A member of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) Communications Team, Stephen Atubiga and once a contemnor has said he advised the jailed host of Montie FM’s presenter, Salifu Maase aka Mugabe, Alistair Tairu Nelson and Ako Gunn to have a long term plan for their family before their sentencing.
Salifu Maase aka Mugabe, a presenter at the NDC affiliated radio station and two others Alistair Nelson and Godwin Ako Gunn, who were panelist on the Pampaso show were found guilty of scandalizing the court, defying and lowering the authority of the Supreme Court and bringing it into disrepute.
The two 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 Supreme Court handed a four months jail term each to the Montie FM panelists and the host aka Mugabe. They are to pay 10,000 GHS each by Thursday July 28, which failure to pay the fine will attract another one month imprisonment.
Speaking to Fiifi Banson on Anopa Kasapa on Kasapa 102.5 Fm, Stephen Atubiga who was sentenced to three days imprisonment after he had said that the governing NDC would disregard a verdict of the Court if it goes against the party, during the 2012 Election Petition hearing, stated that it was important that the three persons were forward looking in preparing adequately for their families before their sentencing ruling of their case because they couldn’t determine their fate ahead of time.
“In my case, I had a will done before my sentencing; I needed to prepare my family well because I knew I may not come back home. It is the same ideology with which I advised Mugabe, Alistair and Ako Gunn. I told them to be well prepared and that they shouldn’t think that; if you come back to your family it will just be the grace of God, but as to how long, they should put things in the right place before going to court on the day of the sentencing.”
