There was pandemonium at the Supreme Court yesterday as supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) brazenly assaulted journalists covering the case involving embattled Salifu Maase aka Mugabe, host of “Pampaso,” a political talk-show on Montie FM, and two other panelists on the programme who issued death threats on the lives of the judges.
The supporters, numbering over 300, attacked at random any journalist on sight, compelling some of the members of the profession to take cover to save their lives.
Radio journalists who were sending live reports to their various stations were hounded by the bellicose young men and women obviously ‘bused’ to the place to cause mayhem for a fee.
Scores of journalists, including Citi FM’s Fred Djabanor and his photographer; Metro TV’s crew, Theophilus Akwei and Nimatu Yakubu Atuoyese and DAILY GUIDE’s reporter were not spared the assault of the NDC thugs.
The supporters of the contemnors attacked the journalists because according to them, they (journalists) wanted to take shots and videos of their heroes.
The three were whisked away from the scene in a police vehicle with registration number GP 2950 under police protection to their offices.
The supporters, who chanted, “We Want Mugabe!.. We Want Mugabe!…We Want Mugabe!…” had flooded the court in support of Mugabe, Godwin Ako Gunn, 39, and Alistair Tairo Nelson, 41, both NDC activists summoned before the court to answer contempt charges against them.
The contemnors had been summoned before the court to show cause why they should not be committed to prison for contempt of court following their comments on Montie FM, the sister radio station to pro-NDC Radio Gold at Laterbiokoshie in Accra.
Per the said utterances, the accused persons were alleged to have “scandalized the court, defied and lowered the authority of the court and brought the authority of the court into disrepute.”
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