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Editorial News of Tuesday, 3 July 2001

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Let's review SIB Report - GBA

The Ghana Bar Association has added its voice to the reopening of the Special Investigation Board (SIB) report to address the inherent anomalies in the report as the nation marks the 19th anniversary of the callous abductions and murder of the three High Court judges and a retired Army Officer.

Speaking at the annual remembrance service in memory of the judges at the Kaneshie Presbyterian Church, Accra, GBA President, J.Ebow Quarshie noted that subsequent to the publication of the SIB report and the prosecution of Amartey Kwei, Amedeka and others, a lot of questions are now being asked as to the validity of the report.

"There is a clamour to reopen the SIB report. The people are yearning to know the whole truth and nothing but the truth," the Statesman quotes him as saying. The three High court judges, Justices Cecilia Koranteng-Addow, Kwadwo Agyei Agyepong and Fred Poku Sarkodie together with Major (rtd) Sam Acquah, were abducted and murdered in cold blood by agents of the PNDC headed by Flt Lt. Jerry John Rawlings on June 30, 1982, six months after the violent overthrow of the Limann Administration.