Supreme Court must punish Montie FM’s Mugabe and Co-Boakye AgyarkoTIM

The 2016 Policy Advisor for the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Boakye Agyarko, is urging the Supreme Court to punish Salifu Maase aka Mugabe, the host of pampaso political show on Montie FM and two other panelists who threatened to kill judges.

According to him, the three persons should not be treated lightly due to the magnitude of their comments.

“We don’t have to treat this issue lightly at all,” Mr. Agyarko said.

He added that governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) should also not be made to get away with the issue since they (Mugabe and others) were doing the bid of the party.

Mr. Agyarko was commenting on the writ of summons issued by the Supreme Court inviting owner of Montie FM and three other persons namely Salifu Maase, Godwin Ako Gunn and Alistair Tairo Nelson, who are members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to appear before the court on Tuesday 12 July 2016. The three are reported to have threatened to kill Judges if they don't allow the Electoral Commission (EC) to do its work. Messers Nelson and Gunn were alleged to have threatened the lives of the Supreme Court judges during a political discussion program on June 29, 2016, a day to the commemoration of the 30th Anniversary of the Martyrs Day in Ghana when three judges were abducted and brutally murdered. The two threatened to "finish" the judges they accused do not want peace in the country. While at it, the host looked on in agreement, and thanked the two panelists for their threatening comments. Alistair Tairo Nelson is quoted to have said on the programme that he knows the residence of the Judges and threatened to storm their houses to visit mayhem on them. “I have told you that if this country should collapse, those who caused it will face our wrath. We shall start from their homes," he said. Fortunately, God has cleared the way for us,” Alistair Nelson said, adding “Those judges who are trying to stoke the fire, I know where all of them live. I know where the judges live in Accra, I know their quarters; I mean the Supreme Court judges. “I also know the High Court judges. Yes, I am telling you. God has a way of . . . If they like they should bring on something and it will start in their residences; I am telling you, in their neighbourhoods."

Speaking on Oman FM’s political analysis programme “Boiling Point” Mr. Agyarko, who accused NDC of having a track record of murdering judges argued that judges in the country have been threatened with death since independence and underscored the need for the Supreme Court to assert it authority to end the threats on judges.

“Go into our history and you will see how judges have been threatened with death,” he told Martin Kwabena Kwakye, host of the show adding “When you read about Ray Akoto’s case it will tell you how Ghana’s first leader, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah of blessed memory developed hatred for the judiciary.”

“So it is not today that judges are being threatened in the country,” he added.

Mr. Agyarko, who condemned the three NDC activists for threatening judges, noted that the judiciary is the last bastion of our freedom and charged Ghanaians to stand up against anyone whose utterances would denigrate the judiciary.

He warned political activists and social commentators against running down judges on radio talk shows.

“Nobody should be allowed to sit on radio and run down judges…You may not agree with their ruling on certain cases but insulting and threatening them is not the way to go,” he said.

He also advised judges in the country to emulate the likes of Thomas Moore of blessed memory who stood for the truth in spite of being threatened with death.

Story By: Michael Creg Afful

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