The Supreme Court will today hand down the punishment it may deem appropriate to the Montie FM contemnors who had already pleaded liable for their actions and inactions which were purported to lower the authority of the court radio programme. Mr. Salifu Maase alias Mugabe (host), Messrs Alistair Tairo Nelson and Godwin Ako Gunn (panelists) together with the directors and shareholders of the Accra-based radio station, and the owner of the station were convicted by the court last Monday, but Ms. Justice Sophia Akuffo, President of the five-member panel of judges deferred the sentence to today, Wednesday, July 27, 2016.
The convicts were cited for making contemptuous pronouncements threatening the lives of the judges who heard the case of Messrs Abu Ramadan and Evans Nimako versus the Electoral Commission and Attorney-General, on the cleaning of the current register of voters. They were, therefore, asked to show cause why the Supreme Court should not commit them to jail for; Scandalizing the court and defying and lowering the authority of the court, bringing the authority of the court into disrepute. The Directors of Network Broadcasting Company Limited, owners of Montie FM are, Messrs Edward Addo, Kwasi Atuah and Kwaku Bram Larbi (secretary) as well as Harry Zadour, owner of the frequency. They rendered unqualified apologies to the court after listening to the recording of the programme re-played in the court room at the instance of Mr. Justice Anin Yeboah, and pleaded for clemency alongside Maase, Alistair and Ako Gunn.
Source: The Ghanaian Times
