Supreme Court set July 27 to sentence Mugabe, others

The Supreme Court has set July 27, 2016, as the date for the sentecing of two Montie FM panelists, the host of the station’s pampaso show, and the four owners of the station, after they were found guilty of contempt charges brought against them.

The two panelists, Alistair Tairo Nelson and Godwin Ako Gunn during a current affairs programme on the radio station, threatened to “finish” the Supreme Court and High Court judges if they made any judgment against the Electoral Commission in the suit filed by Abu Ramadan and Evans Nimako challenging the validity of the voters’ register.

The two commentators are said to have been angered by the court’s orders for the EC to submit all the names of person who registered with NHIS cards prior to the 2012 elections last week

In an audio take that went viral on social media, the host of the show, Salifu Maase aka Mugabe who has gained noteriety for insulting members of the opposition New Patriotic Party leaders, is heard loudly urging them on to unleash more of threat.

Several interest groups including Catholic Bishops Conference and Ghana Bar Association isssued a statement condemning their action and calling for their dragged before the coutrt.

At the hearing of the case on Monday, one of the panelists, accused of threatening the justices of the Supreme Court, Alistair Tairo Nelson, blamed his comments in which he and Godwin Ako Gunn, threatened to kill the judges to a disease called “kpokpogbligbli.”

According to him, “kpokpogbligbli is an unknown disease that takes over a person’s body and controls what he says and does.

Nelson made the rather weird confession 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.”

Alistair Nelson, who shown remorse for his comments by apologizing to the judges strangely said he was also under the influence of the ‘kpokpogbligbli’ disease.

The said disease, which is in the Ghanaian Ga dialect, is not widely known to many.

He is said to have also stated that, the producers failed to give him the topics for discussion for the day hence his comments, adding that he was sorry and would not make such comments again.

On his part, the host of the show, Maase Salifu, popularly known as Mugabe, apologized for for his comments, also adding that his producer fell ill and there was no one to control him in the studio.

Mugabe also stated that he regrets his comments and pleaded with the judges to forgive him as he has been a journalist of good repute for 15 years.

The owners of the station, Harry Zakour, Edward Addo, Kwasi Attuah and Kwaky Bram Larbi, who were in court, after they failed to appear on July 12, pleaded for mercy and said the act was regretful.

Lawyer for the clients Nana Ato Dadzie, also pleaded for mercy.

The Court issued a warrant for the owners of the station, host of the station’s ‘Pampaso’ programme, and the panelists, who threatened to kill judges over their handling of a case on the credibility of the voters’ register to appear before them to answer for contempt charges.

Story By: Michael Creg Afful

The New Patriotic Party Parliamentary Candidate for Tema West Constituency Kingsley Carlos Ahenkorah has pledged his commitment to lobby for the upgrading of the Tema Polyclinic to a higher status if he is elected as MP and Nana Akufo-Addo is also given the made as President of Ghana in the upcoming general elections.

“I’m throwing this challenge to you, if you make Nana Akufo-Addo president of Ghana and if you make me also your Member of Parliament. And since Nana Addo is going to appoint Carlos a minister in his administration, I can tell you that this hospital will be upgraded,” he pledged.

According to Mr. Ahenkorah, “We will do everything in our power if we come to power to upgrade or better the lot of this hospital,” adding that he will ensure that all the available land at the hospital is developed.

Mr. Carlos Ahenkorah made the pledge on Monday when he donated some hospital equipments and consumables, which is valued at $50,000 to the hospital to ensure efficient healthcare delivering in the constituency.

Some of the equipments are examination couch, scanners, delivery beds, dustbins, sterilizers, and laboratory analyzers.

He explained that some of the items were donated to him by his friends in the United States of America and other parts of the world while the rest were purchased by himself.

Mr. Ahenkorah noted that he was able to convince his friends to donate the items to him because of his good lobbying skills.

The NPP Parliamentary Candidate, who will be 50 years old on Wednesday, 20 July, 2016, said he thought it will be expedient to use monies he will expend on his birthday celebrations to buy items and donate them to hospitals and educational institutions instead of throwing a big party for himself and friends.

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