Atuguba must be sent to the Hague for attempted genocide. This is because if Nana Addo had not diffused tension after the Supreme Court reversed verdict, one could have imagined the chaos that would have engulfed the nation. ... read full comment
Atuguba must be sent to the Hague for attempted genocide. This is because if Nana Addo had not diffused tension after the Supreme Court reversed verdict, one could have imagined the chaos that would have engulfed the nation. No wonder after the verdict persons like Tsatsu, Pratt, the Veep and the NDC gurus were still not happy. Not knowing the whole judgment was clandestinely reversed. Infact the thing was stage managed with organizations like IEA, CODEO, Christian Council of Ghana( Christian Hypocrites) and Hassan Ayariga and his followers playing active roles. It is a big shame.
Daniel Kwadwo Bimpeh 10 years ago
The 5 justices who ruled and denied justice have but brought not trust in the judiciary system of Ghana. They are corrupt indeed and have instituted great violent in 2016 election. Why the calls for reforms in the Ec? Which m ... read full comment
The 5 justices who ruled and denied justice have but brought not trust in the judiciary system of Ghana. They are corrupt indeed and have instituted great violent in 2016 election. Why the calls for reforms in the Ec? Which means the petitioners were right and won the case. There should be no reform if SC has upheld Mahama. No JUSTICE, NO PEACE. The war is ahead. Asem beba da bi.
USMAN 10 years ago
Immediately after the supreme court verdict persons like Tsatsu, Pratt and the Veep were still not feeling comfortable, why? This is because they realised it was a reversed verdict well orchestrated and stage managed by the I ... read full comment
Immediately after the supreme court verdict persons like Tsatsu, Pratt and the Veep were still not feeling comfortable, why? This is because they realised it was a reversed verdict well orchestrated and stage managed by the IEA, CODEO, Christian Council of Ghana( Christian Hypocrites) and Hassan Ayariga and Co. They were the people who encouraged Nana Addo not to seek judicial review so that any bogus( reverse) verdict that would be delivered would be swallowed hook, line and sinker.
Mabia 10 years ago
You and Usman, did you read the review! Read again or move away and stop displaying your ignorance.
You and Usman, did you read the review! Read again or move away and stop displaying your ignorance.
Mohammed Dimbie 10 years ago
The Supreme Court has put paid to Akufo-Addo's nonsense; and you are here saying what?
If he is a man with two balls between his short thighs, let him say "fi" and we shall see what will happen to him.
Is justice only p ... read full comment
The Supreme Court has put paid to Akufo-Addo's nonsense; and you are here saying what?
If he is a man with two balls between his short thighs, let him say "fi" and we shall see what will happen to him.
Is justice only perceived through the jaundiced eyes of you, these NPP fools and cowards?
Wiafe 10 years ago
Why are you using threats and intimidation? It shows the level of your IQ? Next time argue your case sensibly devoid of the typical buga buga from your ilk.
Why are you using threats and intimidation? It shows the level of your IQ? Next time argue your case sensibly devoid of the typical buga buga from your ilk.
TOGBEGA NYAMETSOLA AMEVI 10 years ago
Y3 NIM WOM FRE TETE. Haaaa
Y3 NIM WOM FRE TETE. Haaaa
Okonko palm 10 years ago
This is an in depth analysis of the judgement of the 3 justices of the SC.Certainly I agree that the reasoning mechanism used by the three judges underpinned their thought process and conclusions.Justice Atuguda and Justice A ... read full comment
This is an in depth analysis of the judgement of the 3 justices of the SC.Certainly I agree that the reasoning mechanism used by the three judges underpinned their thought process and conclusions.Justice Atuguda and Justice Adinyira used what has become accepted in constitutional interpretation as expansive reasoning.It implies not only prudential balancing but takes into consideration the role of equity because of our obligation to international Human Right obligations.Treaties like civil and political rights under the UN Charter must all influence our interpretation of the constitution.
In many jurisdiction these days including the advance democracies their constitution is subsumed under human right treaties because of the importance attached to the right of the individual.So to make a ruling which does not take into consideration these concepts can not be right.Justice Ansah dwelt on the word Shall and used the dictionary definition to rule that it is imperative and therefore mandatory which he can not derogate from.Probably it did not occur to him that there is no absolutes when it come to judiciary interpretation.Even more serious is the fact that he placed a constitutional duty above a constitutional right in clear breach of the rules of equity and the doctrine of competing claims under human rights laws.
Justice Ansah used the strict construction rules which means interpreting the Constitution based on a literal and narrow definition of the language without reference to the differences in conditions when the Constitution was written and modern conditions, and societal changes.
This is in contrast to "broad construction"reasoning used by Justice Atuguda and Adinyira which looks at the "intent" of the framers' language and expands and interprets the language extensively to meet current standards of human conduct and complexity of society.
This is the classical way of looking at constitutional interpretation as a result of our obligation to signed treaties. If Justice Ansah had succeeded or been in the majority opinion,it would have made elections in Ghana impossible because a mistake like forgetting to sign will result in annulment of all the results.
Kwame 10 years ago
I am a Ghanaian and a lawyer practising in England. I am not in a position at this present time to put forward a legal response. I hope to do so later. However I cannot see how a court in England, in the face of the evidence ... read full comment
I am a Ghanaian and a lawyer practising in England. I am not in a position at this present time to put forward a legal response. I hope to do so later. However I cannot see how a court in England, in the face of the evidence that came to light during the proceedings, could have upheld the December 2012 Elections.
Carl 10 years ago
That is not true of England.The inconsistencies alone in the petitioners case and the lack of witnesses to support their pink sheet evidence would have thrown the case out as a non starter.Mislabelled evidence on pint sheet w ... read full comment
That is not true of England.The inconsistencies alone in the petitioners case and the lack of witnesses to support their pink sheet evidence would have thrown the case out as a non starter.Mislabelled evidence on pint sheet will fail the standard of the evidential burden more so proof.We must bear in mind that the onus of proof lies with the petitioners and the burden to discharge that.They failed miserably.
Ghanaba 10 years ago
I ask you this simple question Carl.How many witnesses did Afari Gyan consulted before declaring the results originated from the face of the pink sheets?
I ask you this simple question Carl.How many witnesses did Afari Gyan consulted before declaring the results originated from the face of the pink sheets?
SayoO 10 years ago
You practice law in England, do you? And you are confident to compare the structures in place to conduct elections in England to that in Ghana? You compare the literacy and levels of educational attainment, historical practic ... read full comment
You practice law in England, do you? And you are confident to compare the structures in place to conduct elections in England to that in Ghana? You compare the literacy and levels of educational attainment, historical practice etc? the people who volunteer as election officers, some of them have been doing it for so many years, it's almost second nature.
It is sheer hyprocrisy on the part of the judges and the NPP. That cannot prove fraud and so pick on clear perennial deficiencies in our elections to denigrate the process. Shame
Mabia 10 years ago
Please stop this. You read the judgements and also some of the reviews in this thread. Note that the dissenting judges also did not give the case to the petition and after all the ultra strict application of the rules of con ... read full comment
Please stop this. You read the judgements and also some of the reviews in this thread. Note that the dissenting judges also did not give the case to the petition and after all the ultra strict application of the rules of construction, recommended rerun
Why do you people most time think because you are out there,Those here are stupid.read all
Apatupr3 10 years ago
To justify the indefensible. Even as laypersons (untrained legal minds),we could easily tell that Bawumiah was an unreliable witness;but this judge,inspite of his "clueless" and woeful performance on the witness stand,heaped ... read full comment
To justify the indefensible. Even as laypersons (untrained legal minds),we could easily tell that Bawumiah was an unreliable witness;but this judge,inspite of his "clueless" and woeful performance on the witness stand,heaped praises on him while 'dumping' on Dr. Afari Gyan,and impugning his hard-won intergrity.
Jcs Ansah 'juiced' the evidence the petitioners presented and made it seem
relevant when this was, in fact,not what we heard from Bawumiah himself.
Given the the heavy-lifting he did for the petitioners,I am surprised he chose not to endorse Bawuniah`s silly and ludicurous contention that a blank on the the pink sheet should be read as a zero! No wonder the NPP was confident of winning this bogus petition.
Chabba 10 years ago
Ata Kofi you are an ignoramus of LAW so stop poisoning the 'less learned minds' with your invincible ignorance!
Ata Kofi you are an ignoramus of LAW so stop poisoning the 'less learned minds' with your invincible ignorance!
Jojo Hammond, New Jersey 10 years ago
Chabba, what do you base your statement on? Kofi wrote a piece, stated his point of view and asked readers to ponder on them, obviously anticipating comments. All you did with your "brilliant mind" was to call him names wit ... read full comment
Chabba, what do you base your statement on? Kofi wrote a piece, stated his point of view and asked readers to ponder on them, obviously anticipating comments. All you did with your "brilliant mind" was to call him names without offering a single reason to that effect. You see, if you had something better that would advance this dialogue, you would have said so. My old man always says, we insult when we have nothing better to say.
Okoe 10 years ago
ALL ALONG, I HAVE BEEN ASKING AND ABLY SUGGESTED BY LAWYER TSIKATA IN HIS SUMISSION TO THE EFFECT THAT IT IS A REVERSED PUNISNMENT TO ANNUL VOTES BECAUSE THE PRESIDING OFFICER REFUSED, FORGOT OR BEEN BOUGHT NOT TO SIGN PINK ... read full comment
ALL ALONG, I HAVE BEEN ASKING AND ABLY SUGGESTED BY LAWYER TSIKATA IN HIS SUMISSION TO THE EFFECT THAT IT IS A REVERSED PUNISNMENT TO ANNUL VOTES BECAUSE THE PRESIDING OFFICER REFUSED, FORGOT OR BEEN BOUGHT NOT TO SIGN PINK SHEETS SO THAT A CANDIDATE WOULD CHALLENGE THE RESULTS IN COURT. LET EXAMINE THIS SCENARIO, I CAME TO WORK AND PUNCHED IN MY CARD BUT THE SUPERVISOR FORGOT TO SIGN MY CARD, SHOULD THE EMPLOYER THEREFORE REFUSE TO PAY ME AS A RESULT? THAT'S EXACTLY HOW MR. TSIKATA USED A CERTAIN PHRASE TO DESCRIBE THIS SITUATION AND SOME PEOPLE INCLUDING LAWYERS DID NOT COME TO TERMS WITH MR. TSIKATA'S REASONING.
Ashawo Judge 10 years ago
If AtuguBRIBE was sincere to Ghana he would not have presided over the case. This is because I feel there was a conflict of interest with his nephew or whatever being the executive secretary to Mahama . But because he wanted ... read full comment
If AtuguBRIBE was sincere to Ghana he would not have presided over the case. This is because I feel there was a conflict of interest with his nephew or whatever being the executive secretary to Mahama . But because he wanted to share in the booty offered by Mahama he disgracefully sat on the case using intimidation to cower the NPP supporters.
He has disgraced himself and has lowered the esteem Ghanaians had for the Supreme Court.
GOD DAMN atuguba!! 10 years ago
Ayewaa Asanka,
Will Justices atuguba and Baffoe Bonnie sleep well after passing this self doctored Judgement devoid of law and facts with some inducement from somewhere?
At a certain point, Baffoe Bonnie ruled to dismiss ... read full comment
Ayewaa Asanka,
Will Justices atuguba and Baffoe Bonnie sleep well after passing this self doctored Judgement devoid of law and facts with some inducement from somewhere?
At a certain point, Baffoe Bonnie ruled to dismiss and then turn out to grant to the same fact.
Is this a "Purjury" judgement, or "Over-voting" ruling ?
If atuguba was sincere to Ghana he would not have presided over the case, but recuse himself. This is because there was an evidence of "Conflict-of-interest" with his nephew or whatever being the executive secretary to dramani mahamana . But because he wanted to share in the booty offered by mahama, he disgracefully sat on the case using intimidation and bullying to put fear on the NPP supporters to submit to defeat at all cost without fair justice . He has disgraced himself and has lowered the esteem Ghanaians had for the Supreme Court.
A Judge's fight for justice , but atuguba is exactly the opposite way.
"The wages of sin is death!"
On the same note;
Will Wrecko Brobbey, Arthur Kennedy , Okudjeto , Kwame Pianim and Haruna Atta sleep well for betraying their own Party for material benefits. Will the above Gentlemen, ever find peace with themselves and within the party they claim to be part of?
According to the Holy Scriptures, Judas Is Cariot commited Suicide for betraying Jusus Christ Our Lord and Saviour for a mere ransome.
It was quite obvious right from the onset that atuguba is a politician and not a judge.
His political statements from day one and his reckless actions to throw all the hard evidence away, and daclaring it as not admissable to the court regarding the pettition was a clear manifestation that atuguba has something very serious against the NPP.
It was so apparent that he misused his judicial office and power to render the pettition irrelevant with no substance by ruling to throw the hard evidence away in oder to find grounds to dismiss the pettion at last.
KPMG rings a bell, when he "wilfully" played to the tune of tatsu tsikaka to throw some of the remaining pink sheets away.
His rulings were not based on law , but on personal feelings , self-convictions and personal political and tribal feelings.
How can a judge at the Supreme Court turn out against the law , become anti-law, and rule against the facts presented to him to rule upon, and thereafter, turn out to make his judgements based on personal political and tribal sentiments.
Is atuguba a judge?
I think, he must resign from the bench and take a political office, since his credibilty is very much questionable..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyGQEy3dDfQ
GOD DAMN atuguba!!
Death curses to atuguba
atuguba is not just "Totalitarian", but also a bad temprete element, insincere with double standards, and a complete "abuser" .
Unlike some of his colleagues on the Bench, he is not a neutral person, but rather a politician with open biases.
A Judge's fight for justice , but atuguba is exactly the opposite way.
atuguba has proven beyond reasonable doubt that he is a disgrace to the Bench and Ghana, and does not deserve to be there.
Atuguba’s Observation
At this point, the president of the court, Justice Atuguba, said he had an observation to make.
He said, “I am concerned that there should be at all times a very strong and truly independent judiciary.
He said the “health of the country must be preserved” and “if we don’t have a strong judiciary, we will be gambling with the destiny of this country”.
He noted that if that happened, he would not be part of it and added “I don’t think my colleagues would also be part of it.”
Justice Atuguba then said that the justices had decided to hear counsel in chambers where they would make a decision on whether it was something that should be heard in open court or kept in chambers.
Before retiring to the chambers, he said, “Ghana is a very solid country but it is breaking down because principles are being broken down almost to a pedestrian level.”
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Election petition case: Justice Atuguba laments, Ghana is breaking down
Hearing of the NDC's application to be joined as a respondent to the NPP's Presidential Election Petition, arguably the biggest court case in Ghana’s history, started on a controversial note.
The President of the panel of nine justices of the Supreme Court sitting on the case, Justice William Anaam Atuguba astounded lawyers and observers when he burst out into an emotional lecture of nationalism.
“This country is solid but is breaking down because principles are being chopped down to pedestrian level. The Court must be strong and truly independent. The health of [our] country depends on us," he stated, banging the table.
It is neither clear what provoked the outburst nor the target of the judge's comments but it appears his membership of the panel is being objected to by the petitioners who are opposing the NDC's application to be joined to the case.
The National Democratic Congress has applied to the Supreme Court to be joined as third respondents but the petitioners, New Patriotic Party’s Nana Akufo-Addo, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia and Jake Obetsebi Lamptey are objecting to this.
The case, called Thursday, had to be adjourned indefinitely after the petitioners, in chambers, raised an objection to the composition of the panel.
Lead Counsel for the petitioners, Philip Adisson wanted the substance of his objection to be taken in camera but opposing counsel, Mr. Tsatsu Tsikata, representing the NDC, opposed the move, stating he preferred a full public hearing on Mr Addison's objections.
Even though the petitioners did not say exactly who amongst the nine justices they have concerns with, Myjoyonline.com has learnt that petitioners are concerned about Justice William Atuguba whose cousin, Dr Raymond Atuguba has been appointed the Executive Secretary to the president John Mahama.
The president is the first respondent in the election petition.
The court adjourned the case sine die and asked the petitioners to file a formal objection with the court instead of the verbal objection they sought to raise.
The Nine justices empaneled to sit on the case are, W. A. Atuguba, (Mrs) Rose C. Owusu, Sophia A. B. Akuffo (Ms.), P. Baffoe Bonnie, Julius Ansah, S. O. Adinyira (Ms.), Jones V. M. Dotse, Anin-Yeboah, and Mrs. Vida Akoto-Bamfo.
joynews
On his sixth birthday, at the height of World War II, Albie Sachs received a congratulatory postcard from his father with a rather unusual wish inscribed on it: "May you grow up to be a soldier in the fight for liberation," read the card. "Looking back, it was a little bit heavy," remarks Sachs, now aged 78. But as burdensome as his father's message might have been, it instilled the young South African with a strong conviction about the value of justice, a belief Sachs has fervently advocated and fought for throughout his life.
Sachs became one of South Africa's most eminent political activists and judges, famous for being amongst the leading legal minds behind the creation of the country's groundbreaking constitution after the first democratic elections in 1994.
"Getting the constitution, when everybody predicted a bloody racial war, was a triumph in itself," says Sachs proudly. "And we did it ourselves; It wasn't forced on us -- we looked into each other's eyes, people who'd been trying to kill each other." And Sachs, one of the most prominent white South African freedom fighters, knew all too well about the cruelty of years gone by.
As a young lawyer defending victims of apartheid's repressive laws, he often faced the wrath of security police and was put in solitary confinement for nearly six months without trial.
Read this: Apartheid photographer 'sick of taking pictures of dead' In April 1988, while living in exile in Mozambique, Sachs lost his right arm and the sight in one eye to a car bomb. After a long and painful recovery, he returned to South Africa, a country he had last seen 24 years earlier.
Shortly thereafter, Nelson Mandela was released after more than 27 years in prison, and work began on the birth of a new South Africa, ending the horrors of the old regime and creating a new rule of law.
Sachs was appointed to serve as one of 11 judges in the newly established Constitutional Court, where he helped write one of the most world's most progressive constitutions in 1996.
"How can we live together in one country? What can the basic rules be, the basic values that respect the dignity of everybody?" says Sachs as he explains the thinking behind the constitution.
"Whoever you are, whoever your parents or grandparents happened to be, wherever you came from, whether you are exalted, whether you are humble, you're a person, you're a human being," he says.
"The constitution doesn't build houses, the constitution doesn't provide food, electricity, water, school text books, but it provides a framework in which people can claim these things, resolve their disputes and that's what we lacked before in South Africa. So if it hadn't been for the constitution, it would've been just total chaos, and most opportunistic grabs from power."
²The healing comes about through the achievement of the ideals for which we were fighting².
~Albie Sachs
As someone who'd paid a big physical and psychological price for his fight for freedom, Sachs says the establishment of a just rule of law served to help a deeply wounded population put its troubled past behind it.
"It wasn't simply a healing of a fragmented, fractured, divided nation filled with enmities and fears and arrogance," he says. "It was a healing for me, personally," he adds. "The healing comes about through the achievement of the ideals for which we were fighting."
Read this: Why mixed-race comic was 'born a crime'
But Sachs was not only one of the architects behind South Africa's post-apartheid constitution; he also helped design the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg, an impressive building created to visually represent the ideas expressed so clearly in the country's new rule of law.
"We decided we wanted a building -- a brand new court, a brand new constitution," says Sachs. "Not one parachuted in from outer space, one that grew up from our history."
As a result, the Constitutional Court was chosen to be constructed right next to Johannesburg's Old Fort Prison, a notorious building whose walls had served to confine two of the best know civil rights figures of the previous century. "We say with a dubious pride, we South Africans have the only prison in the world where both Mandela and [Mahatma] Gandhi were locked up -- nobody else can make that claim," says Sachs.
"And we wanted to show the transformation from negativity to positivity, why we have a constitution," he adds. "Moving forward without forgetting the past and taking the terrible energy of hatred, division, pain of the past and using that force of that energy to create something positive and hopeful for the future."
A passionate art collector, Sachs has also donated several of his fine pieces to the Court. He is immensely proud of the building, where he spent five of the 15 years he was a Constitutional Court Judge, and never tires of visiting it. Now retired, Sachs lives in Clifton, Cape Town, with his family -- wife Vanessa and young son Oliver, aged six.
Sachs says he would never be able to give Oliver the same burden his father placed on him when he was six. He even admits he can't speak to Oliver about the horrors of apartheid.
"I don't want to," he sighs. "He'll find out. I can tell him that there were cruel people, put a bomb in my car, blew me up, wonderful doctor saved my life. I can tell him all that, that he can understand.
"I don't want to tell him that his mommy and his daddy, they wouldn't have been allowed to live together, to love, and to conceive him. I don't want to. It's like putting a burden on him, that we had to shoulder and deal with, and in a sense what we were fighting for was to be free of that lived reality and even the memory -- I'm happy to move on."
A Judge's fight for justice , but atuguba is exactly the opposite way.
The other day in a Bible study, one of the participants asked if Judas Iscariot was saved or lost. In a room that contained two missionaries, two pastors, myself, and a couple of dozen other visitors, no one could come up with an answer. The question was asked in relation to the fact that Judas Iscariot had committed suicide by hanging himself, and the Bible study was on eternal security.
Forgetting about the questions of suicide and eternal security, we all should have known the answer on Judas Iscariot. Jesus Himself provided the answer in John 17:12, "While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled."
The son of perdition who was lost is of course Judas Iscariot.
Judas and Suicide
In relation to his suicide, one must note that Judas Iscariot was pronounced lost before his actual suicide had taken place. Judas appeared with the guards to betray Jesus in John 18, obviously before he had committed suicide.
There is nothing in Scripture to suggest that suicide itself is an unforgivable sin. Matthew 12:31 even suggests that suicide must be forgivable, "Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men."
The phrase, "all manner of sin" must include suicide. So, the lost state of Judas does not really have to do with his suicide; it has to do with the fact that Judas never repented and believed in Jesus Christ.
We know that Judas did not repent because he did not bring forth works that reflected repentance. Paul characterized his own preaching as telling people they should "repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance" (Acts 26:20d).
Judas's works did not reflect a repentant life. John 12:6 reports that Judas, who held the money bag, was a thief who stole from the money he had been entrusted with.
One may wonder whether a truly repentant person would ever commit suicide. I do not understand how this could be, either; however, Matthew 12:31 tells us that "all manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men" (excepting the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit). The sins of people who are not repentant will never be forgiven; therefore, if suicide has ever been forgiven, it must have been the suicide of a person who had indeed repented and believed in Jesus Christ.
Certainly suicide is a terribly unadvisable thing. The Scripture would seem to support the possibility that suicide is forgivable, but I think we should endeavor to follow the advice given at 2 Peter 1:10, "Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall."
There can be nothing in this life that is so bad that we should risk our happiness in eternity to end our unhappiness here. Rather, in the midst of our troubles, we should keep in mind what Jesus said at John 12:20, "He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal." There are going to be many "reversals" when we reach heaven. Jesus also said, "Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted" (Matthew 5:4). It seems almost that the more troubled life we lead here, the more comforted we will be there.
We should hold to these promises, remembering also this word of Jesus, "And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved" (Matthew 10:22). We have to endure through the hatred of other people for the sake of our faith.
Judas and Eternal Security
What happened with Judas has absolutely no bearing on the doctrine of eternal security; if anything, Judas' life supports the doctrine. It is evident from Judas' unrepentant actions, such as stealing from the money bag, that Judas had never repented and believed in Jesus Christ. In fact, Judas was never characterized as being a saved person.
In John 6:70, Jesus asks the rhetorical question to His twelve apostles, "Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?"
The basic nature of Judas Iscariot never changed. He was not saved and then lost. The man was never saved at all. He never repented, and so, was never born again, and he remained the same old sinful creature he had always been.
Paul wrote, "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new" (2 Corinthians 5:17). Judas Iscariot was not in Christ because his old things had never passed away. Rather, he clung to his old sinful nature to the point that he was even willing to betray Jesus for the sake of 30 pieces of silver (cf. Matthew 26:15).
Therefore, the life of Judas Iscariot does nothing whatsoever to erode the Biblical doctrine of eternal security for the saved believer. What Jesus said remains true: "And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand" (John 10:28-29). Not even the man himself is able to pluck himself out of the Father's hand, if he is indeed in the Father's hand.
Did Judas Ever Repent?
At the point that Jesus was speaking of Judas in John 17:12, Judas had certainly not repented. However, after Jesus had been betrayed, we read in Matthew 27:3-5, "Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that. And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself."
The words "repented himself" here (from the King James Version) are not the best possible translation of the underlying Greek. The underlying Greek word means "regret" or "remorse" but it does not necessarily imply a change like the word for "repentance" does. The World English Bible translates Matthew 27:3 as, "Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that Jesus was condemned, felt remorse, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders" (WEB).
The key piece of information in interpreting this remorse of Judas is 2 Corinthians 7:10, "For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death." Given this piece of information, there can be little question that Judas' remorse did not result in repentance but in death, and it was merely worldly sorrow, not godly sorrow that he experienced.
In Conclusion
Sometimes we get so caught up in doctrinal principles that we fail to look at what the Bible actually says about things. The question of Judas' salvation has little to do with principles concerning suicide or eternal security. The answer is in black and white from our Bible, and the answer has come from the very lips of our Lord Jesus Christ: "While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled."
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According to a certain KO,or Kilo or whatever he calls himself,
"QUESHIE IDUN HAS NAILED THE PETITION"
with the underneath quotation of the PNDC Law.
He stressed that ;
"What is worth noting is that NPP DID NOT CHALLENGE THE DECLARED RESULT.....THEY WANTED VOTES CANCELLED but this law nails them"
PNDC LAW 284 SEC 20 b
(b) where at the hearing of an election petition the High Court finds that there has been failure to comply with any provision of this Law or of regulations made under it, and the High Court further finds—
(i) that the election was conducted in accordance with this Law and regulations made under it; and
(ii) that the failure did not affect the result of the election,
the election of the successful candidate shall not because of the failure be void and the successful candidate shall not be subject to any incapacity under this Law or regulations made under it.
Where election is interpreted under this law as any public election.
~KO (41.190.88.210) Date: 08-14-2013 18:43~
Foremost, I would like to know the person or group of persons who made this "One-Man" enacted dictatorial law and the rational as well as the motive behind that Law:
- I would also like to know if the Parliament of Ghana is so statisfied with the existing law , and are therefore, not prepared to "overturn", or repeal it , or make amendments with the mandate of the people.
Secondly , I do not want to believe that the Fouth Republic is programmed or predestined by a PNDC law to enable incumbents to steal elections and get away freely without fear of any consequences thereof, and go ahead to maintain their positions as legitimate public officials.
- If this is the case ,I would come to a judgement, that there is no need to go to the polls to hold elections to waste public money and time.
Is Ghana practising the "R U L E - O F - P E A C E" as appose to the "R U L E - O F - L A W ?"
Should all the hard facts be thrown out in court to promote criminality in favor of peace?
When telling the truth by someone about tuguba`s double Standards, reckless insincereties, Bias and unfair character amounts to a crime in Ghana..then the Country is officially declared as clinically dead.
Is Ghana bleeding Personality Cults and untourchables and despotic elements as public figures?
If pin-pointing out those cruel attitudes and Atuguba`s deliberate lapses regarding the way he is handling the on-going Election Petition case before the Supreme Court turn out to make Sir John the enemy of the State and contemptuous to the entire Bench , so be it.
Sir John said in a press statement that: “As true believers of rule of law and democracy, I urge all to allow the process of the law to take its normal course”.
http://fora.tv/2009/11/21/Law_Versus_Power
“SIR JOHN DESCENDS ON JUSTICE ATUGUBA
… Calls him a Hypocrite, A Joker Who Pampers Tsikata, Scolds Addison” and elaborated at page 4 thereof, that you, Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, popularly known as “Sir John”, did on the 25th day of June, 2013 on a talk show, on Oman Fm, in the Twi language described the presiding judge of this panel “as a hypocritical joker who pampers the counsel for the National Democratic Congress, Tsatsu Tsikata, but habitually scolds the counsel for the NPP” … That the said judge habitually “frowned like a voodoo deity.”
…That “Do they think we are stupid, you sit there and frown like a voodoo deity, when Addison is talking you shut him down and beat him with sticks but when it comes to Tsatsu, when he gets angry, you ask him apologetically if he is angry. Tsikata’s cross-examination was for how many days? Didn’t Atuguba and Co see that the questions he was asking were nonsensical?”
…That “What hurts me most is that man that you call Atuguba , or Atu … Atugubu, whoever, you say he is called what?... I mean that judge, that your judge, that judge that you call Atugu… whatever, he oh he, he is funny”
…That “the Supreme Court had prepared mashed yam in palm oil (Eto, an Akan delicacy) and stuffed it with egg for Tsatsu Tsikata to eat”
… That “Justice Atuguba by his action, was up to hypocritical antics that is intended to lead to the NPP not getting the opportunity to play a tape recording of Electoral Commissioner, Dr. Kwadwo Afari-Gyan’s voice declaring that ‘No Verification, no vote’, so that the President can win the case.”
…That “Any final verdict of the Supreme Court, apart from the declaration of Akufo-Addo as winner of the elections … would amount to stealing.”
…That “To the relatives of judges sitting on the election petition, … If you have a relative who is on the panel go and tell him that you don’t want a funeral on your hands, beg him to speak the truth. …. I know the judges, they will speak the truth, but there is one or two, one particular judge who opens his mouth at anytime and the next thing you hear is a warning. I want him to know that he can’t intimidate us. I have never heard him warn Mahama.”
…That “the whole of Ghana has watched and seen that Justice Atuguba was trying to cheat the NPP, … and yet he is telling us not to complain.”
YOU, KWADWO OWUSU-AFRIYIE ARE HEREBY ORDERED to appear before this Court on the 14th day of August, 2013 at 10 O’clock in the forenoon or so soon thereafter as you can be heard to show cause why you should not to be committed to prison for contempt of this court, for thereby:
- scandalising the court,
- lowering the authority and credibility of this court in the eyes of the general public, and
- exciting hatred and ill-will towards the first and second respondents herein.
m.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBp-1Br_OEs
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xdpWJqeLxI
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX0PHt1HDQI
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Written Address Submitted by the NDC to the SC - Part 1
We published below details of the written address submitted by Mr Tsatsu Tsikata, Counsel for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and his team to the Supreme Court to discount the bogus petition case by Nana Akufo-Addo and Co. challenging the results of the 2012 Presidential Election.
The address has been divided into three parts. This is Part 1. We will roll out Part 2 and the Final Part in due course. Please read the details as much as you can and draw your own conclusions. We ask the Good Lord to richly bless and guide you as you read along!
Thank God we now have peace.Besides,Phillip Addison made it clear in his oral address that all election petitioners have failed in Africa on technical grounds.He warned the petitioners that they can't expect the judges to do ... read full comment
Thank God we now have peace.Besides,Phillip Addison made it clear in his oral address that all election petitioners have failed in Africa on technical grounds.He warned the petitioners that they can't expect the judges to do the impossible.Thank you.
Ekuma 10 years ago
Doctors sometimes ask patients to bring their pink shits ie stools foton examination and diagnosis before prescription. Doctors don't ask for thepassport photos of patients for diagnosis.
Since the end products of digest ... read full comment
Doctors sometimes ask patients to bring their pink shits ie stools foton examination and diagnosis before prescription. Doctors don't ask for thepassport photos of patients for diagnosis.
Since the end products of digestion passes finally thru the ANUS and not the face, the NPP shd have harvested their NONSENSE evidence from the ANUS of the Pink shits and not the FACE . Nonsense.
Bcos of this nonsensical nonsense they wasted Ghana for 8 months .
Look at Gabby Ochiri 'BENTOA's ' face. He looks like a 68 yr old man. He shd see a psychiatric doctor for help. Kwasiato
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 10 years ago
Over all a very good analysis of the three opinions; but Kofi should take note of the following:
1. The constructionist (you write constructivist) approach is the one that depends on the written text alone. The more liberal ... read full comment
Over all a very good analysis of the three opinions; but Kofi should take note of the following:
1. The constructionist (you write constructivist) approach is the one that depends on the written text alone. The more liberal approach (sometimes called purposive)is the one applied by Atuguba and Adinyira. That approach subsists on the spirit of the constitution but is sometimes criticized as judicial activism.
2. The more insightful question often asked by those that use the liberal approach is, "Had the framers recognized the absurd consequences of the wording of their legislation, what would they have done?" Would they, in this instances, have allowed annulment or maintained the results?
3. Giving suggestions as to how the electoral process could be improved will not necessarily lead to the contrapositive notion that the elections were flawed per se. Subsequent remedial measures, according to the law of evidence, cannot be used to impute fault, negligence or liability.
4. The best approach to constitutional construction, as you rightly stated, is a mix of the two methods. If the text is unambiguous, we should go no further to imply any meaning to it. However, where there are ambiguities, then recorded comments, suggestions and debates of the legislators that preceded the passage of the bill should be reviewed to glean the intent of the framers.
As a non-lawyer, Kofi does very well in all his analyses which I have followed with great interest. Perhaps he should enter law school regardless of his age, as I did in my middle age and found life to be more fulfilling.
Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 10 years ago
SAS, I have been on the road the whole day. Drove to Liverpool and back and just got home. Thanks for your contribution. I am in my early 50s so Law will be too much for me.
SAS, I have been on the road the whole day. Drove to Liverpool and back and just got home. Thanks for your contribution. I am in my early 50s so Law will be too much for me.
Mabia 10 years ago
Excellent write up. Critical review of literature on construction, shows an increasing disposition to the liberal approach; especially, at the level of constitutional courts. By shying away from a total rejection of the respo ... read full comment
Excellent write up. Critical review of literature on construction, shows an increasing disposition to the liberal approach; especially, at the level of constitutional courts. By shying away from a total rejection of the respondents case( thus kneeling on rerun) shows that Ansah had doubts about the petitioners case and avoided the chaos you mentioned. Excellent review, sir.
ADWOA 10 years ago
its ANSAH JSC NOT SCJ ANSAH.
its ANSAH JSC NOT SCJ ANSAH.
BOY KOFI 10 years ago
I have always said the Supreme Court will uphold the declaration made by EC boss,Dr Afari Gyan.Npp was just trying to remove Prez Mahama from power by mafia judiciary tactics but did not work.Thank you.
I have always said the Supreme Court will uphold the declaration made by EC boss,Dr Afari Gyan.Npp was just trying to remove Prez Mahama from power by mafia judiciary tactics but did not work.Thank you.
Atuguba must be sent to the Hague for attempted genocide. This is because if Nana Addo had not diffused tension after the Supreme Court reversed verdict, one could have imagined the chaos that would have engulfed the nation. ...
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The 5 justices who ruled and denied justice have but brought not trust in the judiciary system of Ghana. They are corrupt indeed and have instituted great violent in 2016 election. Why the calls for reforms in the Ec? Which m ...
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Immediately after the supreme court verdict persons like Tsatsu, Pratt and the Veep were still not feeling comfortable, why? This is because they realised it was a reversed verdict well orchestrated and stage managed by the I ...
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You and Usman, did you read the review! Read again or move away and stop displaying your ignorance.
The Supreme Court has put paid to Akufo-Addo's nonsense; and you are here saying what?
If he is a man with two balls between his short thighs, let him say "fi" and we shall see what will happen to him.
Is justice only p ...
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Why are you using threats and intimidation? It shows the level of your IQ? Next time argue your case sensibly devoid of the typical buga buga from your ilk.
Y3 NIM WOM FRE TETE. Haaaa
This is an in depth analysis of the judgement of the 3 justices of the SC.Certainly I agree that the reasoning mechanism used by the three judges underpinned their thought process and conclusions.Justice Atuguda and Justice A ...
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I am a Ghanaian and a lawyer practising in England. I am not in a position at this present time to put forward a legal response. I hope to do so later. However I cannot see how a court in England, in the face of the evidence ...
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That is not true of England.The inconsistencies alone in the petitioners case and the lack of witnesses to support their pink sheet evidence would have thrown the case out as a non starter.Mislabelled evidence on pint sheet w ...
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I ask you this simple question Carl.How many witnesses did Afari Gyan consulted before declaring the results originated from the face of the pink sheets?
You practice law in England, do you? And you are confident to compare the structures in place to conduct elections in England to that in Ghana? You compare the literacy and levels of educational attainment, historical practic ...
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Please stop this. You read the judgements and also some of the reviews in this thread. Note that the dissenting judges also did not give the case to the petition and after all the ultra strict application of the rules of con ...
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To justify the indefensible. Even as laypersons (untrained legal minds),we could easily tell that Bawumiah was an unreliable witness;but this judge,inspite of his "clueless" and woeful performance on the witness stand,heaped ...
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Ata Kofi you are an ignoramus of LAW so stop poisoning the 'less learned minds' with your invincible ignorance!
Chabba, what do you base your statement on? Kofi wrote a piece, stated his point of view and asked readers to ponder on them, obviously anticipating comments. All you did with your "brilliant mind" was to call him names wit ...
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ALL ALONG, I HAVE BEEN ASKING AND ABLY SUGGESTED BY LAWYER TSIKATA IN HIS SUMISSION TO THE EFFECT THAT IT IS A REVERSED PUNISNMENT TO ANNUL VOTES BECAUSE THE PRESIDING OFFICER REFUSED, FORGOT OR BEEN BOUGHT NOT TO SIGN PINK ...
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If AtuguBRIBE was sincere to Ghana he would not have presided over the case. This is because I feel there was a conflict of interest with his nephew or whatever being the executive secretary to Mahama . But because he wanted ...
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Ayewaa Asanka,
Will Justices atuguba and Baffoe Bonnie sleep well after passing this self doctored Judgement devoid of law and facts with some inducement from somewhere?
At a certain point, Baffoe Bonnie ruled to dismiss ...
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True
Thank God we now have peace.Besides,Phillip Addison made it clear in his oral address that all election petitioners have failed in Africa on technical grounds.He warned the petitioners that they can't expect the judges to do ...
read full comment
Doctors sometimes ask patients to bring their pink shits ie stools foton examination and diagnosis before prescription. Doctors don't ask for thepassport photos of patients for diagnosis.
Since the end products of digest ...
read full comment
Over all a very good analysis of the three opinions; but Kofi should take note of the following:
1. The constructionist (you write constructivist) approach is the one that depends on the written text alone. The more liberal ...
read full comment
SAS, I have been on the road the whole day. Drove to Liverpool and back and just got home. Thanks for your contribution. I am in my early 50s so Law will be too much for me.
Excellent write up. Critical review of literature on construction, shows an increasing disposition to the liberal approach; especially, at the level of constitutional courts. By shying away from a total rejection of the respo ...
read full comment
its ANSAH JSC NOT SCJ ANSAH.
I have always said the Supreme Court will uphold the declaration made by EC boss,Dr Afari Gyan.Npp was just trying to remove Prez Mahama from power by mafia judiciary tactics but did not work.Thank you.