Awuku’s ban is mild but a good start - Bar Association

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OH NDC 10 years ago

The court ought to have equally sanctioned President Mahama.

The court ought to have equally sanctioned President Mahama.
Nyansasem 10 years ago

Is he supporting selective justice or suppression of freedom of speech?

Is he supporting selective justice or suppression of freedom of speech?
SGT ANANI FIADZOE 10 years ago

Since the SC coughed the NPP idiots have run frightened cover. Even Ken Agyapong who speaks as if God is his servant is so he cannot even speak on his evil radio station.

Since the SC coughed the NPP idiots have run frightened cover. Even Ken Agyapong who speaks as if God is his servant is so he cannot even speak on his evil radio station.
blueprint 10 years ago

pepeni aboa. dog eating bastard

pepeni aboa. dog eating bastard
Micheal 10 years ago

Guy is smarter than you and I doubt Justice Atubuga would want to be anybody else..... And certainly not you with your strange mindset that how you pronounce a word has anything do with anything. As for what people eat, the l ...
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Guy is smarter than you and I doubt Justice Atubuga would want to be anybody else..... And certainly not you with your strange mindset that how you pronounce a word has anything do with anything. As for what people eat, the little said the better. Foolish post. You and all of your like can't d a thing.....ooooh why am I wasting my time on you!!!!!!!You are not intelligent.
OLD SOLDIER 10 years ago

Author: ORM...

"Even though the supreme court judges deferred to the lower courts to decide on Woyome, they fired a critical salvo against lawyers in the cases- Peasah Boadu for Waterville, Osafo Buabeng for Woyome, Tony ...
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Author: ORM...

"Even though the supreme court judges deferred to the lower courts to decide on Woyome, they fired a critical salvo against lawyers in the cases- Peasah Boadu for Waterville, Osafo Buabeng for Woyome, Tony Lithur for Austro Invest and maybe Ekow Awoonor who acted as sole mediator between parties with then AG Betty Mould Iddrissu.
The counsel for John Mahama,Tony Lithur, at the supreme court election petition case was part of the woyome scam that stole millions of Euros from Ghana. This is SICK- NDC must go".
CHAMPION 10 years ago

@blueprint,isualting can not solve the problem, just go and ascout that animal awuku to the supreme court,and see that you are just a dead dog before your whore perents.stupid fool.

@blueprint,isualting can not solve the problem, just go and ascout that animal awuku to the supreme court,and see that you are just a dead dog before your whore perents.stupid fool.
ADJEI BEDIAKO 10 years ago

MR. OR MRS BLUEPRINT, THIS TIME ROUND WRITE YOUR REAL NAME AND IF YOU ARE REAL MAN OR WOMAN APPEND YOUR ADDRESS AND YOU WILL SEE YOURSELF URINATING IN THE SUPREME COURTROOM. GO AND ASK MR. AWUKU WHAT IT FEELS LIKE. THE LIKES ...
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MR. OR MRS BLUEPRINT, THIS TIME ROUND WRITE YOUR REAL NAME AND IF YOU ARE REAL MAN OR WOMAN APPEND YOUR ADDRESS AND YOU WILL SEE YOURSELF URINATING IN THE SUPREME COURTROOM. GO AND ASK MR. AWUKU WHAT IT FEELS LIKE. THE LIKES OF YOU HAVE UNCONTROLLOED TONGUES AND YOU ARE BEING GIVEN NOTICE THAT POLITICAL ALLEGIANCE DOES NOT GIVE LICENCE TO ANYONE TO POLUTE THE AIR. SO BLUEPRINT WATCH OUT.
UNDER COVER 10 years ago

Get lost, so called SGT it look as if you live on an unknown planet

Get lost, so called SGT it look as if you live on an unknown planet
Ideal 10 years ago

There is no where in the democratic world that a supreme judge should threaten Press.

There is no where in the democratic world that a supreme judge should threaten Press.
PRINCE KWASI ADADE 10 years ago

AUTHOR: EBO QUANSAH---------------Dear reader, forgive me for diverting from the topic I promised yesterday. I have been compelled by Jerry Rawlings’ outburst in Nigeria about corruption, as if he himself is a saint. I am c ...
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AUTHOR: EBO QUANSAH---------------Dear reader, forgive me for diverting from the topic I promised yesterday. I have been compelled by Jerry Rawlings’ outburst in Nigeria about corruption, as if he himself is a saint. I am compelled to do this expose on the former junta head for those who do not know his role in promoting corruption as a national concept. Read on!
In June 1979, eight top military officers, including three former heads of state, were lined up and executed at the Teshie Military Firing range in two batches. Gen. Ignatius Kutu Acheampong, Gen. Frederick William Kwasi Akuffo, Gen. Robert Kotei, Lt-Gen. Akwasi Amankwaa Afrifa, Rear Admiral Joy Amedume, Air Vice-Marshall George Yaw Boakye, Emmanuel K. Utuka and Colonel Roger Felli were accused of corrupting the body politic.
In an interview with New Nation, a monthly magazine circulating in Nigeria and now defunct, the Chairman of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council, which supervised over the most famous case of extra-judicial killings in the history of the political evolution of Ghana, justified the action of his military junta as a necessary action to rid the body politic of corruption.
“They were jumbo-sized armed robbers whose killings left the world smelling nicer,” Flt-Lt. Rawlings was quoted by the magazine as saying in explanation.
Jerry Rawlings said the officers had to be killed, “because Ghana was faced with their type of thievery breed of criminals who were worse than Nigeria’s armed robbers” in the 1970s.
“Now, I’ll tell you what we have here. We have a breed that is, perhaps, worse than your armed robbers,” he told reporters of the New Nation in an exclusive interview. “They are the pen robbers. These species of vermin have for long perpetrated corruption with impunity.
“They have not only bled the nation white, but as a result of their thievery, Ghana has suffered hunger, loss of national spirit, loss of pride and respect in the military uniform. So, as you can see, while Nigerians have perceived their main social problems to be the proliferation of six Naira armed robbers, we, in Ghana, think that our problem is that of people who take widow’s mite from a bankrupt nation.”
In the words of the ex-junta head: “While you (Nigeria) content yourself at the Bar Beach by watching the executions of mal-adjusted labourers, mechanics or clerks, we in Ghana, have killed the jumbo armed robbers, call them generals or brigadiers – whose going to leave the world smelling sweeter.”
One interesting thing about this claim is that Jerry Rawlings and his righteous AFRC members could not account for monies lodged in AFRC Account 48, which was specially created to lodge huge monies paid by businessmen and other persons and institutions found guilty by a so-called people court to have corrupted the system. Monies from seized goods auctioned to the public at so-called control prices were also lodged in the account.
When President Hilla Limann took power after the AFRC had left the scene on September 24, 1979, the new Head of State complained that there was nothing in the coffers, insinuating that the famous Account 48 could not be traced.
When Flt-Lt. Rawlings, who had refused to accept the new government’s offer to go on course abroad, was questioned on the disappearance of the huge lodgings in the account, he replied that he was not an accountant. Incidentally, the fate of PNDC Account 48, established by the second junta led by the same person, has not been accounted for as you read this piece.
One of the most interesting developments in Ghana’s political evolution was the decision to abolish the General Certificate of Examinations -Ordinary and Advanced levels- by the Provisional National Defence Council. The main reason given was that the old educational system had favoured only the children of the elite class.
At a time ordinary folks of the land were enrolling their children in what became known as the Junior and Senior Secondary schools, whose certificates -BECE and SCCE- were not recognised beyond the four corners of the country, Jerry Rawlings enrolled his children at the expensive Ghana International School in Accra to read subjects that qualified them to sit for the GCE Ordinary and the Advanced levels his PNDC administration had prohibited the mass of Ghanaian children from.
I do not believe corruption is only putting state money in one’s pocket. Exploiting state resources for one’s advantage could even be a worse form of corruption. That is why I have an axe to grind with Jerry Rawlings for enrolling all his children abroad to study with the GCE Ordinary and Advanced levels, acquired outside the formal sector in the country.
What I call Jerry’s Stupid Schools has debased education up to the tertiary level, where lottery numbers, other than real academic work, determines qualification at the first degree level.
To add insult to injury, when asked to tell Ghanaians how he was funding the education of all the three children -Ezanator, YaaAsantewaa and Kimathi- in expensive universities in Britain and Ireland, Jerry Rawlings looked at Ghanaians in the face and answered that unknown benefactors were picking up the bills for their fees.
The Almighty is a kind Lord. It emerged that companies the state of Ghana was dealing with and which were milking Ghana dry, were picking up the bills of Jerry Rawlings’ children. And such a person has the audacity to complain about leaders being corrupt.
I dare state that corruption was elevated into an art under Jerry Rawlings. The circumstances under which he transformed himself from a military dictator into a civil constitutional President smells of corruption all the way to the Castle.
After eleven and a half years of the ‘Gospel According to Jerry Rawlings,’ a period he himself identified as the ‘culture of silence’, Jerry Rawlings and those who claim to believe in him used the resources of state to convert his military oligarchy and the entire governance system into a political party. With the Electoral Commission and the entire process under his thumb, Jerry Rawlings exchanged his military garb for a description as Constitutional President of the Republic of Ghana. God Almighty should remain where he is.
The eight year administration he led, as Constitutional President of this Republic, eulogised corruption as a state-sponsored event. State asserts were transferred to cronies under the guise of divestiture. As you read this piece, Nsawam Cannery, one of the flagship projects of the now defunct Ghana Industrial Holding Corporation, belongs to Caridem, a company floated by Mrs. Rawlings’ 31st December Women’s Movement, in a purchasing agreement that parceled the company to Caridem for a pittance.
Under the Government of the National Democratic Congress Mark One, corruption festered on a large scale. It would take volumes to chronicle corruption under the NDC. But four prominent issues stand out. Getting to the end of the first term of office, newspapers that had been freed from the bondage of the culture of silence began chronicling evidence of corrupt deals by leading members of the regime.
In 1996, the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice investigated one matter and established massive corrupt deals against Ibrahim Adam, then Minister of Agriculture, Colonel E.M. Osei Owusu, a former Minister of the Interior, P.V. Obeng, a Presidential Staffer, and Dr. Adjei Marfo, a Chief Executive Officer of a state-run company.
Instead of prosecuting them, the Government of Saint Rawlings rather issued a While Paper exonerating the corrupt elements, and rather indicted the media for highlighting the issue.
In Britain, Mabey and Johnson was prosecuted not too long ago for corruptly influencing Ghanaian politicians between 1994 and 1999 to gain bridge contracts, The news in these contracts is that barely one year after completing two bridges in Ghana, including one over River Oti, the Ghana Government had to contract experts from Britain to repair them as they threatened to cave in.
In 2002, the former Managing Director of Ghana Rubber Estates Limited, Mr. Etienne Arthur Marie Popeler, told an Accra Fast Track High Court that he gave millions of dollars to Mr. Dan Abodakpi, then Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Ms. Shirley Ayittey, then Treasurer of the 31st December Women’s Movement, in bribes before his French company, SIPH, could secure GREL.
The case of Ms. Cotton, an unemployed American, secured $20 million of scarce state cash from compromised state officials, ostensibly to grow rice for Ghanaians at Aveyime in the Battor area of the Volta Region. Even when Ghana’s Ambassador to the United States had sent a warning letter about the background of Ms. Cotton, and intimating that she was incapable of undertaking the task, state officials paid the money. As it turned out, the main motivating factor was the cut they all stood to make.
If corruption is endemic in the body politic after the so-called June 4, uprising, the genesis could be traced to Jerry Rawlings who executed eight Ghanaians officials on unproven trivial charges, and out-doored full- blown corruption as a state policy.
In other exposé next week, I intend to draw the link between the free for all looting that assails the body politic in the Mills-Mahama regime, and the adventure of Jerry John Rawlings as Head of State of this Republic. I shall return!
Plain Truth, Texas 10 years ago

For selecting only Awuku and dropping the Ndc surrogate, who rather said more serious words to warrant Awuku's retort, is still a travesty of justice. Until the other discussant- NDC surrogate on the program is also hauled be ...
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For selecting only Awuku and dropping the Ndc surrogate, who rather said more serious words to warrant Awuku's retort, is still a travesty of justice. Until the other discussant- NDC surrogate on the program is also hauled before the SC, Awuku's choice of Selective bias of the SC still stands!
okofo 10 years ago

Rawlings arm-robbed Ghana. ONLY docile individuals will disagree with that. Punishment awaits that BASTARD!!!

"Any one who kills by the sword, will DIE by the sword". This is not coming from me, but from the ONE above ALL ...
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Rawlings arm-robbed Ghana. ONLY docile individuals will disagree with that. Punishment awaits that BASTARD!!!

"Any one who kills by the sword, will DIE by the sword". This is not coming from me, but from the ONE above ALL!!!

Bravo Prince Kwasi Adade!!Return bro!!
SGT ANANI FIADZOE 10 years ago

Society does not need vermin like Awuku.

Society does not need vermin like Awuku.
EMMA 10 years ago

A GOOD START INDEED. IN MY HUMBLE OPINION I THINK THE NINE WISE MEN OF OUR LAND SHOULD CRACK THE SWIPE EQUALLY SO THAT NO PARTY WILL FEEL BAD. I THINK SAMMY AWUKU DESERVE THAT PUNISHMENT BUT THE COURT SHOULD BE REMINDED THAT ...
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A GOOD START INDEED. IN MY HUMBLE OPINION I THINK THE NINE WISE MEN OF OUR LAND SHOULD CRACK THE SWIPE EQUALLY SO THAT NO PARTY WILL FEEL BAD. I THINK SAMMY AWUKU DESERVE THAT PUNISHMENT BUT THE COURT SHOULD BE REMINDED THAT ON THAT SAME DAY A LOT OF THE RULING PARTY COMMUTATORS MADE SOME DANGEROUS STATEMENT.
ABOUT GBA I THINK THAT THEY HAVE A LOT SWEEPING TO DO IN THE COURTS
kwadwo bronya 10 years ago

IF ALL WHAT I AM READING IS TRUE THEN ITS SELECTIVE JUSTICE.WHAT IS GOOD FOR THE GOOSE IS EQUALLY GOOD FOR THE GANDER. OR THEY WANT TO COW A PARTY AGAINST THE OTHER WHICH IS ALSO NOT JUST.

IF ALL WHAT I AM READING IS TRUE THEN ITS SELECTIVE JUSTICE.WHAT IS GOOD FOR THE GOOSE IS EQUALLY GOOD FOR THE GANDER. OR THEY WANT TO COW A PARTY AGAINST THE OTHER WHICH IS ALSO NOT JUST.
Jato Kaleo 10 years ago

What Mahama said was worse than Sam Awuku said. Mahama was reported to have made a statement that the judges have no other way than to rule that he won the elections fairly and transparently. Most Ghanaians do not believe he ...
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What Mahama said was worse than Sam Awuku said. Mahama was reported to have made a statement that the judges have no other way than to rule that he won the elections fairly and transparently. Most Ghanaians do not believe he is ordained by God to rule.
THE TRUTH 10 years ago

THE COURT SHOULD HAVE JAILED HIM HE IS TOO KNOWN A SMALL BOY WITH BIG MOUTH WHO KNOWS NOTHING BUT PRETENDS THAT HE KNOWS LET HIM WAIT GREATER THINGS THAN THIS IS ON THE WAY FOR HIM AND ALL HIS LIKES IN THE NPP

THE COURT SHOULD HAVE JAILED HIM HE IS TOO KNOWN A SMALL BOY WITH BIG MOUTH WHO KNOWS NOTHING BUT PRETENDS THAT HE KNOWS LET HIM WAIT GREATER THINGS THAN THIS IS ON THE WAY FOR HIM AND ALL HIS LIKES IN THE NPP
Yaw B 10 years ago

Is that all you could say? I listened to Awuku and there was nothing in his comments that was insulting or prejudicial. He only said it was unfair and hypocritical for Atuguba to single out Daily Guide for condemnation when a ...
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Is that all you could say? I listened to Awuku and there was nothing in his comments that was insulting or prejudicial. He only said it was unfair and hypocritical for Atuguba to single out Daily Guide for condemnation when almost all the newspapers were doing the same. Let us be each others keeper.
Sense Prefect 10 years ago

AWUKU AND MPIANI ARE NOT GOOD AMBASSADORS FOR JAMASI.

AWUKU AND MPIANI ARE NOT GOOD AMBASSADORS FOR JAMASI.
Concerned Citizen 10 years ago

Ghana is an "interesting" place where a supreme court justice can zip a citizen's lip. Wake up people!

Ghana is an "interesting" place where a supreme court justice can zip a citizen's lip. Wake up people!
The real Truth 10 years ago

Hanging him in public would've been a better example to the Asante/Akyem fools

Hanging him in public would've been a better example to the Asante/Akyem fools
ACRI Mate 10 years ago

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SYLVANUS 10 years ago

WHY DOESNT GHANA WEB TELL YOU NOT TO HIJACK THIS PAGE WITH YOUR SINGULAR TRASH?

WHY DOESNT GHANA WEB TELL YOU NOT TO HIJACK THIS PAGE WITH YOUR SINGULAR TRASH?
ACRI Mate 10 years ago

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ACRI Mate 10 years ago

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ACRI Mate 10 years ago

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ACRI Mate 10 years ago

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ACRI Mate 10 years ago

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ACRI Mate 10 years ago

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ACRI Mate 10 years ago

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ACRI Mate 10 years ago

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ACRI Mate 10 years ago

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ACRI Mate 10 years ago

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ACRI Mate 10 years ago

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Asante/Akim fools are endowed with natural resources which you filthy smelling ewe man is enjoying.
ACRI Mate 10 years ago

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ACRI Mate 10 years ago

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ATADANA 10 years ago

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GHANA WEB YOU ARE IN THE HABIT OF TELLING SOME PEOPLE NOT TO FLUSH THEIR COMMENTS ON SOME PAGES. THIS IS THE BEST OPPORTUNITY TO ISSUE THE INSTRUCTIONS TO THE SO CALLED ACRI MATE
K Gyamfi 10 years ago

I thought the GBA will stand up to our right to free speech. For me Sammy Awuku did not err for the justices are not above reproach. The SC has been selective as Sammy Awuku rightly pointed out. I think when the justices refl ...
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I thought the GBA will stand up to our right to free speech. For me Sammy Awuku did not err for the justices are not above reproach. The SC has been selective as Sammy Awuku rightly pointed out. I think when the justices reflect on the public humiliation of Sammy Awuku they should realise that they have been unfair. On the same programme that Sammy made his now infamous comments, one Dela also made a disparaging remarks on the SC but Atuguba and co never heard that.
okofo 10 years ago

This Atuguba is inciting anger for his blatant hypocrisy!! He MUST wise up!!

This Atuguba is inciting anger for his blatant hypocrisy!! He MUST wise up!!
SULEY 10 years ago

ATUGUBA HATES NPP SO MUCH, WHATS WRONG WITH HIM, WHAT HE DID TO AWUKU WAS SELECTIVE, THATS A DANGEROUSE PRECEDENT, HE IS THE ONE CREATING CONFUSION IN GHANA

ATUGUBA HATES NPP SO MUCH, WHATS WRONG WITH HIM, WHAT HE DID TO AWUKU WAS SELECTIVE, THATS A DANGEROUSE PRECEDENT, HE IS THE ONE CREATING CONFUSION IN GHANA
SULEY 10 years ago

SIMPLY PUT, ATUGUBA HATES NPP, WHAT A JUDGE

SIMPLY PUT, ATUGUBA HATES NPP, WHAT A JUDGE
okofo 10 years ago

The jugdes are not above our laws, so if they err, citizens should be able to criticize their twisted judgement and communicate their opinions freely.

Which of Awuku's comment was not truthful? Mahama has made many comtem ...
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The jugdes are not above our laws, so if they err, citizens should be able to criticize their twisted judgement and communicate their opinions freely.

Which of Awuku's comment was not truthful? Mahama has made many comtemptible statements, sometimes tantamount to intimidating the judges and rubbishing the case before the court, and that is no secret. Can the judges give us any reasons why Mahama who's even a party to the court case got away with punishment, but Awuku did not?

This is an open court. One does NOT need law degree to identify bias when one observes same in court. If the judges are as honorable as they are addressed, Mr John Mahama MUST also be punished appropriately by them for his irresponsible statements, that the "supreme court has no choice but affirm his presidency" and also "G-d ordained him as the president".

The law MUST be applied impatially, otherwise DON'T apply it, because doing so impatially breeds state of conflict and insecurity!!
nkk 10 years ago

Yes .

Yes .
DAN 10 years ago

you see judges in america wearing wigs?????

you see judges in america wearing wigs?????
SANDRA OFOSUHENE- JAPAN 10 years ago

FREE SPEECH IS ABOUT CONTRIBUTING A MEANINGFUL IDEAS AND SUGGESTION AN ALTERNATIVE WAYS OF MATTERS OF INTEREST. IT IS NOT ABOUT FOOLISH TALKS AND INSULTING OUR ELDERS IF WE DISAGREE WITH THEM. WE CAN STAND UP AGAINT ANY OPPRE ...
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FREE SPEECH IS ABOUT CONTRIBUTING A MEANINGFUL IDEAS AND SUGGESTION AN ALTERNATIVE WAYS OF MATTERS OF INTEREST. IT IS NOT ABOUT FOOLISH TALKS AND INSULTING OUR ELDERS IF WE DISAGREE WITH THEM. WE CAN STAND UP AGAINT ANY OPPRESSION IN A GOOD MANNER AND MATURITY. GHANAIANS NEED SERIOUS EDUCATION TO THAT EFFECT.
Ofosuhene 10 years ago

Sandra Ofosuhene, I hope you don't understand what is freedom of speech.

Sandra Ofosuhene, I hope you don't understand what is freedom of speech.
Omanbapa Osei Oyeadieyie 10 years ago

Ofosuhene, the problem you have with freedom of speech is your literal translation of the phrase.

Facit: FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS NOT LIMITLESS. IT IS LIMITED BUT THE BOUNDARY IS FUZZY - DEPENDS ONLY ON SITUATION.

The fact ...
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Ofosuhene, the problem you have with freedom of speech is your literal translation of the phrase.

Facit: FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS NOT LIMITLESS. IT IS LIMITED BUT THE BOUNDARY IS FUZZY - DEPENDS ONLY ON SITUATION.

The fact is while you are free to say whatever you want to say, don't forget that you'll be saying something you're not supposed to.

Simple example: every player has freedom of speech, but if a white player calls an African player "Nigger" or uses any racist term on the Afican during the match, the white guy has big trouble: he may be suspended.

Similarly, you are free to speak, but if you insult or interrpt judges, you are exceeding the limits of freedom of speech during a court proceeding.

For your homework: Look around for more cases to help you understand what FoS really means.
princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

An elderly woman goes to the doctor for a checkup. She says, "Doctor, I haven't had sex for years now, and I was wondering how I can increase my husband's sex drive."

The doctor asks, "Have you tried to give him Viagra?"
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An elderly woman goes to the doctor for a checkup. She says, "Doctor, I haven't had sex for years now, and I was wondering how I can increase my husband's sex drive."

The doctor asks, "Have you tried to give him Viagra?"

The lady frowns. "Doctor, I can't even get him to take aspirin when he has a headache."
The doctor says, "Crush the Viagra into a powder. When you are giving him coffee, stir it in. He won't notice a thing."

Weeks later the old lady returns. The doctor asks, "How did it go?"

"Terrible, doctor, terrible. I did as you said, and he got up and ripped his clothes off right there. We made mad love on the table, and it was the best sex I've had in 25 years."

"Then what is the problem?"

"Well," she says. "I can't ever show my face in the Papaye restaurant again because all the plates broke and we have been banned"
Okoe 10 years ago

Start jailing offenders of the Bench and the public will listen. Look at what is happening on our roads, absolute indiscipline. Reckless and bad behaviour.

Start jailing offenders of the Bench and the public will listen. Look at what is happening on our roads, absolute indiscipline. Reckless and bad behaviour.
AWUNI 10 years ago

L0OK AT A WHOLE BAR ASSOCIATION SUPPORTING SUPPRESSION OF ONES FREEDOM OF SPEECH. A WHOLE BAR ASSOCIATION SIDING WITH ONE SIDED JUDGEMENT.A WHOLE BAR ASSOCIATION SUPPORTING SKAPE GOATING. OH GOD

L0OK AT A WHOLE BAR ASSOCIATION SUPPORTING SUPPRESSION OF ONES FREEDOM OF SPEECH. A WHOLE BAR ASSOCIATION SIDING WITH ONE SIDED JUDGEMENT.A WHOLE BAR ASSOCIATION SUPPORTING SKAPE GOATING. OH GOD
JOE 10 years ago

WHAT ABOUT THE NDC FOOLS WHO TALKS ABOUT THE COURT CASE ON RADIOS? WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH THEM? IS IT JUST FOR NPP? KWASIA, AWUKU WAS AND IS RIGHT, ATUGUBA AND OTHER JUDGES ARE SELECTIVE, NO TWO WAYS ABOUT IT AND NOTHI ...
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WHAT ABOUT THE NDC FOOLS WHO TALKS ABOUT THE COURT CASE ON RADIOS? WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH THEM? IS IT JUST FOR NPP? KWASIA, AWUKU WAS AND IS RIGHT, ATUGUBA AND OTHER JUDGES ARE SELECTIVE, NO TWO WAYS ABOUT IT AND NOTHING CAN CHANGE WHO WATCHING'S MIND.
James 10 years ago

First casualty of foolish talk politicians. The list will grow and very soon there will be some sanity in the media.

First casualty of foolish talk politicians. The list will grow and very soon there will be some sanity in the media.
JOMO KENYATTA 10 years ago

I SHALL BE VERY HAPPY IF THE GHANA BAR ASSOCITION DOES NOT MAKE COMMENTS ON ANYTHING HAPPENING IN GHANA. THE ASSOCIATION HAS SERIOUSLY COMPROMISED ITSELF AND WHAT IT STANDS FOR BY ALIGNING ITSELF AND GETTING INVOLVED IN POLIT ...
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I SHALL BE VERY HAPPY IF THE GHANA BAR ASSOCITION DOES NOT MAKE COMMENTS ON ANYTHING HAPPENING IN GHANA. THE ASSOCIATION HAS SERIOUSLY COMPROMISED ITSELF AND WHAT IT STANDS FOR BY ALIGNING ITSELF AND GETTING INVOLVED IN POLITICS. QUITE CLEARLY IT IS NO LONGER CREDIBLE IN GHANAIAN SOCIETY. WHAT DID THEY SAY WHEN POLITICIANS WERE MAKING PREJUDICIAL STATEMENTS ON THE COURT CASE. SHOULDNT IT AS AN ASOCIATION HAVE INTERVENED AND CALLED ATTENNTION TO THE CITIZENS THAT THEY WERE THREADING ON CONTEMPTIOUS PATHS. THEY ARE NOW SHAMEFULLY COMING OUT TO SAY WHAT IS OBVIOUS. MEMBERS OF THE BAR ASSOCIATION SHOULD KNOW THAT THE RESPECT THEY USED TO HAVE HAS COMPLETELY EVAPORATED. SOME LAWYERS WERE ALSO INVOLVED IN TALKING TRASH ABOUT THE COURT CASE AND I WOULD HAVE BEEN HAPPIER IF IT WAS ONE OF THEM WHO APPEARED BEFORE THE COURT YESTERDAY. THE ASSOCIATION IS PART OF THE REASON FOR THE IMPUNITY WHICH IS TEARING GHANA APART. I DONT KNOW WHO TAUGHT THEM THAT LAWYERS SHOULD BECOME MEMBERS OF A POLITICAL PARTY. SHAME ON THE ASSOCIATION. THEY SHOULD NOT GIVE ANY COMMENTS, WE DONT NEED THEIR OPINIONS ON ANYTHING. IT SEEMS THAT EVEN THOSE WHO TEACH AT THE LAW SCHOOL, INCLUDING FOA AMOANING IS MORE AN NDC POLITICIANS THAN A LAW LECTURER SO HE MIGHT HAVE BEEN SKEWING HIS LECTURES IN THE DIRECTION OF POLITICS RATHER THAN THE SUBSTANCE OF LAW. SHAME ON ALL OF THEM
TOO SOON 10 years ago

VERY SOON GHANA WEB ITSELF WILL HAVE TO FACE THE SUPREME COURT FOR ALLOWING ALL OF US THE LATITUDE TO WRITE OUR INSULTS AND RUBBISH

VERY SOON GHANA WEB ITSELF WILL HAVE TO FACE THE SUPREME COURT FOR ALLOWING ALL OF US THE LATITUDE TO WRITE OUR INSULTS AND RUBBISH
WELLINGTON 10 years ago

THE KIND OF COMMENTS I AM READING HERE MAKES ME BELIEVE THAT THERE ARE TOO MANY UNEDUCATED AND UNINTELLIGENT CITIZENS WHO TRY TO COMMENT ON IMPORTANT ISSUES.

THE KIND OF COMMENTS I AM READING HERE MAKES ME BELIEVE THAT THERE ARE TOO MANY UNEDUCATED AND UNINTELLIGENT CITIZENS WHO TRY TO COMMENT ON IMPORTANT ISSUES.
Janet - Tema 10 years ago

The TV stations who give commentaries after court proceedings should also stop because some of the people they empanel for discussions are biased and play to the gallery. Thank you.

The TV stations who give commentaries after court proceedings should also stop because some of the people they empanel for discussions are biased and play to the gallery. Thank you.
DASAANA 10 years ago

Justice Atugeba did all these in the name of peace which non-peace lovers do not appreciate. But Allah is watching.Indeed He has directed this.

Justice Atugeba did all these in the name of peace which non-peace lovers do not appreciate. But Allah is watching.Indeed He has directed this.
k- de- k 10 years ago

What about the comments made by N.D.C supporters including your president.In Acheamong's time the Ghana Bar ASSOCIATION was very vocal but from the time the self acclaimed saint took over they kept mute.They are behaving as i ...
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What about the comments made by N.D.C supporters including your president.In Acheamong's time the Ghana Bar ASSOCIATION was very vocal but from the time the self acclaimed saint took over they kept mute.They are behaving as if they are not lawyers.Atuguba is a hypocrite and selective.Ex-convicts and lawyers who helped foreign companies to dupe the state are defending people in court.The Bar Association and the legal council and the supreme court see nothing wrong with it . What a state we are in?A country where people see evil as good and good as evil.That is why a party like N.D.C. has followers.

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