A member of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) Communications Team, Stephen Atubiga and once a contemnor, has in the wake of the sentencing of Salifu Maase aka Mugabe, a presenter at the NDC affiliated radio station and two others Alistair Nelson and Godwin Ako Gunn, re-countered his experience during the period he appeared before Justices of the Supreme Court and his subsequent sentencing.
He describes the situation where one appears before the law Lords as an unpleasant experience; saying whoever appears before the Supreme Court justices for contempt should never think he/she will win the case as Judges do as they please.
Stephen Atubiga, Stephen Atubiga who was sentenced to three days imprisonment after he said the governing NDC would disregard a verdict of the Court if it goes against the party, during the 2012 Election Petition hearing, stated that in his case he got his lawyer to prepare a will few days before his sentencing as he feared he would not come back home or at least he would be jailed 10 years imprisonment.
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.
Source: GhanaWeb
