-Dadzie. The host was however represented by one Nana Adjei
The two, as well as the host of the show and owner of the station, Mugabe Maase were summoned to justify why they should not be imprisoned for their conduct.
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